Merrick Family

J. Vaughn and Sophia Merrick, parishioners of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, donated $10,000 to establish St. Timothy's Hospital and House of Mercy to care for the people of the Roxborough area. St Timothy's Hospital is known today as Roxborough Memorial Hospital. It is where my siblings & I were born along with my uncles on the maternal side of the family; William, John & Coll Eugene Gallagher. The land where my house was built was once part of the Merrick Estate. The Merrick family along with other relatives are interred in the church yard cemetery at St. Timothy's Church located across from the hospital on Ridge Avenue.