This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Meggs/Meigs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/283.1 Message Board Post: Hi. Just ran across your posting. I have info, but no source information, that John T. died in Georgia. His son Stephen was born in Tallapoosa County, Alabama (again, no primary sources). Didn't know if that would help. Rumor in our branch has always been that a feud caused the spelling change. John's grandson, James spelled his name "Meggs", but James' son Andrew spelled it "Meigs". James died in the Civil War a Confederate soldier, so maybe they changed the spelling because of that? <just a thought>. Happy hunting.