Charles Ryland Scott Family
Ancestors and Descendants
Person Page 904
Ballard Samuel Meador
M, b. 1827, d. 1904
Parents
| Father |  James Lee Meador (b. 1785, d. June 1869) |
| Mother | Frances Anderson (b. 1791, d. 1835) |
Children with Mary Norvell Perkins (b. July 1842, d. 26 March 1919)
| Daughter | Willia Anna ("Annie") Meador+ (b. 25 April 1864, d. 23 September 1938) |
| Daughter | Sallee Emma Meador+ (b. February 1866, d. 27 October 1934) |
| Son | Marcus Alonzo Meador+ (b. 31 January 1870, d. 9 January 1959) |
| Daughter | Irena Meador+ (b. 15 March 1875, d. 30 March 1939) |
| Daughter | Mary C. Meador (b. February 1880, d. circa 1886) |
| Son | Manning Matlock Meador+ (b. 8 May 1883, d. 12 March 1925) |
| Pedigree Chart | |
| Included in charts - lists | Descendants of James Francis Anderson b. ca 1726 Descendants of John Shirley b. 1725 Descendants of Jonas Meador, b. 1698 |
| Relationship | 2nd great-granduncle of Charles Ryland ("Ryland") Scott 6th cousin 3 times removed of Carol Jay Gilstrap 4th great-granduncle of Isaac Silas Vaughn 4th great-granduncle of Katherine Gilstrap Scott 4th great-granduncle of Joseph Ryland Scott 4th great-granduncle of Charles Parker ("Parker") Scott 4th great-granduncle of Orly Marie Vaughn 4th great-granduncle of Avital Catherine Vaughn |
Person Exhibits
Biography
| Anecdote | Pleasant Meador and his brother Ballard Samuel Meador left their home in Virginia and headed south. They left their father and stepmother on the family plantation near Gravel Hill in Buckingham County, Virginia, where they raised tobacco. They meant to join their cousins in Tennessee.Eventually they settled in Marshall County, in Northeast Mississippi, in the early 1850’s.1 | |
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| Person Source | Ballard Samuel Meador had person sources.2 | |
| Anecdote (fam) | Two other children of BALLARD and MARY NORVELL died in infancy.1 | |
| Birth | 1827 | He was born in 1827 in Cumberland, Virginia, United StatesBG.2 |
| Military | 30 April 1861 | He served in the military on 30 April 1861. BALLARD SAMUEL MEADOR, 1st enlistment: B.S. MEADOR, age 32, Pvt. COB, enlisted 4-30-1861 in Ripley, Mississippi by Capt. Buchanan. 2nd enlistment Pvt. COB, 1st. Reg. Ms Partisan rangers enlisted 8-1-1862 at Ripley, Mississippi for 3 years by Col. W. C. Faulkner. He was wounded in action near Iuka, Mississippi on Sept 19, 1863.He is listed on numerous company muster rolls. This company later became the 7th Mississippi Calvary. BALLARD received a confederate pension until his death in 1904, and MARY a widows pension until her death in 1919. BALLARD SAMUEL MEADOR was a carpenter & brick layer. He died in 1904 in Hickory Flats, Mississippi, and is believed to be buried in Old Zion Hill cemetery in Union County, Mississippi, near the parents of his son in law, MARCUS YOUNG.1 |
| Marriage | 1863 | He and Mary Norvell Perkins were married in 1863 in Tippah, Mississippi, United StatesBGO. BALLARD and MARY were married at her sisters home in 1863, after BALLARD was wounded in action. They lived in or near Hickory Flats, Benton County, Mississippi for the rest of their lives.1 |
| Death | 1904 | He died in 1904 at age ~77 in Hickory Flats, Union, Mississippi, United StatesBG.2 |
| Last Edited | 15 April 2020 |
Citations
- [S5565] Emma Jean Young Clark, "The Meador - Anderson - Perkins Family", Cumberland County Virginia & Its People, Third Supplement, p. 43-49; (http://www.ajlambert.com/anderson/stry_map.pdf); The Cumberland County Historical Society, Inc.
- [S50] Roberson Family Tree, online http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?tid=6729735&pid=-1237071245.