Julia Cooper, daughter of Thomas J. Cooper, married Wallace A. Merriell on September 1, 1883. 

Wallace Merriell was engaged in fruit growing and lumbering.  He was a Republican in political sentiment, and a man who kept pace with the times, but did not seek public preferment.

Wallace A. Merriell was the first Worshipful Master of Hesperia Lodge NO. 120, A.F. & A.M. Fruita, Colorado.  He served in that office for the years of 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907. He was buried by the lodge after his death in 1937, ending nearly 40 years of service to the organizing and maintaining of Hesperia Lodge.

Wallace Merriell is listed as the president of the First Bank in Fruita in Volume 70 of the Bankers Magazine for the period from January to June in 1905.

Hi is listed as the mayor of Fruita in 1911 Colorado Business Directory, Fruita, Mesa County.

There is a reference to Wallace Merriell in Progressive Men of Western Colorado which states that "During the last five years Mr. Squire Lane has been engaged in the lumber business in partnership with Mr. Merriell, under the firm name of Lane & Merriell, and has prospered."

Wallace A. Merriell and Julia (Cooper) Merriell had a son named Frank Cooper Merriell.  

Click here to see the lengthy Washburn genealogy going back to the Mayflower and beyond to about 1250 AD. 

Sources:

1. The Wight Family Genealogy

2. Centennail Celebration 1861-1961 of the Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Colorado

3. Colorado College Alumni

4. A History of the Road Controversy at Colorado National Monument

5. A History of the Sixty-Sixth Field Artillery Brigade

6. 1911 Colorado Business Directory, Fruita, Mesa County