Some list her as Laura F., dau. of Jeremiah Merriman, but her great-granddaughter Carol Rhodes Van Valkenburgh says [Jan. 2002] she was Laura Ethel, dau. of Mathias Fehren King Merriman, supposedly brother to Jeremiah. In an earlier message to a message board, Carol refrerred to Laura as "Laura Elizabeth Merriman" [Nov. 30, 1998].