13 Feb 1859 – 10 Feb 1933
Wife of Emanuel Phillip Cardon
Brief Life History of Amelia Maria Merrick Cardon
When Amelia Maria Merrick was born on 13 February 1859, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, Marcus Devalson Merrick, was 33 and her mother, Sophia Duffin, was 21.
In 1869 her father M. D. Merrick hitched up the sleigh and said he was going to Ogden. He took Elizabeth, his oldest daughter, from a prior marriage, with him and they were never heard of again.
Her mother filed for divorce, according to Cache County, Utah Civil Case files, on the 5th of June12th of June 1870. In the petition for a bill of divorcement the causes were listed as: for my husband absenting himself for more than one year; for abusive language without any just cause or provocation, for taking himself and his oldest daughter as a wife and leaving me and my six children without providing any means of support.
There are two possibilities of when her father died. The family relates that years later (after he abandoned the family in 1869) word came to the family from someone by the last name of Merrick, that Marcus had died in Portland, Oregon. A record was found for a Marcus D. Merrick who appeared in a census taken 5 September 1870 in Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon and is buried in the Halsey Pioneer Cemetery in Halsey, Linn County, Oregon. Another possibility is that her father died in 1882 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California as per MORGUE NOTES reported in The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California), Monday, February 27, 1882, page 3: “Marcus De Valson Merrick, a native of New York, aged 52 years, a widower, and residing at No. 614 Powell street, while walking along Market street, between Stockton and Power, yesterday soon after noon, was seen to stagger and fall in a heap on the sidewalk. He was at once removed to Slaven’s drug store, where he expired in a few moments. The deceased was a well-known advocate of temperance, and was Chief of International Lodge of Good Templars, and also a member of Occidental Lodge, I, O. O. F. and Oriental Encampment, I. O. O. F.”. This Marcus De Valson Merrick (born 1830 in New York) is buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California. Occupation and age favor the first possibility for which there is no death record.
Amelia married Emanuel Philip Cardon on 13 October 1876, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of six sons and five daughters six of which died as infants (four daughters and two sons).
Their first son, Emanuel Alonzo Cardon was born in Woodruff, Yavapai, Arizona on the 12th of December 1877.
Sometime before 1880 the family moved to Taylor, Apache County, Arizona where Amy Sophia Cardon, child number 2, was born on the 14th of January. Amelia returned to the Salt Lake City, Utah area where Amy Sophia passed away on the 9th of January 1881.
In November of 1881 she found herself in Oxford, Oneida County, Idaho where child number 3, Clarence Phillip Cardon, was born on the 11th of November 1881.
Returning to Taylor Arizona, her fourth child was born on the 6th of October 1883. She was named Isabelle Kitty. A little less than a year later Isabelle passed away on the 2nd of August 1884 in Taylor.
Catherine Eliza Inez Cardon, child number 5, was born on the 2nd of November 1885 in Taylor. She passed away on the 7th of September 1887, almost 2 years later, in Taylor.
Louis Leander Cardon their sixth son, was born 27 July 1888 in Taylor.
Child number 7 lived for only 10 days. She was named Amelia and was born on the 12th of March, passing away on the 22nd of March 1891 in Taylor.
Jesse Leo Cardon was the 8th child born to the couple. He was born in Taylor on the 19th of March 1892.
Lester D. Cardon died as an infant. He was born on the 22nd of March 1895 in Taylor and passed away on June 1st that same year. He was child number nine.
The family moved to the colonies in Mexico and in April of 1897 Ernest Cardon was born. He didn’t live long, passing away on the 1st of July that same year in Colonia Dublán. He was child number 10.
In May of 1898, on the 10th of the month their oldest son Emanuel Alonzo married Rosa Vilate Terry in Colonia Maestros, Oaxaca, Mexico. They had 7 children: Dency, Irene, Emanuel Alonzo Jr., Rosa Vilate, Jesse Leo, Faye and Ivins Terry.
Emanuel’s and Amelia’s last child, number 11, was Nellie Sarah Cardon. She was born on the 28th of July 1898, in Colonia Dublán.
October 1, 1909, Clarence Phillip Cardon married Verde Pratt in Salt Lake City, Utah. They had 5 children: Clarence Wayne, Rey Lang, Anna Amelia, Florence and Verde Marie.
Louis Leander Cardon married Ada Diantha Pierce January 1, 1912, in El Paso, Texas. They had six children: Beth, Faye, Caroline, Margaret, Kenneth and Emanuel. All survived Amelia except Emanuel who was born and died in 1918.
Jesse Leo Cardon and Frances Maude Farnsworth were married on 29 August 1911 in El Paso, Texas. They had 10 children. Two of them, Jesse Leo Cardon Jr. and Franklin Moses Cardon preceded Amelia in death. The other children that survived her were Clara, Verla, Seth De Mar, Wanda, Vilda, Nellie, Mary, and Emanuel (Bob).
Nellie Sarah Cardon married George Willard Neddo on 26 September 1923. They had four children before Amelia passed on. They were George Willard, Roger Cardon, Annell, and Gregory Wallace.
Amelia’s mother died on the 5th of October in 1924 at Lava Hot Springs, Bannock County, Idaho and was buried in the cemetery there.
She died on 3 February 1933, in Colonia Dublán, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the age of 73, and was buried in Colonia Dublán, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico.
This life history was partially computer-generated. It is based on the information on the Details tab of Amelia’s familysearch ID KWN2-ZR3. It was supplemented by information from the memories tab of her mother’s familysearch ID KWJC-HK9 and the Cardon Families Organization database.
Dublán Memorial Cemetery, Colonia Dublán, Mexico
The above marker was placed by the Cardon Families Organization in October of 2008.
