Meadows Cemetery
Transcribed by Jean Bennett.
Directions: Exit from I-79 at Clendenin; travel 119 North to Speed; turn right on Speed Road 44; travel 3.4 miles to the Baptist Church; turn left up Rush Creek; travel 0.8 mile to cemetery on hill on right, up a farm road approximately 200feet. Many graves marked only with stones, no inscriptions. Inscriptions copied from headstones, sometimes does not agree with records at Roane County Courthouse. This list is incomplete as it was done some years ago, but notes in italics state the known relationship to the Meadows family.
Harrison Meadows 1825-1889
Corpl Co., I W. Va. Vet Inf. son of Joshua Meadows and Anna Barger Meadows
Martha A. Meadows 1836-1876 Harrison’s first wife, Martha Ann Cox,
daughter of Isaac Cox and Mary Knisely
Lucinda J. Meadows 1851-1919 Harrison’s second wife, Lucinda Jane Sarver
Fannie B. Meadows, daughter of H. and L. J. Meadows
died 6 July 1880, age 6 weeks
John S. Hammack 1 April 1884 – 2 April 1926 son of William Wiley Hammack and Dicey Paxton Hammack
India N. Hammack 13 March 1884 – 1 December 1946 India Nora , d/o Harrison and Lucinda J. Meadows, wife of John Hammack
Jacob F. Meadows 1881 – 1952 son of Harrison and Lucinda J. Meadows
Emma J. Meadows 1882 -1951 Emma Jane Hill, d/o John Henry Hill and Sarah Ellen Vaughn, wife of Jacob Franklin Meadows
Ernest E. Meadows 1901 – 1904 s/o Jacob and Emma Meadows
Baby Meadows 1905 – 1905 infant of Emma and Jacob Meadows
Hearst F. Meadows 1903-1938 Hearst Frederick Meadows, s/o Emma and Jacob Meadows, married Constance Ian MacLeod
Elaine Meadows May 1904 – November 1936 first wife of Calvin Earl Meadows( s/o Jacob and Emma Meadows), Margaret “Peggy” Elaine MacLeod, sister to Constance Ian MacLeod, d/o George MacLeod and Elizabeth Barker MacLeod
Washington Cox 6 June 1834 – 15 November 1901 parents of Jacob Cox,
Rachael V. Cox 28 January 1843 – 2 October 1898
Jacob M. Cox 12 June 1865 – 19 June 1902 parents of Leota Cox
Maggie Cox 30 March 1866 – 7 January 1939
Roy Cox 26 September 1890 – 13 May 1951 brother of Leota Cox
Della Cox 3 October 1888 – 14 May 1978
George Washington Meadows 1877 – 1964 s/o Harrison and Lucinda Meadows
Leota Meadows 1888 – 1964 “Odie” d/o Jacob and Maggie Cox
Ruby Meadows 27 December 1912 – 18 July 1913 d/o George & Leota Meadows
Madge Meadows 15 September 1914- 11 November 1914 d/o George and Leota Meadows
Opal Meadows 14 April 1907 – 21 May 1935 d/o George and Leota Meadows
Fred Wyatt 1871 – 1914 wife buried at Hebron Cemetery near Spencer
Nettie Meadows 5 April 1892 – 10 February 1934 d/o Fred Wyatt and Rebecca Lauce;first wife of Ola Hearst Meadows; he the s/o Harrison and Lucinda Meadows
J. S. Meadows 16 January 1859 – 28 February 1929 John Shannon, s/o Harrison and Martha Meadows
Effie L. Meadows 21 April 1866 – 21 December 1922 d/o R. A. and Sarah McClain;wife of J. S. Meadows
Mary Ann, wife of J. W. Rowh d/o Harrison and Martha Meadows, wife of John Wesley
5 September 1852 – 21 August 1887 Rowh, Roane records as James W. Rowh
Evelyn, daughter of E. E. & L. A. Meadows parents – Emery Earle Meadows, s/o John Shannon Meadows 10 June 1914 – 16 March 1916 and Lizzie A. Vineyard
Sheridan Meadows 1866 – 1939 s/o Harrison and Martha Meadows
Mary M. Meadows 1870 – 1958 d/o Charlie Waggoner, wife of Sheridan Meadows
John H. Waggoner 1875 – 1960
Glenna Waggoner 1849 – 1928 mother of John H. Waggoner
E. J. Rowh 1879 – 1960 Earnie, s/o Mary Ann and J. W. Rowh
Odie Rowh 1882 – 1975
Harley B. Rowh 1906 – 1934 s/o Earnie Rowh
Nelvie Hively Rowh 1908 – 1959
Hamon Shirley Rowh 1909 – 1934 s/o Earnie Rowh
Hester Sallie Rowh 23 September 1920 – 29 November 1921 d/o Earnie Rowh
G. W. Lawrence 1850 – 1908 variation on spelling
Perlina W. Lowe, wife of 1852 – 1928 d/o Emaline Meadows, (sister of Harrison Meadows) G. W. Lawrentz and Charles B. Lowe; George and “Lina”parents of Homer, Harvey, and D. C. (Cloyd)
Homer Gray Lawrentz 22 April 1893 – 16 April 1975
Mary L. 4 June 1899 – 21 June 1963
Sidney Earl Lawrentz 26 December 1926 – 16 September 1929 s/o Homer and Mary Lawrentz
Harvey A. Lawrentz 19 July 1878 – 19 January 1944
Sallie 12 October 1880 – 1 May 1968
D. C. Lawrentz 1880 – 1933
Rosa M. Lawrentz Groves 1888 – 1965
Cement tombstone, some information flaked off:
E.______ HA______ 1875 – 1900
M. L. Lawrence 1877 – ____
E. E. Lawrence 18_2 – 1902
Bernice, daughter of R. B. and Effie Lesher Effie, d/o Perlina Lowe Lawrence
26 April 1909 – 18 August 1909
Eliza Tanner 23 August 1974, 65 years old d/o “Hedge” Waggoner
Earl V. Starcher 1901 – not Meadows relatives, bought former
Mary E. 1903 – 1964 Meadows land
Nora Lee Starcher May 1945
Patricia Diane White d. 11 October 1961 Waggoner descendant
Buhl, son of E. & M. L. Van Horn relationship unknown
11 August 1899 – 27 August 1900
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