1009. Elijah Meader (1802 – 1853)

Elijah Meader, son of Nathan Meader (1771-1848) [0070] and Sarah Varney (  –  ), was born September 6, 1802, probably at Lincoln, VT, and died, probably there, May 31, 1853. November 1, 1836 he married Abigail H. Colby, born June 22, 1818 daughter of Joseph and Lydia Colby. He was disowned by the Lincoln Friends Monthly Meeting, perhaps for this marriage.

The 1860 Census lists a Dennis Meader, then 9 and born in Vermont, as living with Widow Abigail and her daughter Jane Meader. January 6, 1870 Abigail Meader married Nelson Chase at Bristol, VT. A. A. Meader wrote that Elijah Meader first married a Gove.

The children of Elijah Meader and Abigail Colby were:
2454 i. Dennis Meader, born about 1837.
1027 ii. Nathan Meader, born in 1838.
2452 iii. Hannah Meader, born in June, 1840 and died at Lincoln October 1, 1859. unmarried.
2453 iv. Ann Meader. She married Joseph Colby.
1025 v. Jane Meader, born May 11, 1845 and died December 15, 1935.
– Deloris Meader, Bayport, MN
– Mormon Records
– Censuses
– Alice Meader Moquin, Easthampton, MA
– Descendants of Nicholas Cady, 407
– Chapin Book of Genealogical Data, 1504