In my blog reading this evening, I re-read a post describing the New York Public Library’s Digital Images database. Wonderful site! I just did a few random searches and located some cool pictures.This is a picture of Dr. Robert F. Boyd. In a visit to a cemetery in the area a few months ago, I’d […]
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Over the past week, I’ve had occasion to drive through the Meharry neighborhood a couple of times, and each time I came across Pearl St, I thought to myself.. “that street looks familiar.” As I am transcribing my notes from researching the Merry’s , I figured out why. Napoleon Merry lived on Pearl Street! On
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I continue to look for information on the family of Nelson Merry. I went to the Archives this afternoon and spent a few hours looking up sources. Today, I discovered the joys of using city directories! I’ve not used them in my own research yet, but as I was browsing the shelves in one of
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In my last post, I mentioned that I took a trip to Mount Ararat Cemetery in order to locate the tombstone of Rev. Nelson Grover Merry. Today after work, I went to the public library to get his obituary and I found it! His birth year in the obit is wrong (he was born in
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Over the weekend, I have become intrigued by the history of Mt. Ararat cemetery here in Nashville. The cemetery was the first African-American cemetery in the city. I started to become interested in it because over the weekend I’ve been looking up information about Nelson G. Merry – a very prominent former slave who led
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I have just finished transcribing a lot of content from the January 18, 1907 issue of the Nashville Globe, and I already have over 40 posts. Wow. That’s a lot of content! But, I am hopeful that it will be forever cached and available long-term to those who seek it. Tomorrow, I shall start on