This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kinslow, Huckaby, Payne, Bridges, Meadors, Dryer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HMB.2ACE/1229.2 Message Board Post: These Meador/s are listed as being buried in Hopewell Cemetery (located in the northeast corner of Polk County just south of Hickory Co, west of Dallas Co) as per the 1979 Polk County, MO Cemetery Directory: Meadors: Lois, 19 June 1896 - 21 Mar. 1926 Lucy, 1862 - 1945 Lula, - no date Mary E., 1872 - 1955 Ora S., 4 Mar 1886 - 10 June 1957 Smith, no date Thomas, 1871 - 1948 Meador: Earl, 14 Feb 1894 - 22 Mar. 1977 Earlie May, 1885 - 1920 John E., 25 Jul. 1883 - 5 Dec. 1957 Olen Luther, 1920 - 1936 I am descended from Benjamin Franklin Meadors and Sarah Bostick. After Benjamin's death, Sarah m. John Morrison in abt 1853, maybe in Polk Co, MO. I am also descended from Joseph Huckaby and Mary 'Polly' Bridges, Joseph Kinslow and Agnes Payne, Thomas Huckaby and Margaret Jane Bridges. Many families in the Huckaby, Sentinel areas came from Barren County, KY in the 1850s, some a little earlier. Would be interesting to have a discussion on the board about these early Barren County/Polk County settlers. Alice Kinslow Kugler