James Y. Merritt, Confederate veteran and one of the most celebrated citizens of Orange county, was 79 years old Sunday, and his kinsmen and friends gathered from far and wide to do him honor.
More than a hundred people came to dinner at the farm beyond Morgan’s creek, about 2 miles south of Chapel Hill. Out in the yard, in the sunlight, the tables were loaded down with all manner of good things to eat. The principal feature of the spread was a monster cake presented to Mr. Merritt by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
He has 10 children living and all of them were present except the one that is at college in Louisville. There wee guests from all over Orange and Chatham counties, from Mebane, Burlington and Graham, and from even as far away as Columbia, South Carolina.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925
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