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Surnames: Meads, meade, Kiplinger, Ball
Classification: Query
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Researching this family, would like to hear from anyone who has a connection or
information
HISTORY OF DAVIESS COUNTY
Page 509 & 510 Info under son Joseph H. Meads which says:
"Joseph H. Meads was born October 14th, 1846, in Washington Township, Daviess County,
Indiana, the son of William C. and his first wife Deliah Hays. William C. Meads was born
in 1830, in Washington Township, this county and state, and received his early education
in the neighboring schools. He began farming as a very young man and owned a farm here
which he sold out at a later date and decided to remove to the state of Kansas, where he
purchased two hundred acres of land near Topeka, where he continued to farm until the time
of his death in 1900. His first wife (Deliah) lived until the year 1849, and during her
life gave birth to the following children: Alfred D., born in 1844, who was in the civil
war as a member of Company E., Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was wounded in
the battle of Dallas, Texas, and served his country three years; Joseph, born 1844 and
John who died in infancy.
His second marriage was to Sarah Grow, daughter of Christopher Grow, and to that union was
born Christopher, who drowned at age 17: William, living in Oklahoma; Rousseau, a
resident of Kansas; Sentna, now residing in Oklahoma, and Emanuel, postmaster at North
Topeka, Kansas.
He was a practical member of the Christian Church, and advocate of the principals of the
Republican Party, and personally a man who was held in the highest esteem by all who knew
him."