--part1_d0.4331cf8.2621ff19_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_d0.4331cf8.2621ff19_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: AltaMDurden Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 11:05:19 EDT Subject: MEACHUM /MITCHUM and/or SMITH and WINFREE To: [email protected] CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 101 Henry Meachum (various spellings) was born 1766 (probably in Virginia), and married Nancy Smith, daughter of Richard and Rebecca Smith of Wake County. Although we believe Henry and Nancy Meachum were, by 1813, living in Anson County, North Carolina, their son, William Smith Meachum, in that year married Martha Winfree in Wake County (witness Clerk of Court B. L. King and surety John Smith of Wake County). In Wake County Superior Court, in 1793, Henry Meachum apprenticed our ancestor, Nathaniel Meachum/(later Mitchum), an orphan of 13 years of age. In 1798, Nataniel "Mechum" witnessed an Anson County deed from Charles West to Henry "Mechum" (along with Buckner Nance, a son-in-law of Charles West). By 1801, Nathaniel Mitchum, in nearby Lincoln County, married Jemima Reynolds and raised a family of 13 children before he died there in 1838. For many years, we have sought identity of the parents of Henry Meachum, born 1766, died (also in Anson County) in 1836, suspecting parents of Henry, 1766-1836, could be the same as parents of Nathaniel, 1780-1838, or could lead us to knowledge of parents of Nathaniel, 1780-1838. A 1793 Wake County Tax List shows Henry Meachum owned 100 acres of Wake County land, and that Richard Smith (whose listing appears immediately below that of Henry Meachum) also owned 100 acres of Wake County real property; however, we have been unable to ascertain when, or to whom, either Henry Meachum or Richard Smith sold or otherwise disposed of this land. At the time B. L. King was Clerk of Wake County Superior Court (when William Smith Meachum was married there in February 1813), there was a Justice of that Court named Richard Smith; however, we have been unable to determine if this Richard Smith was the same Richard Smith as was father of Nancy Smith who was married to Henry Meachum, above. [Father of William Smith Meachum, husband of Martha Winfree, daughter of Charles and Anney (Anna) Winfree, presumably, in 1813, residents of Wake County.] Any insight -- or leads -- into the backgrounds of any of these three family genealogies will help to solve a mystery of long standing. Thank you. Alta Mitchem Durden - [email protected] --part1_d0.4331cf8.2621ff19_boundary--