T. Thomas Zell

T. Thomas Zell (1828-1905) was a member of Merion Meeting who participated in the Civil War as captain of Company A of the 121st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. Zell mustered out as a lieutenant colonel.
At the end of the war, he started a publishing business and published Zell's Encyclopedia.

Grave diggers found a previous burial of bones in a sitting posture facing the West. The bones were straightened out and laid flat and then Zell’s body was put above them. Many of his family are laid close to him in the Merion Meeting Burial Ground, comprising "Zell Row".