Pictures from
Old Muscogee
People,
Places and Things
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The
Oran Merritt House in Muscogee circa 1917
Back Row
Jennie Merritt Applegate, Lemuel Applegate, Oran Merritt,
Paul Merritt holding Hattie, Hattie Price Merritt, Kate Merritt
Middle Row
Minnie Merritt Bowman, Edie Bowman, ???,???,???
Front Row
Clarence Bowman, Herman Merritt, Jack Merritt, Fuzzy
Merritt, Bill Merritt
Three little Muscogee boys circa 1912. The one on the right is probably Harry Miles
“Fuzzy” Merritt.
John Modrell “Jack” Merritt about 1913. This is the little brother Herman Merritt mentioned standing on the porch with in his story Tracks. This is also the same porch. His parents were Arthur Oran and Julia Ola Merritt. It is the house where the Merritts and later the Hardys grew up. Another house now sits on the same spot on the hill overlooking the Muscogee Road just where it dips down toward the Perdido River.
Herman Merritt circa 1911
Julia
Ola Mullins Merritt with Herman and Jack circa 1911. Ola was a graduate of Montevallo College of
Fine Arts and painted numerous pictures of Muscogee. Unfortunately, I know only that she painted
pictures of the area but don’t know where the pictures got scattered off to so
cannot post any copies of them here. She
apparently gave them to friends back in the 1920s and 30s.
Probably Harry Miles “Fuzzy” Merritt in the backyard of
Arthur Merritt’s house.
Charles Brooks Merritt, last child of Oran and Kate
Merritt, on the steps of his parents’ home about 1899.
Gitty up. Two grandsons of Oran and Kate Merritt.
Jennie Merritt driving through Muscogee circa 1920. Lemuel Applegate riding shotgun.