0391. Benjamin Avery Lamphere Meader (1840 - 1905) Gender: M
Born: 1840
Died: 1905
0391. Benjamin Avery Lamphere Meader (1840 - 1905)
Benjamin Avery Lamphere Meader, son of Nathan Avery Meader (1817-p.1874) [0258] and Mary Ann Lamphere (1816-1853), was born October 19, 1840, probably in Newbury, VT, and died July 1, 1905 in the National Home, Milwaukee, WI.
He must have been separated from his family about 1848. He was enrolled in School District #1, Newbury, in January, 1849. At that time he was living with Daniel Eastman. In January, 1850 he was enrolled in School District #7, Newbury and at that time was living at the County Poor Farm. During the spring of 1850 he apparently moved, for the Census shows him living in Tunbridge, VT with the family of Salmon Uron. On the 1860 Census he was living with the Lorenzo D. Moxley family in Tunbridge. At that time he was the ward of Judge Elisha L. Tracy of Tunbridge. According to the Bradford Probate Court records:
“On the 5th day of January, A.D. 1860, Present William F. Dickinson, Judge, Benjamin Meader, a minor over the age of fourteen years residing in Tunbridge, in [Bradford] District, appeared, and made choice of Hon. E. L. Tracy of said Tunbridge, to be his guardian, and the said Elisha E. L. Tracy appeared in Court, accepted said trust, and gave bonds for his fidelity therein in the sum of One Thousand Dollars, and a letter of guardianship was issued him in due form of law.”
The Vermont records do not show that a closing of the guardianship was ever made.
He served during the Civil War. A copy of "Declaration for Original Invalid Pension" reads in part:
“I am the identical Benjamin L. Meader who was enrolled on the 22nd day of April, 1861 in Company E of the 2nd Regiment of Vermont Infantry Volunteers, commanded by Captain Richard Smith, and I was honorably discharged at Hall's Hill, Virginia on the 15th day of July, 1865 and my age is now forty-eight (48) years. While in the service aforesaid, and in the line of my duty at Fredericksburgh, State of Virginia, on or about the 3rd day of May, 1863 I incurred gun shot wound of right breast. At Near Brandy Station, State of Virginia, on or about -——(not entered) I also contracted rheumatism, caused by exposure. That since leaving the service I have resided in the States of Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa and in the States of Oregon and Nebraska, and my occupation has been that of a farmer and carpenter.”
The document was dated July 13, 1889 and gave his post office address at that time as North Loop, Valley, NE.
A War Department record shows him enrolled in Company E, Vermont Infantry, on May 21, 1861 and mustered out with his company July 15, 1865. "He reenlisted as a Vet. Vol. Jan. 31/64 for 3 years." He was absent from duty during the period "June 30/63 absent wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg May 3 in hospital at Washington. Aug. 31, 1863 absent in hospital at Brattleboro, sick."
He was in Wadena, MN with Charles C. Meader [0393] in 1880, and Sandstone, MN in 1898.
He married:
1) Chastina M. Scott October 1, 1867 in Greensboro, VT. She was born in Greensboro about 1849 and died October 17, 1869, age 20, of typhoid fever, two months after the birth of her child:
2672 i. Jeurne [sic] Adel Meader, born about August, 1869.
[Note: Volume II shows Chastina's child as Milo M. Meader, born August 1, 1869. Volume V, as shown here, has Milo as the third child of Benjamin's second wife Laura Mitchell.]
2) Laura A. Mitchell on June 19, 1887 at Ord, Valley, NE. She was born at Peterborough, NH September 2, 1868. She married Westly Tenny and moved to Portland after the death of Benjamin Meader. She died November 26, 1924.
The children of Benjamin Meader and Laura Mitchell were:
1978 ii. James Abram Meader, born April 15, 1888.
iii. May Meader, born and died in 1890.
1977 iv. Milo M. Meader, born on August 1, 1891.
1205 v. Nellie Grace Meader, born August 28, 1893 at Glenwood, WI.
vi. Leather O. Meader, born November 20, 1895 at Glenwood, WI and died before 1900.
1206 vii. Etta F. Meader, born on October 1, 1896 at Saint Paul, MN and died on June 9, 1928 at Salem, OR.
- [AAMeader, #211]
- [Natalie Friendly, Los Angeles]
- [Death certificate for Milo Meader]