Related Records

1. 33_2_009 - Cemetery Record Book

   Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book showing burials in Lot 47, also numbered page 47 in the book. Gaston Family Lot Graves in Lot 47 Grave 1: Dr. Clara E. Atkinson, died 1932. Grave 2: Clara Mershon Gaston, died 1934, wife of E. B. Gaston Grave 3: E. B. Gaston, died 1937 Grave 4: Unclear information (Other Cemetery sources show this space for Camilla Roberts Bonell, died1984) Grave 5: No information (Other Cemetery sources show this ...

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2. 33_2_017 - Cemetery Record Book

   Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of graves in Lot 64 as shown on page 64 of the Book. Lot 64 Grave 1: Howard D. Mershon, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Mershon, died 1900 Grave 2: Warren W. Mershon, died 1898 age 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Mershon) Grave 3: Almeda W. Williams Mershon (Mrs. A. H. Mershon), died 1947 Grave 4: A. H. Mershon (Arthur H. Mershon, Arthur Hendrickson Mershon), died 1960 Grave 5 and 6: no information...

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3. FSTC-0245 - Photograph, Digital

   Family Portrait in cardboard decorative frame c.1898-1900 of the Gaston family in Fairhope, Alabama. A family member has written the names on the frame. Left to Right: Cornelius Alonzo Gaston Leah Grauel Mershon James Ernest Gadton Ernest Berry Gaston Frances Lily Gaston Crawford (standing behind Mr. Gaston) Arthur Fairhope "Spider" Gaston (sitting on Mr. Gaston's lap) Clara Mershon Gaston Leah Catherine Gaston McGill From the Fair...

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4. PMG_9053-9054 - Photograph, Digital

   Cabinet card photograph by Pearson photographers in Des Moines, Iowas of Leah Grauel Mershon (1828-1915). This was.taken in 1893 prior to when she and her husband Cornelius H. Mershon moved to the new colony of Fairhope, Alabama. The back of the cabinet card has her age at the time the photograph was taken as 65. Mr. and Mrs. Mershon's daughter Clara Mershon Gaston (wife of E. B. Gaston), and sons Nathaniel Mershon and Arthur Mershon were pion...

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5. PMG_9087 - Photograph, Digital

   Cabinet card photograph c.1905 of Dr. George Alonzo Mershon with his mother Leah Grauel Mershon, daughter Ada Mershon Kearns Johnson, and granddaughter Luta Kearns Johnson Carley. The large Mershon family (origially from Iowa) had close ties to the founding and development of the single tax colony of Fairhope, Alabama. Dr. G. A. Mershon practiced medicine in early Fairhope, and his siblings Clara Mershon Gaston, Arthur H. Mershon and Nathan...

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