0264. Mary Donnell Meader (1822 – 1897)

Mary Donnell Meader, daughter of Edward Meader (1785-1860) [0139] and Sarah Brooks (1798-1870), was born in Edgecomb, ME August 10, 1822 and died in that area December 20, 1897. January 11, 1846 she married Galen Otis Mitchell, son of Richard Mitchell and Sarah Walker of Woolwich, Sagadahoc, ME, born July 17, 1816 and died March 3, 1895. They settled in the Edward Meader [0139] homestead in Westport.

The children of Mary Meader and Galen Mitchell were probably born in Westport:
i. Sarah Jeannette Mitchell, born July 11, 1850 and died March 11, 1854.
ii. Melva Tephine Mitchell, born February 19, 1854. December 23, 1877 she married John Franklin Harriman, born August 4, 1857. She graduated from the Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, in the class of 1874. He studied for the ministry and was ordained a preacher of the Free Will Baptists.
iii. Ettie Gertrude Mitchell, born October 22, 1857. January 30, 1883 she married Alvin Brann Harriman, brother of her older sister's husband, born March 18, 1861.
iv. Almon Libby Mitchell, born and died January 4, 1859.