http://sophrosynean.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/merediths-revealing-some-secrets/ The ramblings of a pilgrim through time, space, and life. Sun, 19 May 2013 19:23:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://sophrosynean.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/merediths-revealing-some-secrets/#comment-450 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:58:52 +0000 http://sophrosynean.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/merediths-revealing-some-secrets#comment-450 [...] For years it was thought that James and Sarah Meredith’s son, James Anderson Meredith, was the father of our James Thomas Meredith.  But this was easily resolved in that James Anderson Meredith died in 1864 in a battle at Lexington, Lexington, Virginia, four or five years before little James Meredith was born.  Others thought that James Meredith, the son of Hugh Meredith Jr elder James Meredith’s brother, was the father.  He is four years older than Nancy and their ages seem more conducive to a relationship.  But, we are unable to track him down and prove anything for certain.  But one thing is sure, elder James Meredith told the census taker in 1880 that little James Meredith was his son.  I guess we have to move forward with that record as the basis for our assumptions.  Would the Uncle (elder James Meredith) of James Meredith (Hugh Jr’s son) ruin his good name by claiming little James Meredith as his own to save the name of his nephew?  I just do not know, but the census gives documentation of a relationship (we all know how terrible the census records are for accuracy other than names of family members and location of living).  (Some of my original research and ruminating on these issues can be found here.) [...]

]]> http://sophrosynean.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/merediths-revealing-some-secrets/#comment-446 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:37:31 +0000 http://sophrosynean.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/merediths-revealing-some-secrets#comment-446 I commented on this a year or so ago, but was just rereading it again today and have another thought. I am descended from James and Sally (Bell) Meredith through their son James Anderson Meredith who married Mary Patten. I have an approximate birth date for Sally as 1806, which would make her older than her sister Katherine. There is a gap of almost 8 years between William in 1800 and Katherine in 1808, so it would not be inconceivable that Sally could have been born between them. This does not help your mystery, I know, but just a thought.

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