 With Carrie, a daughter of Jared and Mary Beebe, he had a daughter, who died during birth on March 7, 1878, a few months before Carrie's death on September 28, 1878.On September 19, 1882, he married for the third time to Emma M. Bateman, a daughter of Evan John and Ruth Ann (née Botsford) Bateman.Merrill died on June 11, 1908 at Hamilton, New York.