Margaret (Hunkapiller) Meador (1865 - 1938)

Born 8 Oct 1865 in Alabama, United States

Wife of Calvin Jones Meador — married 17 Sep 1880 in Union, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Nov 1938 at age 73 in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Margaret (Hunkapiller) Meador was born in Alabama.

Margaret Hunkapiller was born on October 8, 1865 in Alabama. Margaret's parents are unknown, but she is connected in some way with the James Franklin Hunkapiller family; in 1880, she was living with his daughter Sarah Manerva (Hunkapiller) Carlile and her husband; she was listed as a "niece." Later that same year on September 17, 1880, she married Calvin Meador. Together they had eight^[1] children, including:

• Vola Meador
• James Meador
• Retta Meador
• Ruic Meador

She died on November 2, 1938 in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee.

Sources

1. ↑ This answer comes from her 1910 Census, where she reports that six of them are still living.

• "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V28L-2WG : 14 February 2020), M. P. Hunkapillar in entry for C. J. Meadors, 1880.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4PW-RKL : 12 August 2017), Mollie Hunkapeller in household of Thomas P Carlile, Beat 3, Union, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 202, sheet 252A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,666.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9FW-12Z : accessed 6 August 2020), Mollie P Meadow in household of Calvin J Meadow, Beat 3 Concord Precinct, Union, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 121, sheet 15B, family 267, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,830.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPDY-G4T : accessed 23 October 2022), Margeret Meadows in household of C J Meadows, Beat 3, Union, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 107, sheet 19B, family 360, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 761; FHL microfilm 1,374,774.
• "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NS9X-J48 : 26 August 2019), Margaret Meador, 2 Nov 1938; Death, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.