--part1_72.c81465.2692c229_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_72.c81465.2692c229_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Full-name: AltaMDurden Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:19:16 EDT Subject: MEACHUM/MITCHUM and/or SMITH & WINFREE To: [email protected] CC: [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 109 HENRY MEACHUM (various spellings) was born in 1766, probably in Virginia, and married NANCY SMITH, daughter of RICHARD & REBECCA SMITH of Wake County, North Carolina. Although we believe HENRY & NANCY MEACHUM were, by 1813, living in Anson County, their son, WILLIAM SMITH MEACHUM in that year married MARTHA WINFREE, of Wake County. In Wake County Superior Court in 1793, HENRY MEACHUM apprenticed NATHANIEL MEACHUM (later MITCHUM), a 13-year-old orphan. In 1798, NATHANIEL MECHUM witnessed an Anson County deed from CHARLES WEST to HENRY MEACHUM (and BUCKNER NANCE, son-in-law of CHARLES WEST, also served as witness. ) By 1801, NATHANIEL MEACHUM, in Lincoln County, married JEMIMA REYNOLDS and raised 13 children before he died there in 1838. For years we have sought identify of the parents of HENRY MEACHUM, born 1766, died (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 in Wake and that RICHARD SMITH (HENRY'S father-in-law), whose listing appears next in line after HENRY's), 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 their lands. At the time B.L. KING was clerk of Wake County Superior Court (when WILLIAM SMITH MEACHUM 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 who was father of NANCY SMITH, who was married to HENRY MEACHUM, above, father of WILLIAM SMITH MEACHUM (husband of MARTHA WINFREE, daughter of CHARLES & ANNEY (ANNA) WINFREE, presumably, in 1813, residents of Wake County. Any insight -- or leads -- into the backgrounds of any of these three fmailies' genealogies will be very much appreciated. Alta Mitchem Durden - North Augusta, S. C., --part1_72.c81465.2692c229_boundary--