> From: "Clara West" <cfw@home.com> > > Hi Virginia- I observeded your message of 3-09-00 and your reference to the > family name Meador. I am descended from James Meador of Greene Co., AL. > through his daughter Mary who married Dr. Wm. Calvin Bland. I also have a > copy of the will of John Meador and one of James Meador, my gggrand father. > We have been searching for the parents of my James Meador & for the place of > birth, ect. the Will mentions land in Carolina. but not county or city. Do > you have any information on this family. best wishes, Clara West, > cfw@home.com Dear Ms. West, My ancestress Susannah (Morris) Elmore m. secondly @1775 in Amelia cty., VA James Meadors "who d. testate....[by] Oct. 30, 1804....Laurens Dist., SC" (Ref. Doliante, Sharon J., MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA COLONIALS, GENEALOGIES OF SOME COLONIAL FAMILIES. 1991,1998. Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing Co.) They had sons Reuben (d.1829, testate, Laurens, SC), Jason (d.bef 07 Mar 1825, Laurens, see Laurens probate Rec'ds. Box 56, Pkg. 5), and John. Reuben and Jason are proven to have had sons and grandsons named James. John may have also, but the documentation is sketchy. Some of Jason's children are known to have come to Chambers cty., AL. His grandson John Calhoun Meadors (son of Warner Williams Meadors and Nancy Fergurson) has an entry in HISTORY OF ALABAMA & DICTIONARY OF ALABAMA BIOGRAPHY (Owen, Thomas McAdory & Marie Bankhead Owen. 4vol. S.J.Clarke. Chicago. 1921). Rgds., Judy Baugh <procyon@prodigy.net> Susannah Morris x (1)Archelaus Elmore .Judith Elmore x Josiah Williams ..Louisa Williams x John DuBois ...Samuel Patton DuBois x Elizabeth Greening ....Virginia Greening DuBois x Richard Brown Prather The Prathers were my gg-grandparents. The Williams and Elmores were early settlers of Autauga (that part now in Elmore cty.). *Elizabeth Greening's grandparents John and Mary (Whitehead) Greening were territorial settlers of Dallas cty. - old Athens.