Volume 11
Meredith
O'Neal
Skaggs
Names of direct line ancestors found in most articles and extracts are underlined.
THE MEREDITH COLLECTION
Elizabeth V. Meredith, 2009
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Pedi ree Chart - MEREDITH - O'NEAL - SKAGGS
No. 1 on this chart is the same as no.
Consult the appropriate family section or the
ahnentafel chart for the continuation of lines
ending with a plus sign .
4 Samuel (nmn) MEREDITH
15 Oct 1849
Twp, Camden, MO
M: abt 1898
B:
P: Jackson
P:
D: 11 Sep 1940
P: Coffeyville, Montgomery, KS
2 Norman Vernon MEREDITH
Aug 1904
Poplar Bluff, Butler, MO
M: 10 Sep 1922
P: Galena, Cherokee, KS, (divorced)
D 10 Apr 1976
P: Porto! , Plumas, CA
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on chart no.
16 Daniel
MEREDITH
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B: 25 Apr 1820
P: Weakley Co, TN
cont.
M: 2/25 Sep 1842
P: Miller Co, MO
D: 10 Aug 1906
18 Ben. amin White WISEMAN
P: Richland, Pulaski, MO
B: 14 Jan 1800
cont...±....
9 1 Sarilda/Surrilda WISEMAN
D 7 Aug 1870
B: 16 Aug 1824
10 1 Sarah WINFREY
P: Allen Co, KY
cont...±....
D: 20 Mar 1863
B: 22 Dec 1801
P: Jackson Twp, Camden, MO
D: bef 1840
B: Dec
B: 5
P:
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2 Dec 1830
21 Elizabeth SANDLIN
P: Chariton Co, MO
M: abt 1850
B: bet 1801and1803
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D: aft Jun 1870
B: 17 Ocl 1873
D: aft Jun 1900
22 Thomas J. RICE
P: Bee Branch Twp, Chariton, MO
P: Chariton Co, MO
D: 2 Aug 1924
B: bet 1770 and l 775
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P: Crestline, Cherokee, KS
B: 4 May 1833
23 2 Susan Ellen? BAKER
P: Randolph Co, MO
D: 28 Jul 1896
B: abt 1805
1 Samuel Lee MEREDITH
P: Chariton Co, MO
D: afi Jun 1880
cont.
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cont.
cont.
cont.
B:
P: Crestline,
Cherokee, KS
Elizabeth VanBRADT
P: Rogers, Benton, AR
24 Abraham\Abram McCLEARY
cont.
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,25 Sarah TRIMBLE
P: Grandview Twp, Louisa, lA
cont._±._
M: 30 Apr 1861
B 10 Jan 1807
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_ _ _--i P: Grandview Twp, Louisa, lA
D: 15 Aug 1887
B: 3 Sep 1869
D: 15 Mar 1917
26 Ananias SIMPKINS
P: Grandview Twp, Louisa, IA
P: Fredonia, Louisa, IA
cont.
M 8 Dec 1902
B: 16 Feb 1814
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P: Galena, Cherokee, KS
D: 2 Nov 1945
B: 20 Feb 1843
P: Joplin, Jasper, MO
27 1 Mahala Jane STUDDARD
P: Grandview Twp, Louisa, IA
cont.
D: 5 Dec 1913
B: 10 Aug 1820
3 1 Violet Ma McCLEARY
P: Miami, Ottawa, OK
D: 28 Feb 1857
B: 12 Aug 1904
28 J ohn ALLEN
P· Galena Cherokee KS
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cont._±__
D
B: bet 1806 and 1810
p
14 J ohn C.(nmn) ALLEN
D
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aft
Jun
1880
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8: 28 Dec 1842
29(1) Nancy WILLARD
P: Perry or Hocking Co, OH
cont.
M: 6 Mar 1879
B: bet 1800 and 1810
7 (2) Jennie Jeanetta ALLEN
P: Washington Twp, Pickaway, OH
D: bet 1849 and 1852
B: 22 Sep 1883
D: 27May 1911
30 Samuel YOUNG
P: Pickaway Twp, Pickaway, OH
P: Spring Valley Twp, Cherokee, KS
cont . ...±..
D: 4 Mar 1974
Is: 29 Sep 1812
15 Emma Alice YOUNG
P: Joplin, Jasper, MO
D: 12 Mar 1896
B: 28 Apr 1861
31 (2) Catharine GRAUL
P: Washington Twp, Pickaway, OH
Pre~ared February 2008 by:
cont._±_
D: 30 Jan 1922
(Mrs. Sam) Elizabeth Meredith
B: 25 Apr 1822
1720 South Gessner Road
P: Prosperity, Jasper, MO
D: 5 Feb 1898
M:
Houston, Texas 77063-1118
B:
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Pedigree Chart - MEREDITH - O'NEAL - SKAGGS
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2 William
MEREDITH
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P: VA?
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P: Russell Co.? VA
D: bef 1836
P: KY?
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1 Daniel
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MEREDITH
B: Dec
1792
P: Russell Co, VA
M: 5 Jan 1817 to Margaret O'NEAL
P Logan Co? KY
D: 10 Dec 1865
P: Jackson Twp, Camden, MO
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M:
(1)
Mare:aret O'NEAL
Spouse
sJames SKAGGS
B:
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D: bet 1776 and 1781
P: Montgomery Co, VA
3
Nancy SKAGGS
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PVA?
D: bef 1836
P: KY?
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?Rachel
B:
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D: aft 1781
P: Montgomery Co? VA
Compiled by:
(Mrs. Sam) Elizabeth Meredith
1720 South Gessner Road
Houston , Texas 77063-1118
October 2007
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MEREDITH
Meredith can be spelled or misspelled in many ways. Following are some, but certainly
not all of the alternative spellings approximately in the order of the frequency of their occurrence:
Merideth, Meridith, Meredeth, Meredah, Meridah, Mereday, Meriday, Merriday, Meridy,
Merrideth, Merridith, Marridith, Merrydyth and Merrydeath.
The relationships between the various Merediths in 18th and early 19th century America is
far from clear. Many of these early families lived in Virginia and sorting them out is a work in
progress. The one thing that appears certain is that the Daniel Meredith from whom our Meredith
family descends was born in Virginia in 1792. 1
Daniel Meredith was the son of William and Nancy (Skaggs) Meredith of Russell County,
Virginia, and Green County, Kentucky. 2 William had signed a petition in 1795 for separating a
new county (Tazwell) from Russell, but by the time the new county was formally established the
Merediths no longer lived there. 3
William and Nancy (Skaggs) Meredith went to Kentucky about 1799 to join Joseph and
Nancy (Skaggs) Meredith who had preceded them there a few years earlier. 4 William's wife was
the aunt of Joseph's wife.5 William and Joseph are found together on 1787 through 1794 Russell
County, Virginia, tax lists.6 It is presumed, though not yet proved, that Joseph and William
Meredith were brothers. William Meredith disappeared from the Green County, Kentucky, tax
records by 1801. 7 It has not been possible to locate him or his wife beyond this date.
Daniel Meredith was referred to in the Green County, Kentucky, estate papers of one
Moses Skaggs, brother of Nancy (Skaggs) Meredith. Daniel with his brothers John, James,
Matthew/Matthias and William were heirs of the deceased Moses Skaggs. This came about
because at the time of the settlement of the estate of the childless Moses Skaggs in 1836, both
William and Nancy (Skaggs) Meredith were deceased. The estate papers note no place of
residence for the five Meredith brothers, only that they had removed from thatjurisdiction. 8
It was attested to that William and Nancy Meredith had the five sons when they left
Virginia about 1799.9 None of the five sons appears on the 1795 Russell County, Virginia, tax list
with William. 10 Beside William one male between 16 and 21 is found on the 1799 and 1800
Green County, Kentucky, tax lists. 11 Thus it would seem that the sons must have been under age
at the time of the move to Kentucky. In addition to the Moses Skaggs estate case, Daniel
Meredith was associated later with members of the Skaggs family. Besides the presence of Jacob
Skaggs, (brother of Nancy) and his sons James and Mastin in Weakley County, Tennessee, in the
late 1820's and early 1830's with Daniel Meredith, Mastin and James Skaggs are found later with
Daniel in Missouri. 12 Daniel named of his oldest son Mathias 13 (a somewhat unusual name)
perhaps to honor a deceased brother. These facts serve to reinforce that Daniel Meredith of this
study and Daniel Meredith of the Moses Skaggs estate case are one.
Family records indicate that Daniel Meredith married Margaret O'Neal in Logan County,
Kentucky, in 1817. 14 There were land purchases and sales in the northern part of Logan County on
the Gaspar River in 1814 and 1817 in which a William Meredith bought land and later sold it to a
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Daniel Meredith. JS William Meredith Jr. and Daniel also appear on tax lists there in 1814 through
1817.J 6 These could have been the Daniel of this study and William who was possibly his brother.
There were members of a second Meredith family in Weakley County, Tennessee, at the
same time Daniel was there. 17 These were some of the children of David Meredith of Logan
County, Kentucky. JS David Meredith followed a different migratory route from Virginia than that
taken by Daniel, that is, by way of North Carolina rather than Kentucky. We know that David
came from Virginia because his oldest daughter, Nanc~ Meredith Edmonson/Edmiston, says in the
1850 Kentucky census that she was born in Virginia. 1 Two of David's younger children, Samuel
B. and David, Jr., indicate that they were born in North Carolina. 20 It is probable that there was a
relationship between the family of David Meredith and the Daniel Meredith of this study, but no
such relationship has been established.
The following of David Meredith's children went to Weakley County: Nancy Meredith
and her husband Archibald Edmonston, Lucretia Meredith and her husband Charles Bradshaw and
Samuel Meredith. 2 J On 25 January 1809 David Meredith's daughter Judith was married in
Christian County, Kentucky, to a James Meredith. 22 Could this have been the James Meredith,
brother of Daniel, mentioned in the Green County, Kentucky, estate case of Moses Skaggs?
As early as 1797 there is a tax record of a resident, Samuel Meridey/Meredith, living on
the same watercourse (Whippoorwill) as David Meredith in Logan County, Kentucky. 23 David's
24
son Samuel was born in approximately 1785 and would have been too young to have appeared
on a tax list in 1797. Therefore this Samuel was another adult Meredith in Logan County in the
late 1700's. His relationship to David Meredith, and almost surely there was one, is unknown.
Logan County tax records also indicate living on the Whippoorwill watercourse in 1807
were William and John Meredith. 25 As they were not the children of David Meredith, this opens
up the possibility that they could have been two of the Meredith brothers of the Moses Skaggs
estate case.
At least two of David Meredith's children, Samuel and David, Jr., eventually settled in
Greene County, Arkansas. 26 Also in Lawrence (later Greene County) were William, James and
John Meredith. 27 As these men were not the sons of David Meredith, it is a possibility that the
latter three were the brothers of the Daniel Meredith of the Greene County, Kentucky, estate case.
No record beyond his mention in the estate case was found for Matthew/Matthias Meredith so he
may have died before or shortly after reaching maturity.
An 1841 description of a road which ran from Tuscumbia (Miller County, Missouri) to
Forsythe notes that shortly after entering Kinderhook (Camden) County it ran past Samuel
Meridah's place. 28 This is the same place where our Daniel Meredith lived upon coming to
Missouri. 29 What was this Samuel's relationship to Daniel? He doesn't appear to have been the
Samuel Meredith, son of David of Logan County, Kentucky, as that Samuel was living in Greene
County, Arkansas, in 1840. 30 Was he the older Samuel Meredith who had been in Logan County
in the late 1790's? Is it possible that the name "Daniel" was misinterpreted as "Samuel," as this
did occur on another occasion, and no other record was found of anyone named Samuel Meredith
in the area?
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A number of factors conspire to make researching the Meredith family difficult. The area
of western Tennessee which became Weakley County in 1823 had been Chickasaw Indian
territory. Margaret O'Neal, Daniel Meredith's wife, was purported to have had Indian ancestry,
31
whether Chickasaw or not, is unknown.
Records for the territorial period are virtually nonexistent and for early Weakley County sparse. After Daniel Meredith's move to Pulaski County,
Missouri, in 183232 the possibility for research in civil records does not improve. The area of
Pulaski County in which Daniel resided became Kinderhook (Camden) County in 1841. The
courthouse in Camden County burned in 1902 destroying the records and there are no Pulaski
County records before 1903.
Regarding Daniel Meredith, he is positively identified on an 1828 tax list for Weakley
County, Tennessee. 33 He was in Tennessee as early as 1818 as his daughter Mary indicates she
was born there in 1818.34
Daniel Meredith may have served in the War of 1812-1814 from Tennessee. There was a
Daniel Meredith in Pipkin's 1st Regiment of West Tennessee Militia. 35 As noted previously, and
according to a Meredith family Bible, Daniel was married to Mar9aret O'Neal 5 January 1817. 36
Purportedly the marriage took place in Logan County, Kentucky. 3 No church or civil record of
this marriage has been found. After Margaret's death 29 July 1852,38 Daniel married Elviara
(Elvira?), maiden name unknown, by whom he had a daughter. 39 Daniel Meredith died 10
40
December 1865 in Camden County, Missouri, and was probably buried on his home place.
Mathias Meredith, born 25 April 1820 in Weakley County, Tennessee, was the second
oldest of Daniel and Margaret's ten children. 41 Mathias married Surrilda/Sarilda Wiseman,
daughter of Benjamin Wiseman and Sarah \Vinfrey, 25 September 1842 in Miller County,
Missouri. 42 Surrilda was born 16 August 1824 and after her death 20 March 1863,43 Mathias
44
married twice more, but had no children from these unions. Mathias Meredith served in the 47th
45
Regiment of the Missouri Militia (Union) during the Civil War and died 10 August 1906. Both
he and Surrilda are buried in Glover Chapel Cemetery in Camden County, Missouri.
46
Like his parents, Mathias and Surrilda Meredith had a family of ten children.
Samuel
Meredith, their fourth child, was born 15 October 1849 in Camden County, Missouri. 47 Samuel
48
was married three times. His first wife was Rebecca Barnett with whom he had six children.
49
The name of his second wife is not known. His third marriage about 1898 was to the widowed
Emma (McCollum) Clubb, daughter of Stephen McCollum and Nancy E. Rice. 50 Emma was born
17 October 1873 in Chariton County, Missouri, and died 2 August 1924 at Crestline (Cherokee
County) Kansas.51 Samuel, who was a long time section foreman on the Frisco Railroad, died in
Coffeyville (Montgomery County), Kansas, 11 September 1940.s 2 Both are buried in Wirtonia
Cemetery at Crestline.
The younger of the two sons of Samuel Meredith's third marriage was Norman Vernon
Meredith, born 5 August 1904 in Poplar Bluff (Butler County), Missouri.s 3 On 10 Au~ust 1922
4
Norman was married in Galena (Cherokee County), Kansas, to Violet May McCleary.
Violet,
the daughter of John Howard McCleary and Jennie Allen, was born 12 August 1904 in Galena
(Cherokee County), Kansas. ss Norman and Violet Meredith' s marriage which produced one child,
Samuel Lee Meredith, s6 was dissolved by divorce 3 May 1946.s7 Subsequently Norman married
Catherine (Ice) Carruthers with whom he had a second farnily. 58 He died in Plumas County,
59
California, 10 April 197 6.
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This paragraph was removed for the privacy concerns
of the current generations of Merediths.
1
U.S. Censuses 1850, Camden County, MO, p. 337, Series M432, Roll 294; and 1860, p 72, Series M653 , Roll
611. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. [hereafter NARA); and family Bible of
William Meredith, son of Daniel, present owner unknown . Photocopies of tracings made from the original record are
found later in this compilation.
2
Green County, KY, Records of the Circuit Court of Chancery, Estate Case No. 3871 , 1836, Green County
Courthouse, Greensburg, KY [all Green County, KY, civil documents cited herein are at this location] ; and Russell
County, VA, Personal Property Tax Lists, 1787-1819, Virginia Commissioner of Revenue (Russell County). Film
No. 1905718. Family History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT [hereafter FHL) .
3
Netti Schreiner-Yantis, Archives of the Pioneers of Tazwell County, Virginia (Springfield, VA: By the
Author), p. 291.
4
Green County, KY, Tax Lists, 1795-1834, Green County Tax Assessor, Film No. 8004. FHL.
5
Green County, KY, Estate Case No. 3871 and Green County, KY, Will Book 1:137 (Charles Skaggs)
9 February 1815/22 January 1816.
6
Russell County, VA, Personal Property Tax Lists, 1787-1819.
7
Green County, KY, Tax Lists, 1795-1834.
8
Green County, KY, Estate Case No. 3871
9
Ibid. (deposition of Moses Hankins).
10
11
Russell County, VA, Personal Property Tax Lists, 1787-1819.
Green County, KY, Tax Lists, 1795-1834.
12
Weakley County, TN, Tax Lists, 1828-1832, County Court of Weakley County, TN, Film No. 988756, FHL;
U.S. Census, 1830, Weakley County, TN, pp. 337 and 343, Series Ml9, Roll 183; and 1840, Pulaski County, MO,
pp. 199, 223 and 232, Series M704, Roll 229. NARA.
13
Family Bible of William Meredith.
14
Family Bible of William Meredith. The Logan County, KY, location is from Kenneth Reed of Stigler, OK
(1990), and Betty Nussle, 15445, Cobalt St. #217, Sylmar, CA 91342 (1992) who apparently were unknown to each
other and had this information independently from hand-me-down family sources.
15
Logan County, KY, Deed Books 0:76-77 and F:43-44, Logan County, KY, Courthouse, Russellville, KY.
16
Logan County, KY, Tax Lists, 1792-1815 [film oforiginal records], Film No. 8122; and Logan County, KY,
Tax Lists, 1816-1834, Film No. 8123 . FHL.
17
Weakley County, TN, Tax Lists, 1828-1832; and U.S. Census, 1830, Weakley County, TN, pp. 337 and 343.
18
Logan County, KY, Equity Case No. 4-39, 25 April 1814. Kentucky Circuit Court Records (Logan County),
Logan County Courthouse, Russellville, KY .
4
19
U.S. Census, 1850, Fulton County, KY, p. 133. Series M432, Roll 200. NARA.
20
U.S. Census, 1850, Greene County, AR, pp. 180 and 190. Series M432, Roll 26. NARA.
21
Logan County, KY, Equity Case No. 4-39; and U.S. Census 1830, Weakley County, TN, p. 335 Archibald
and Nancy (Meredith) Edmiston, and p. 363 Lucretia (Meredith) Bradshaw and Daniel Meredith; and Historical
Records Survey (Tennessee), Occupant Entry Records, 1827-1833, Weakley County, Tennessee, pp. 39-40. Film
No. 24860:6. FHL (Samuel Meredith No. 161).
22
Elizabeth P. Ellsberry, comp., Marriage Records of Christian County, Kentucky, 1795-1825 (Chillicothe,
MO: Compiler, n.d.), p. 42.
23
Logan County, KY, Tax Lists, 1792-1815.
24
25
U.S. Census, 1850, Greene County, AR, p. 190.
Logan County, KY, Tax Lists, 1792-1815.
26
U.S. Census, 1850, Greene County, AR, pp. 180 and 190.
27
Ibid., p. 180; Josiah Hazen Shinn, Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas, (Little Rock: Genealogical and
Historical Pub. Co., 1908: reprint ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967), p. 113 ; and James Logan
Morgan, comp., Combined Personal Tax Assessment Lists of Greene County, Arkansas, 1834-1840 (Newport, AR:
Arkansas Records Association, 1972), pp. 2 and 7.
28
Clyde Lee Jenkins, Judge Jenkins' History of Miller County, Missouri, 2 vols. (Tuscumbia, MO: By the
Author, 1971), vol. 1: Through the Civil War, p. 108.
29
U.S. Census, 1840, Pulaski County, MO, p. 232, Daniel Meredith. Kinderhook/Camden County separated
from Pulaski County in 1841.
30
31
U.S. Census, 1840, Greene County, AR, p. 146. Series M704, Roll 17. NARA.
Kenneth Reed and Betty Nussle.
32
33
"Early Pioneers of Camden County, Missouri," Missouri Pioneers 21(December1973):58.
Weakley County, TN, Tax Lists, 1828-1923.
34
U.S. Census 1850, Miller County, MO, p. 447, Series M432, Roll 406. NARA.
35
Indexes to the Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812, Series
M602, Roll 143. NARA.
36
37
38
39
40
41
Bible of William Meredith.
Kenneth Reed and Betty Nussle.
Bible of William Meredith.
u.s. Census 1860, Camden County, MO, p. 72, Series M653, Roll 611.
NARA.
Bible of William Meredith.
Ibid.
42
Miller County, MO, Marriage Records, Vol. A:33, Miller County Courthouse, Tuscumbia, MO (2 September
1842 date of bond or license?); Ona A. Willoughby, comp., Marriage Records of Allen County, KY, 1815-1865
(Scottsville, KY, By the Compiler, 1938), p. 3; and Miller County, MO, Deeds S:274, S:275, S:276, et. al. These
deeds involve the children of Surrilda (Wiseman) Meredith in the distribution of the estate of Sarah (Winfrey)
Wiseman's father James Winfrey.
43
Tombstone inscription of Surrilda/Sarilda Meredith, Glover Chapel Cemetery, Camden County, MO. See
photograph later in this compilation.
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44
Miller County, MO, Marriage Book A:335 and the Civil War Pension Papers of Mathias Meredith,
SC6 I 0,916 and WC854,898. NARA.
45
Civil War Pension Papers of Mathias Meredith.
46
Will of Mathias Meredith, Pulaski County, MO, Will Book C:78, probated 28 August 1906. Pulaski County
Courthouse, Waynesville, MO; and U.S. Census 1860, Jackson Twp., Camden County, MO, p. 81 , Series M653 , Roll
611. NARA.
47
Civil War Pension Papers of Mathias Meredith.
48
California Death Records, Whittley 0. Meredith, 4 May 1953, California Department of Health Services,
Office of Vital Records, Sacramento, CA 95899. Whittley was the son of Samuel and Rebecca (Barnett) Meredith.
U.S. Censuses 1870, Camden County, MO, p. SOJA, Series M593 , Roll 189A and 1880, Miller County, MO, E.D.
102, Sh. 25 (p. 172A), Series T9, Roll 703 NARA. Family records ofD. A. Angleton, R. R. 2, Box 191C, Coffeyville, KS 67337, adopted son of Myrtle (Meredith) Angleton, grandson of Samuel and Rebecca (Barnett) Meredith ..
49
The information that Samuel Meredith had three wives was furnished by his daughter-in-law, Violet
(McCleary) Meredith of Joplin, Missouri. The name of his second wife is not known.
5
°Kansas Certificate of Death, (Cherokee County) Emma C. Meredith, 2 August 1924, filed 4 August 1924.
Department of Health and Environment, Office of Vital Statistics, Topeka, KS 66612. Emma's mother's given name
"Nancy" is mistakenly recorded as "Catherine." Also U.S. Census 1900, Walnut Ridge, Lawrence County, AR,
E.D. 67, Sh. 5 (p. 75A), Series T623, Roll 64. NARA.
51
52
fbid.
"0bituary of Samuel Meredith," The Coffeyville (Kansas) Daily 12 September 1940, p. 2, col. I.
53
fbid. and California Death Records (Plumas County), Norman V. Meredith, 10 April 1976.
Department of Health Services, Office of Vital Records, Sacramento, CA 95899.
54
California
Cherokee County, KS, Marriage Records, Vol. T:217. Cherokee County Courthouse, Columbus, KS .
55
Kansas Delayed Certificate of Birth, Violet May McCleary, No. 211-623, issued 15 October 1942. Office of
Vital Statistics, Department of Health and Environment, Topeka, KS 66612.
56
Kansas Certificate of Birth, Samuel Lee Meredith.
57
Tulsa County, OK, Divorce Records, No. D-36050, 3 May 1946, Violet Meredith vs Norman Meredith.
Tulsa County Courthouse, Tulsa, OK. All Tulsa County civil records cited herein are at this location.
58
State of California Death Records (Los Angeles County), Catherine Jane Meredith, died 23 Dec 1996, and
personal knowledge of the compiler.
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9
California Death Records, Norman V. Meredith.
Compiled by:
(Mrs. Sam) Elizabeth Meredith
1720 South Gessner Road
Houston, Texas 77063-1118
April , 2007
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Pages 11-7 through 11-10 from the Meredith Collection have been
removed to protect the private information of living individuals.