Iva Merritt

Iva was born on April 2nd, 1904.¹   Iva's father was Alexander Washington Merritt and her mother was Eliza Catherine Hope.  Her paternal grandparents were John Merritt and UNKNOWN Unknown. She had eight brothers and six sisters, named Samuel Washington, Daniel Jackson, George Wilkerson, William Alex, Bert Edwin, Infant, Winfred Author, John Randolph, Sarah Julia, Rosa Aliceann, Jennie Bell, Serrilda Elizabeth, Mary Edith and Jesse Mabel.  She was the third youngest of the fifteen children.