Mahala Maria (Matilda) Meader, daughter of Benjamin Meader (1785-1876) [0140] and Nancy Newell (1792-1867), was born May 16, 1831 in Pittstown, ME and died May 13, 1876. September 14, 1854 she married Cephas James.
| i. | Frances James. She married Frank Taylor and had seven or eight children. | |
| ii. | Cora James. She married a Gill and had two children. | |
| iii. | Cephas James. | |
| iv. | Lucy James. |