0069. John Frye Meader (1782 – 1825)

John Frye Meader, son of Joseph Meader (c. 1730-1784) [0024] and Abigail Varney Frye (1741-1784), was born in Warren, Grafton, NH on January 8, 1782 and died in 1825. He apparently served in the war of 1812, as a stone in the Meader cemetery on Pickering Road, Dover reads “J. F. Meader, Co. 1, 7th NH Infantry.” He moved to Rochester, NH after 1815.

He married:
1)      Abigail Hanson at Lee on November 11, 1802. She was the daughter of Widow Hanson, his father's third wife.
The children of John Meader and Abigail Hanson were:
1437 i. Stephen Meader, born August 6, 1806 and died in Rochester after 1825, after having lived there "ten or fifteen years."
1008 ii. Joseph Meader, born April 4, 1809 and died in October, 1873.
0171 iii. Abigail Meader, born January 19, 1811 and died March 26, 1852.
2)      Deliverance Varney, daughter of Stephen Varney and Deliverance Lamos, who died September 20, 1863, aged 82 years.
The children of John Meader and Deliverance Varney were, apparently:
1439 iv. Daniel Meader, born June 25, 1812 and died January 1, 1886.
0172 v. Hannah Meader, born August 8, 1814 and died March 20, 1861. [According to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, she was the daughter of Deliverance Varney.]
1440 vi. Sophia Meader, born December 31, 1817 and died December 10, 1887.
1441 vii. Caroline Meader, born November 28, 1818.
1442 viii. Moses Meader, born November 30, 1820 and died May 20, 1893. He lived at Long Hill, District Lever, NH. [not in atlas. A. A. Meader questions the name.]
1443 ix. Mary Varney Meader, born June 12, 1824 and died April 15, 1892.
– AAMeader, #48
– NEHGR, 5:212
– Ruth Gray Meader, Meaderboro, NH
– Coggeshall, Charles P, 76