Subject: Re: Bedford VA abt 1750...Jeremiah Meador 
From: Bill Davidson <[log in to unmask]> 
 

Bill, the web page was good but it seems to fall apart and become 
disorganized with Jeremiah Meador.  I thought it was me at first and read that 
section several times and finally decided that it looks like a section was cut 
out or something.  That has been the way with Jeremiah.  

Your info:
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 

I appreciate your offer and maybe there will be a connection if I follow other 
paths that don't at first appear to be connected.  Based on mtDna I believe 
there is a connection with an Elizabeth Brown b 1776, whose mother is Mary 
Turner, b 1752.  Mary Turner is the right age to be a sibling or cousin to 
Jeremiah Meador's first wife.  Anyway, they have an exact mtDna match to 
Jeremiah's wife with should be the same as mine and come from VA.  Also, 
there was a lot of intermarriage with Meador in that clan too.  I just haven't 
found the connection yet.  So if your Brown research show anything that 
would be helpful, I would be grateful to get past this dead end.

Mary

 
 

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