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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html