The first marriage of Richard Merrick, artist and younger brother of George E. Merrick, to Marion Wallace, when he was 29 and she 22, was brief, childless and uneventful. However, the circumstances leading up to his second marriage were neither brief or uneventful. Merrick had been single for 14 years, when in 1949 he wed Mrs. Myra Baseman Anderson, a Coral Gables socialite and pioneer resident of Miami. She had been widowed for less than two years – but she and Merrick had known each other, quite well actually, for several years. Myra Louise Baseman was born in Gary, Maryland September 9, 1889, the eldest child of Ernest & Minnie Young Baseman, both Maryland natives. On Christmas Day, 1911, Myra married Howard Reade Anderson, in Wentworth, Hamilton, Ontario. He was 13 years her senior, born in Gaines, NY in 1876, and had lived in Albion, which adjoined Gaines, NY his entire life. While Myra’s obituary stated she and Howard came to the Miami area in 1917, the 1920 census
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