Mary,

For what it is worth, I note that this:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janet/Meador.html

shows that the first wife of Jeremiah Meador (Jeremiah is shown on this 
webpage as having been born about 1746 and as having died on  27 Jan 
1817...but maybe this was simply the date that his will was probated, if he 
left a will) was a Rachel (versus a Caroline or an Elizabeth).  This also 
shows that the widow Mrs. Elizabeth Wood (the widow of an Ambrose Wood) 
married a Jeremiah Meador in Bedford Co., VA, sometime after Ambrose Wood 
died in 1807 (I PRESUME that this was the Elizabeth who married "your" 
Jeremiah Meador as his apparent last wife).  This Rachel is shown with a 
birth year of about 1756, so I guess Jeremiah COULD have married a Caroline 
in 1766 and then married a Rachel as his second wife at some later date 
(with Elizabeth possibly being Jeremiah's THIRD wife).

I also note from the above webpage that this overall Meador family married 
into the same Tribble family that married into the Abraham Brown family of 
Caroline Co., VA (Abraham Brown was originally out of Essex Co., VA, and he 
married Mary Tribble).  Per a lot of research, Abraham Brown strongly 
appears to have been a member of the same overall Brown family as my 
mother's Brown family.  A Tribble/Meador descendant named Shadrack Tribble 
(who is also shown on the above webpage) married an Elizabeth Coleman, and I 
have some information on their children and grandchildren, should you have 
any interest in that branch of the Tribble/Meador family.

Comments?

Bill Davidson 

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