0135. Abraham Meader (1773 - 1856)
Born: 1773
Died: 1856
0135. Abraham Meader (1773 - 1856)
Abraham Meader, son of Daniel Harvey Meader (1749-1819) [0050] and Jerusha Wormwood (1751-1843), was born in Kennebunk, ME March 25, 1773 and died, probably in Ellsworth, ME, August 3, 1856, in his 84th year. Probably in 1793 he married Sally Allen, born in 1778. The 1850 Census of Hancock County gives his age as 70 and hers as 77. They settled in Ellsworth. Some of their children intermarried with Nova Scotians and settled in Ellsworth and adjacent towns. In the first part of the nineteenth century, Ellsworth was the second largest lumber shipping port in the world.
The children of Abraham Meader and Sally Allen were:
0260 i. Daniel Meader, born in 1794.
0261 ii. Amos Allen Meader, born on November 12, 1796 and died April 13, 1876.
1589 iii. Susan Meader, born in 1799. She married Francis Gasper and settled in Surrey, Hancock, Maine.
1590 iv. Sarah Meader, born in 1801. She married William Young.
1591 v. Temperance Meader, born in 1804. She married Patrick Langdon, and they settled in Ellsworth.
0262 vi. Allen Meader, born in 1810.
1592 vii. Olive Meader, born in 1813. She married Greenleaf Stackpole, and they settled in Ellsworth.
1593 viii. James Meader, born in 1813 [Twin?]. He married Jane Blaisdell.
1194 ix. Abraham Meader, born in 1822. He married Sarah Carter, and they settled in Ellsworth.
- [AAMeader, #102]
- [WGMeader, 74]
- [Deloris Meader, Bayport, MN]