26/06/2025
Let's toast Sophia with a glass of Sophia's Sunrise
TBT: Happy Birthday Sophia Spencer Willson Merritt! When Sophia Spencer Wilson was born on June 26, 1805, in New York, her father, Lewis, was 29, and her mother, Dorcas, was 27. She married Shubal Scudder Merritt on June 26, 1831, in Madison, New York. Sophia had 8 siblings: Rudolphus, Louisa, James, Hiram, Jared, Mary Ann and Dorcas. Sophia and Shubal had three children Louis, Phoebe and Cordelia. She died on March 27, 1864, in Somerset, New York, at the age of 58, and was buried there. Want to know more? Stop in for a visit