MEADER, family

MEADER, BLACKMARR, POWELL, CHASE, HIATT, LAMB, JOHNSON, TALBERT, FLETCHER

Posted By: Janice Sowers (email)
Date: 7/30/2006 at 19:50:28

PIONEER DAYS-HESPER TOWNSHIP 1851-1941

John Henry Meader was born in the state of Maine, October 31, 1836 and died August 8, 1843. Charlie Meader was born in Ripley County, Indiana in 1839, second child of Eziekel and Lydia Meader. He came to Hesper township at the age of twelve years. Here he helped his father till the soil, until August, 1861, when he enlisted in the Civil War, serving until January 1865. He had one-half interest in the Bluffton mills. In 1878 he was elected deputy county treasurer. He married Miss Rosa F. Blackmarr in 1867. His death came on September 10, 1887, at Decorah, while serving as county treasurer.

Myron Meader was born in Milan, Indiana, March 17, 1841, coming to Hesper township with his parents in 1851. In 1863 he was married in Hesper to Mary Louise Powell, a native of New York. Shortly after their marriage he enlisted in the army, serving until the close of the Civil War. In the spring of 1866 they moved to a farm on Looking Glass Prairie where they lived for forty-four years, then moving to Fair Oaks, California, where they lived for the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of four children.

Tudor G. Meader, son of Eziekel and Lydia Meader, was born in Milan County, Indiana, January 5, 1843, coming to Hesper township at the age of eight years. On January 29, 1864, he married Abagail F. Chase, who was a native of Vermont, born there January 8, 1846. They were the parents of two children, Fred and Charlotte, the latter who later became the wife of John Hiatt. Both children are deceased. Mr. Meader was one of the earliest merchants in the village of Hesper, also an early butcher.

August Meader was born in Indiana in 1846, coming to Hesper township in 1851. At the age of twenty-one he received eighty acres of land on Looking Glass Prairie from his father. Later he purchased fifty-five acres and added to this, having one of the most beautiful farms of that locality, now the farm of Jake Richert. He was married to Abbie Lamb in 1868. They were the parents of three children, Ren, Lucy, and May, the latter who became of wife of Ed Johnson, now deceased.

George Meader was one of the early jewelers of Hesper. He repaired clocks, watches, jewels, etc. He was born in Indiana in 1848, the sixth son of E. E. Meader. He was married to Forence Talbert, and to them were born two children, Ed and Jeff. George passed on in the spring of 1931 at the home of E. J. Wold at the age of 83 years.

A. H. Meader was born in Hesper township in 1853 and resided with his parents until he was twenty-two years of age. He then went to Bluffton and formed a partnership with S. H. Willets in a store. The building was erected by them from stone quarried in the present town. The partnership existed four years. Meader than became sole owner. He was also appointed postmaster in 1878. He married Miss Fletcher of Bluffton.

The last of the Meader children is Lillie Meader-Hiatt, who was born on her father's farm in Hesper township. She married Charles A. Hiatt, a native of Indiana, on February 2, 1880. Mr. Hiatt passed on but Mrs. Hiatt is today the only one of the Meader family left, and resides at Fair Oaks, California, at the age of some eighty odd years.