No record has been found indicaing that Mary Millus Merryman was married to Jewell Ruth Merryman's father. Jewell was born in 1906, after the death of Mary Merryman's husband Walter Merryman in 1904. Jewell was given her mother's current surname of Merryman. Her birth record reports no name, but only "Illigetimate [sic] Child."