Joseph Wiston Merrill was the eldest of six children born to Samuel Merrill & his wife, Martha Wiston. He was born in Nantwich, County Chestershire England in 1832. He came with his family to Painesville Ohio, & went with them to Ontario Canada. Joseph was a Methodist Minister & in 1880 was sent to the plains of Lancaster County Nebraska. On a missionary call he went to Colorado Springs Colorado in 1896 & died there. I've no idea where exactly he's buried, nor if he even has a gravestone. This is a family picture handed down to me from my grandmother, Hazel Alice Merrill. I am now in possession of the original photograph.