Merrot Cave married Fannie Geary on June 23, 1872 in Pettis County, Missouri
Merritt H. Cave married Jennie Swisher October 16, 1877 in Brown County
Illinois
He is found residing in Butler and St. Clair County Missouri in the 1860
and 1880 Census.
Meritt H. Cave married Mary Ann Earles on May 14, 1861 in St. Clair County,
Missouri. (The Merrit H. Cave who married Jennie Swisher would have only
been
about 11 in 1861, so was it his father who may have remarried?)
Merritt H. Cave married Catherine Rush b 1817, on June 21, 1835 in Monroe
County
Missouri. Are these the parents of Meritt H. Cave who married Jennie
Swisher,
and who may have remarried to Mary Ann Earles in 1861?)
Merit Cave married Mary Ann Duncan on March 18, 1874 in Hickory County
Missouri
Here is the problem. The Meritt H. Cave who married Jennie Swisher in
Brown County in 1877 can not help me find their parents. The original
marriage certificate is not at the Court House, but is only found in the
marriage record books.
The Census of 1860 and 1880 of Butler County and St. Clair County Missouri
leads me to believe that Merritt H. Cave who married Catherine Rush are the
parents of Merit H. Cave who married Jennie Swisher. But that leaves me with
the huge question about all these Merit Cave individuals who married within
that time period.
So what I am hoping and praying for is that somebody on the lists has
researched this area of Missouri and might have some bit of missing
information that will help me.
If you have a missing link to a Cave family line in the Midwest, you
might very well find it within this area.
Thomas