1090. Alonzo Edgar Meader (1848 - 1905)
Born: 1848
Died: 1905
1090. Alonzo Edgar Meader (1848 - 1905)
Alonzo Edgar Meader, son of James G. Meader, Jr. (1794-1848) [1178] and Clarissa L. Knight (1828-1911), and grandson of Moses Meader (1752-p.1840) [0040], was born August 19, 1848 at South Berwick, ME and died December 19, 1905 at Wells, ME, where he was buried. [Note: Both Volume IV and the later notes in Volume V shows that he was the son of a James Meader and Sarah West. There is no Alonzo listed as a child under James Meader [1174].] He was a fisherman and mariner, indicated on his stone as "Captain." Alonzo was Master of the schooner Frank Barker in 1884. He was Master of his father's schooner Cora C. Meader in 1887. He learned to sail on and skippered other sailing vessels.
April 7, 1868 at Boothbay he married Angelia Isobel Hallowell, born September 19, 1849 at Augusta, ME the daughter of J. Franklin Hallowell and died March 18, 1918 at Boothbay Harbor. They lived in the Lincoln-Boothbay area. There were ten children in all. Some died early.
The children of Alonzo Meader and Angelia Hallowell were:
i. Rufus S. Meader, born January 31, 1869 and died September 8, 1870.
ii. Matilda C. Meader, born January 3, 1871 and died September 25, 1871.
1132 iii. Frank Hallowell Meader, born December 26, 1874.
2546 iv. Orissa (Ora) C. Meader, born July 2, 1876 and died April 25, 1898.
2547 v. Snow Raymond Meader, born December 7, 1878 and died September 7, 1947.
2548 vi. Cora Clara Meader, born July 2, 1881 and died January 6, 1909.
- [Jane Meader Nye, Ballston Lake, NY]
- [Philip A. Meader, Newburyport, MA]
- [Mormon Records]
- [New England Historical and Genealogical Record, vol. 93, p113.]