Wear your tartan on April 6 . . .
Thanks for the message and the explanations.
In partial answer to your comment quoted below, I have seen the Summers
County History in several libraries. I''ve never looked specifically for
Kesiah Meadows Cales. I'll put it on my list for whenever I go to
Washington or just to the local LA library or the LDS Temple library. If
there's truth to the story that she lived to 101, she should be in the 1900
and 1910 censuses - Giles, VA, or Monroe or Summers, WV.
True. I haven't seen
that, but I have seen the alleged obit in the S Co
book.
Incidentally, Kesiah's children were surnamed Kales in the 1850 census and
Elizabeth (I presume it was her living as a 15 year old domestic on a Giles
County farm next to the one where Kesiah was a "domestic") was surnamed
Meadows in 1860. I haven't looked for a William H. Meadows or Cales/Kales in
the 1860 census of Giles or Monroe or other WV county. Te only other child
of Kesiah's I found is the Josephine
Meadows living with her in 1860.
I don't have the census docs here to check,
but as I recall her mother was
in at least two of them . . .judging by the age difference. And after 1850,
in the ones I saw, she went back to Meadows as her surname. I'm speaking
from memory here . . .I don't have the docs.