This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: susanaldridge2000 Surnames: Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.coosa/1857.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Moses Meadows signed the marriage bond for my ancestor- I have a copy. Her name was Mary Ann Elizabeth Meadows and she was the daughter of Stephen "Steve" who died of yellow fever. She grew up with Ransom Meadows her grandfather. Ransom went to Mt. Miegs, east of Montgomery, Alabama about 1816/17. Then, he went to Autauga, thirdly to Lowndesboro about 1819, then finally in 1840s to Alexander City, Tallapoosa after 3 of his boys died of fever- Stephen, Tom, and Jerry. 1850 Tallapoosa , AL 12 Dec House 1376 Ransom Meadows NOT INDEXED Runtsum Maddows 63 $4000 farmer NC Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1786 Sarah 59 GA Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 17 91 Miles 16 GA Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1834 Alabama John W. 7 GA Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1843 Alabama (grandson- Gilbert´s son by a 1st marriage to Martha Matilda Snowden) 1860 Tallapoosa AL Ransom Meadows Western Division, Tallapoosa, AL 73 1786 North Carolina Male Sarah Meadows Western Division, Tallapoosa, AL 70 1789 Georgia Female Mary Sanders Western Division, Tallapoosa, AL 50 1809 Georgia Female Noly Sanders Western Division, Tallapoosa, AL 35 1824 Georgia Female >From an undated newspaper clipping: "Ransom was a man who believed in "making arrangements," undoubtedly a long range planner. When the time came to settle in his final resting place, there was already constructed and waiting a sturdy, stone mausoleum. Time and the elements and some vandalism have taken their toll on the pre-1800 structure, but it is still in good shape in a wooded area about one-quarter mile off Elkahatchee Road, three miles from Alexander City, Alabama, near the old Crow place. In this self-styled mausoleum are the bodies of Ransom and his wife Sarah. Ransom's son William and daughter-in-law are also said to be buried there. Sometime between 1830 and 1840, Ransom and all of his living sons except William left Lowndesboro and went to Tallapoosa Co. in the face of malaria and yellow fever epidemics. It is said William out lived all of those who left him behind in Lowndes County. Isham, Jr. also remained in Lowndes Co. and died there. Ransom was the son of Isham, born in 1765 in Virginia, and the grandson of another Isham Meadows, who was named for the Bermuda Hundred settlement in Virginia, founded in 1649." Marker at mausoleum: "In memory of RANSOM MEADOWS born in Warren County N. Carolina Dec. 25th, 1786 Married Sarah Stephens Feb. 4th, 1808 died April 2nd, 1863 aged 76 years, 1 month and 7 days." >From Evelyn Justice, August 1967: "My grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Meadows Justice, told the story that she visited at Ransom Meadows's home many times when she was a child. She said he owned about 4,000 acres of land and 200 slaves. It took fifteen years to build the house for the sepulchre, and was built on a large smooth rock. The cement was made of wood ashes, salt and water. Ransom begged his wife, Sarah, for several years to be buried there with him and she refused for a long time. Finally, shortly before he died, she promised him she would be buried there and this made him very happy. A daughter, Frances, was also buried there. For several years the family could go into the sepulchre and view the bodies. But a few years later someone broke in and broke the glass and stole the jewelry from the bodies then the tomb had to be sealed." Ransom was not her father, but probably grandfather. This could be Sarah´s family- Household: 1880 Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace Warren JUSTICE Self M Male W 30 AL Farmer GA AL Sarah H. JUSTICE Wife M Female W 33 AL Keeping House AL AL (is this Sarah H. Meadows daughter of Gilbert Meadows- b 11 SEP 1846 in Tallapoosa?) Willie E. JUSTICE Son S Male W 10 AL Work On Farm AL AL Isac C. JUSTICE Son S Male W 6 AL AL AL Ona JUSTICE Dau S Female W 4 AL AL AL Robert A. JUSTICE Son S Male W 3 AL AL AL Lena JUSTICE Dau S Female W 5M AL AL AL __________________________________ Source Information: Census Place Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama Nixburg is where the Hardys lived who married so many Meadows family members from Tallapoosa. 1850 Tallapoosa , AL census 12th day of Dec ( days after Ransom´s birthday) House 1375 Gilbert Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa , AL abt 1818 Al Rebecca Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa , AL abt 1827 Sarah H Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa , AL abt 1846 Al James R Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa , AL abt 1848 Al Martha A Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa , AL abt 1839 Alabama Here is what I have. A newspaper announcement referring to the below transcribed court paper from 1873 is attached. Billy Parker found that in Alabama just this month. After Ransom Meadow´s widow´s death, the remaining property was sold. A Petition was filed in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, 18 January 1873, by Gilbert Meadows. To the Hon. Allen D. Sturdevant, Judge of the Probate for said county: Gilbert Meadows, a resident citizen of said county over age twenty-one years. He stated that Ransom Meadows, late of said county, decd., died owning 352 acres off the west side of Section 20, Township 22, Range 21, in said county, with other lands. After the death of Ransom Meadows, the said lands above were set apart as the dower of the widow of Ransom, Sarah Meadows, who has since departed this life 3 November 1872 leaving real estate unadministered. Petition further states that the following named persons are the children and heirs at law of Ransom Meadows: (1) Mary Dick over 21 years old and resides in Pickens(?) County, Alabama; (2) William Meadows over 21 years old and resides in Lowndes County, Alabama; (3) adix Elias Meadows over 21 years old and resides in Pike [Polk] County, Texas; (4) Moses Meadows of lawfu! l age and resides in Coosa County, Alabama; (5) adix Elizabeth Bankston over 21 years of age and resides somewhere in the State of Georgia, but petitioner is not informed as to her county; (6) Milas Meadows over 21 years residing in Coosa County, Alabama; (7) Stephen Meadows who is now decd., leaving surviving him Mary Hardey who is of lawful age and resides in Coosa County, Alabama; (8) Martha Farris who is also decd., leaving surviving her June Boss(?) and Francis Farris all of whom are of lawful age and reside in Coosa County, Alabama; (9) Sarah Ogletree who died leaving surviving her John & Thomas Ogletree over the age of 21 years - John resides in said county and state, Thomas having died last resided in Coosa County, Alabama leaving surviving him Daniel, Sidney, and Elizabeth Ogletree all under fourteen years of age; (10) Petitioner Gilbert Meadows who is of lawful age and residing in said county and state. Petitioner shows that all the above mentioned heirs at law &! children of Ransom Meadows are joint owners and tenants in common in said lands above described and have each a one tenth interest in said lands. Lands cannot be equitably & fairly divided without a sale of same. Henry A. Garrett is guardian ad litem for the minors in this petition. Transcribed by Russell Henderson from the original. Children of Ransom Meadows and Sarah Stephens: i. Sarah Meadows, born circa 1810, Greene County, Georgia, died September 1836 Georgia, married 30 January 1832, Lowndes County, Alabama, to Asbury Ogletree. Ogletree was born 18 November 1811 in Wilkes Co., GA, and died 23 April 1884 in Taliaferro Co., GA son of Littleton Ogletree and Sarah Thompson. He married (2) Martha Thompson on 21 September 1837 in Georgia Children by Sarah Meadows 1. John R.M. OGLETREE MAR 1835 in Taliaferro Co. GA 2. Thomas R. OGLETREE who had children Daniel, Sidney and Elizabeth Frances Ogletree b: 7 DEC 1861. Thomas died by jan 18, 1873. ii. Martha D. "Patsy" Meadows, born circa 1812, Greene County, Georgia, died before 1873, married 2 December 1832, Lowndes County, Alabama, to Samuel Farris, born circa 1805. They lived in Lowndes County, in 1850, and 1860 with her brother William Meadows. Children 1. Samuel R FARRIS b: 1834 2. Sarah Jane FARRIS b: 18 JAN 1835 in AL 3. Mordecai FARRIS b: 1838 4. Cass Farris iii. Stephen Meadows, born circa 1813, died before 1850 census --from 1840 Lowndes he is born between 1811 and 1820. Family stories relate that he and his 2 brothers Tom and Gerry died with fever, causing his father to leave the lower swamp lands of Lowndes and seek land more north, moving to Tallapoosa Co across the river from the Hardy family in Nixburg, Coosa Cowhich he had known in Lowndes. His only child was Mary Ann Elizabeth Meadows who married 1st Robert W. Hardy about 1848 and had 3 sons by him. After he died she married his older brother William Allan Lansing Hardy and had 10 more children. iv. Mary Meadows, born circa 1809-15, married 23 August 1836-marriage license at Lowndes Cty Courthouse, to Robert L. Dick born in GA, went to AL in the 1830's (land records). Their first two children, Martha and Sarah F. were born in AL. They moved to Union Parish, LA sometime prior to the birth of Ransom Meadows Dick who was born Sept. 24, 1840 in Union Parish. Robert acquired land in Union Parish, farmed and was somewhat influential in the affairs of Union Parish - served on a Police Jury several time, responsible for directing the placement of several roads and bridges in the Parish. Robert was a substantial slave owner according to slave schedules in the county. Family stories (principally from Robert L. Dick's grandson, Robert Ransom Dick who lived and died in AL) is that Robert L. left his family sometime prior to 1860, giving his wife thousands of dollars in gold and 30 slaves to sustain herself and the children. He was in Zandt County, Tx, 1860, showing R.L. Dick! , age 51, born GA, listed with William Lauderdale family. Martha and Sarah stayed in Union Parish, but Mary took her young son, Ransom Meadows Dick back to AL to live near her Meadows family. She may have remarried to a Sanders. A woman named Mary Sanders is living with Ransom and has $5000. House 1477 10 September page 219 Ransom Meadows 73 1786 NC Real Estate $56,680 per. prop. $103,000 Sarah Meadows 70 1789 Georgia Mary Sanders 50 1809 Georgia per. property $5000 Noly Sanders 35 1824 Georgia Ransom Meadows Dick served in the Confederate Calvary (military records), then married Nancy Browning Bankston Coosa Co in 1865. She was the daughter of Nancy Browning Hardy Bankston who was the the mother of John B. Hardy who married Elizabeth Jane Meadows. Nancy Browning Hardy Bankston was also the mother of Mary Ann Elizabeth Hardy who married Milous Meadows and she was the mother of Robert W. Hardy and William Allan Lansing Hardy who both married Mary Ann Elizabeth Meadows, daughter of Stephen Meadows. So 4 of nancy peebles Browning Hardy Bankston´s children married 3 of Ransom´s children and her last child married Ransom Meadows`grandson. v. Gilbert Meadows, born 9 December 1818, Alabama, died 26 July 1902, testate, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, married 6 June 1844, Coosa County, Alabama, Rebecca Eden, born circa 1827. They lived in Tallapoosa County, in 1850 and 1860. Gilbert's will was made 23 June 1902, Tallapoosa County. He left his property to his daughters, Martha A. and Rebecca J. Meadows. Executor was son-in-law, B. W. Richardson. Witnesses: H. H. Milner, D. R. Meadows. 1st married Martha Matilda Snowden Abt. 1842, 2nd married Rebecca Eden daughter of Rev. James G. Eden and wife Harriett on 6 June 1844 in Coosa County, AL; born 1827 in Coosa, AL34; died in Alexandria City, AL -member of the 47th Alabama Company C, buried at Fishpond Cemetery 1850 Tallapoosa, AL census 12th day of Dec ( days after Ransom´s birthday) House 1375 Gilbert Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1818 Alabama Rebecca Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1827 Sarah H Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1846 Alabama James R Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1848 Alabama Martha A Middows Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1839 Alabama NEXT DOOR-House 1376 Ransom Meadows NOT INDEXED Runtsum Maddows 63 $4000 farmer NC Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1766 Sarah 59 GA Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1791 Miles 16 GATownship 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1834 Alabama John W. 7 GA Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1843 Alabama (grandson? Gilbert´s son by a 1st marriage to Martha Matilda Snowden?) 1900 Goldbranch, Tallapoosa Co. AL census lists in household: meadows Gilbert, age 81, widowed Martha A., daughter, age 55, single Rebecker J., daughter, age 43, single Elias C., son, age 31, single R. Meadows, grandson, age 9 Jenie Gibson, hirhand, age 29, single children -some are buried at Primitive pond Babtist Church in Coosa Co AL by Martha Snowden 1 John W. Milas Meadows b: 17 OCT 1843 in Coosa Co. AL Marriage 1 Martha Henrietta CARTER b: 1 NOV 1846 in GA married: 15 AUG 1865 in AL By Rebbeca Eden 2 Martha A. 2 APR 1845 - Marriage 1 Justice BROTHER b: 1840 in AL 3 James Ransom Sr, 21 SEP 1848 most all born after Feb.1845 Married the niece of his father's first wife, Mary Harriet SNOWDEN b: 23 FEB 1858 in Meridian, Lauderdale Co. MS.residence Texas 1890 4 Susan Ann, b.14 Feb.,1851, m. james william pemberton 22 JAN 1869 in Tallapoosa Co. AL 5 Sarah Harriet Amy 11 SEP 1846 never married or did she marry Warren Justice? 6 Mary Frances 20 OCT 1852 Marriage 1 Tom CARTER b: 1850 in AL 7 Margaret Ann 26 JUL 1854 m. Richard Thomas MOORE b: 23 DEC 1855 in Talladega Co. AL : 8 DEC 1878 in Tallapoosa Co. AL 8 Rebecca Jane b 1856- never married 9 Jonah Monroe 27 MAY 1858 d. 28 JAN 1935 in Baird, Callahan Co. TX, m. Eliza Jane Tucker b: 19 OCT 1870 in Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co. AL Married: 21 DEC 1884 in Andrews Chapel, Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co. AL 10 Texana "Texas" 14 NOV 1860 m.. 1 Macajah Y. MEADOWS b: 26 JUL 1859 in Coosa Co. AL in: 1884 in AL 11 Hixie Adella 22 NOV 1861 d. Jun 1942 in Bay City, Matagorda Co., TX , m Benjamin Washington Richardson 18 Dec 1881 in AL 1900 Goldbranch, Tallapoosa Co. AL census Hixie states she had 10 children with nine living 12 Gilbert Middleton Jr, 3 FEB 1864 13 Moses Sherill 14 FEB 1866 14 Charles Elias 16 MAY 1869 in Coosa Co. AL vi. William Meadows, born 30 January 1821, Alabama, died 7 September 1882, Lowndes County, Alabama, married 16 August 1842, Angeline Virginia McClendon, born 30 August 1821, died 22 November 1863.Children 1. Alfonzo MEADOWS b: 1843 in Alabama 2.Ransom MEADOWS 18 JUN 1846 in Lowndes Al 3. Eugenia MEADOWS b: 1848 in Alabama 4. Sarah A MEADOWS b: 1851 in Alabama 1850 Lowndes County, AL Census 33 951 951 Meadows William 30 M Planter 1,600 Ala Meadows Angeline 29 F Georgia Meadows Alfonzo 7 M Ala Meadows Ransom 4 M Ala (18 June 1846) Meadows Eugenia 2 F 1860 Tallapoosa AL Haywood PO Wm Meadows 39 M farmer $15,435 Ala Angeline Meadows 38 F Georgia Alfonzo Meadows 16 M Ala Ransom Meadows 12 M Ala (18 June 1846) Ugenia Meadows 11 F Ala Sarah Meadows 9 F Ala Samuel Farris 55 M SC $4,120 Martha Farris 47 F GA M D Farris 24 farmer M Ala (18 June 1846) Edmund Harrison 55 M Commission Merchant total $500,000 VA Jane Harrison 55 F SC Harriette Irwin 16 F Texas vii. Elias Meadows, born 18 February 1823, Alabama, died 14 May 1891, Polk County, Texas, married 7 June 1846, Coosa County, Alabama, to Susan Antoinette Towns, born 29 August 1829, died 6 July 1906, Polk County, Texas. Elias and Susan came to Texas after 1850. As Susan's father died in 1855 and her mother followed in 1862, it is probable they came during that time- ! My gggrandfather Elias Meadows came to Moscow Polk County, Texas abt. 1853. Elias came with his father-In-law Bartlett Towns. They came from Tallapoosa county, Alabama. I don't have any information on a Richard Gipson who married Mahala Meadows. rlovett@claersail.net " "ELIAS AND SUSAN TOWNS MEADOWS WERE BURRIED IN THE ABBOT CEMENTARY WHICH IS NORTH OF CORRIGAN, TEXAS ON HWY 287. TURN RIGHT AT OLD ASIA ON A DIRT ROAD GO ABOUT ONE MILE TURN RIGHT AGAIN FOR ABOUT 2OO YARDS." Children 1. Bartlett Ransom Meadows b: 28 APR 1847 in Coosa County, Al 2. Sarah Elizabeth Meadows b: 3 NOV 1848 in Coosa County, Al 3. twins Sarah Meadows, born 1850, 10 March 1850 Coosa County, Alabama d. March 15, 1850 and unknown Meadows, born 11 March 1851. Coosa County, Alabama; d. March 12, 1851 4. Lucy Jane Meadows b: 26 MAR 1852 in Livingston, Polk County, Texas 5. William Jefferson Meadows b: 19 AUG 1854 in Sumpter, Polk County, Texas 6. Georgiann Virginia Meadows b: 7 DEC 1856 in Sumpter, Polk County, Texa 7. Henrietta Amison Meadows b: 14 JAN 1860 in Sumpter, Polk County, Texas 8. Priscilla Antonet Meadows b: 29 DEC 1862 in Sumpter, Polk County, Texas 9. Mary Eliza Meadows b: 7 OCT 1865 in Sumpter, Polk County, Texas viii. Early (Richard) Moses Meadows, born 1825, Alabama, died 7 September 1892, Coosa County, Alabama, married Didema Peebles Hogan, born 5 December 1833, on 15 DEC 1847 at age 14 years and 10 days in Coosa Co. AL, , died 10 November 1912, daughter of Alonzo Hogan. Moses Meadows lived in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, in 1850. He lived in Coosa County, Alabama, in 1860, 1870, and 1880. Successful farmer in Fishpond area. Married Dec 16, 1847 Diadema Peeples Hogan b. 5 DEC 1833 in Montgomery Co., Al when she was only just a few days 14 years old- Had slaves, many crops, cattle and operated a grist and syrup mill. Large land holdings. Most noted that his dwellings were well constructed. He loved children and was even tempered, kind and generous. (Jim Meadows) Children 1. Emanuel Martin MEADOWS 2. Moses MEADOWS , Jr. 3. Daniel Ransom MEADOWS b: 26 MAY 1849 in Coosa Co. AL 4. William Malcome MEADOWS b: 1 MAR 1851 in Coosa Co. AL 5. John Thomas MEADOWS b: 1855 in Coosa Co. AL 6.M! artha Frances MEADOWS b: 6 AUG 1858 in Fishpond, Coosa Co. AL 7. Macajah Y. MEADOWS b: 26 JUL 1859 in Coosa Co. AL 8. Sarah Ann MEADOWS b: 1861 in Coosa Co. AL 9. Benjamin MEADOWS b: 1863 in Coosa Co. AL 10. Charles Frank MEADOWS b: 15 SEP 1866 in Coosa Co. AL 11. Didema Hogan MEADOWS b: 15 SEP 1870 in Coosa Co. AL 12. Mary Browning MEADOWS b: 1874 in Coosa Co 1850 Tallapoosa, AL Moses Meadows house 1383, not far from parents Moses Maddoux Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1825 Alabama Dedeamy P Maddoux Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt 1832 Al Daniel R Maddoux Township 23, Tallapoosa, AL abt abt 1849 Al ix. Elizabeth Meadows, born April 1827, married 1st 24 June 1844 in Tallapoosa AL by Simson Goolsby clerk to John B. Hardy b 1825 Edgefield SC, son of Robert Hardy and Nancy Peebles Browning of Nixburg, Coosa AL, They had Robert R. Hardy born 1845 who died by 1900 census. John B. Hardy died 1865-1868 according to family notes. 2nd Elizabeth married James Madison Bankston b. 1815 Spartanburg SC. He had been married to Elizabeth´s 1st husband´s mother -Nancy Peebles Browning Hardy and had had one child by her- Nancy Browning Bankston who married Ransom Meadows Dick who was a grandchild of Ransom Meadows. James M. Bankston may have divourced Nancy in order to marry Elizabeth, or he may have waited till Nancy P. Browning Hardy Bankston died on March 30, 1870. In 1900 Elizabeth Jane Meadows Hardy Bankston claims to have been married 35 years, but maybe she was counting both marriages. x. Milous Meadows, born 23 August 1834, died 28 March 1926, married Mary Ann Elizabeth Hardy, born 8 February 1836, died 10 May 1921. Daughter of Robert Hardy and Nancy Browning of Nixburg, Coosa, AL. Milous served in Company 1, 61st Alabama Infantry, C.S.A. Children 1. Sarah "Sallie" Meadows b: 1866 in Coosa Co., Alabama 2. Ransom Meadows b: 1867 in Coosa Co., Alabama 3. Mary Ann Elizabeth Meadows Susan Aldridge Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.