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James Calhoun Meador married Francis Morgan [a distant relation of Grandandy's] (the niece of General Morgan) in Gainsville, Texas. He had the following children as I knew them, John, Rebecca, Laura who died at 19, Susanna Bell, and Charles.
John was the only one who could speak Choctaw. All of these people are long dead. Uncle John used to try teaching me Choctaw but I can recall very little of what he did teach me.
Uncle John had three children, John Russell who died about 1909, Kathleen who passed on sometime in the 1950's-I don't know when, but I grew up with these two in the Indian Territory. A third daugher, Dorothy Sanders still lives in Shreveport, Louisiana and there also resides his youngest son, J.C. Meador.
James Calhoun Meador (my grandfather) had a brother named John something or other, who never left Mississippi and he had a number of children, so I have been told.
Rebecca Meador King had a number of children, all of whom are now dead except Ethel Provost and Edith Jones, now living in California.
Charles Meador had two daughters. I do not know their names or where they reside today.
My mother had three children, me my brother who is county sheriff here, and my sister, who also lives in Flagstaff. She married into the Richardson-McAdams family, hence the name Charles McAdams, and all were pioneers in Arizona. They were Navajo Indian traders and I speak Navajo fluently, but not Choctaw.
Some time back I had a letter from Juanita Meador, the wife of my first cousin, James C. Meador [I'm not putting in the address]
She sent me a letter from William H. White, [another address] who was trying to trace his own family. He states that Mary Ann Tidwell married Joel Alexander Meador, who died in Wayne County Missouri, and that Joel passed on in Fisher, Lousiana.
Any Meador is a descendent of the original Meador Mississippi Choctaw family.
I would like to know the names of my great-grandfather, and that of my great-great grandfather Meador, but can get nothing out of the county recorders in Mississippi. I rather imaginegreat- grandfather's destroyed. However, there is a record of him in Mississippi as late as 1874, but5 I can't get any document on this other than the bare admissioin. This porbably comes from the fact according to my grandmother who did not die until about 1935, because the title to the oil lands was not clear.
Anything you might help me on straightening out the geneology of the Meador family would be greatly appreciated.
Both great-grandfather meador and great-great grandfather Meador supposedly served in the Choctaw-Chickasaw regiment during the war of 1812, but I can't get any documentary proof on this either.
Then on the back of a sheet of paper with Mimi's family tree listing Mary Puline Stelzer as her grandmother on her mother's side it says "Mary Pauline Stelzer's parents. Anna Elizabetin Stelzer- Came from Germany to be married to a man in N.Y. She met Christian Stelzer on the ship (3 month crossing) and married him instead. Christian left Germany to avoid serving in the military servis on ships he was a cabinet maker. His brother, Martin, was already in America and was an iron worker."