0380. Granville Carleton Meader (1822 - 1900)
Born: 1822
Died: 1900
0380. Granville Carleton Meader (1822 - 1900)
Granville Carleton Meader, son of Daniel Meader (1794-1862) [0240] and Betsey Higgins (1801-1871), was born October 12, 1822 in Ryegate, VT. He died at his Ryegate home May 20, 1900. He was a farmer and lived most of his life at Pond Farm, on the shore of Ticklenekkid Pond. He was very strong and six feet two inches tall. He once separated two fighters by lifting them both free of the ground, one in each hand. He was a mail-collector the last years of his life. October 12, 1846 he married Elizabeth Augusta Colburn in Boston, MA. She was daughter of Ellis Colburn and Lucy Wetherbee, born in Shrewsbury, MA August 9, 1822 and died February 24, 1902. She was descended from Nathaniel Colburn, married in Dedham, MA in 1639, and from John Wetherbee, married in Marlboro, MA in 1672.
The children of Granville Meader and Elizabeth Colburn were:
i. Julius Granville Meader, born July 15, 1847 and died April 1, 1850.
ii. Charlotte Elizabeth Colburn Meader, born May 9, 1849 and died January 4, 1851.
0485 iii. Lewis Hamilton Meader, born April 27, 1851 and died May 31, 1925.
0486 iv. Percy Ellis Meader, born April 7, 1853 and died December 5, 1905.
0487 v. Lucy Hale Meader, born April 1, 1855.
vi. Lois Emily Meader, born in Groton, VT September 29, 1857 and died May 7, 1859.
0488 vii. Granville Erwin Meader, born December 16, 1859 and died December 3, 1903.
viii. Lois Elizabeth Meader, born in Ryegate May 7, 1861 and died there May 22, 1864.