0133. Daniel Meader (1782 – 1872)

Daniel Meader, son of Samuel Meader (1745-1800) [0049] and Ruth Hill (d.1814), was born October 21, 1782 at Barrington, NH. [Volume I shows Ryegate, VT.] He died at Newbury, Vermont on March 19, 1872, in his 90th year.

He was a farmer and country lawyer. In his time the country was new and, being a very fluent speaker, he did much as a lawyer in the County Justice courts, but he was not a regular attorney. Judge Underwood of Wells River remarked that had Daniel Meader been educated as s lawyer he would have been an honor to his profession.

He married:
1)     Nancy Ann Avery on April 25, 1802. She was born March 17, 1788 and died February 23, 1861. [If the dates are correct, she was 14 and he 19 at marriage.]
The children of Daniel Meader and Nancy Avery were:
1582 i. Nancy Ann Meader, born October 8, 1803 and died July 4, 1839.
1581 ii. Eliza Meader, born May 31, 1805 and died October 7, 1825 of scarlet fever.
1584 iii. Mary Meader, born May 4, 1807 and died September 22, 1825 of scarlet fever.
0255 iv. Ruth Hill Meader, born May 31, 1809 and died July 31, 1840.
1585 v. Eusebia Meader, born June 3, 1811 and died January 22, 1826 of scarlet fever.
0256 vi. John Ayers Meader, born June 30, 1813 and died in 1897.
0257 vii. Sarah Avery Meader, born April 21, 1815.
0258 viii. Nathan Avery Meader, born March 26, 1817.
1023 ix. William Henry Meader, born May 1, 1819.
x. James Meader, born February 21, 1821 and died August 9, 1822.
0259 xi. James Madison Meader, born March 30, 1823.
1587 xii. Robert Franklin Meader, born April 1, 1825 and died June 17, 1848.
1588 xiii. Mary Eliza Meader, born November 29, 1826 and died December 9, 1842 of typhoid fever.
1838 xiv. Charles Carroll Meader, born October 31, 1830.
2)     Widow Sarah King in October, 1864. They had no children.
– Wells, Frederick P, 278, 432, 632
– Avery, Elroy & Catherine, 413
– AAMeader, #101
– Jane Meader Nye, Ballston Lake, NY
– John D. Meader, Florida