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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power
These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon
County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all
necessary research to document what is contained herein.
MEADER, WILLIAM W.
, born April 22, 1820, in New Hampshire, came to Springfield in 1839, resided two years at Springfield and Pawnee, returned east, and was married at Dover, N. H., in 1845 to Lavina Trickey. He brought his family to Sangamon county in 1866, engaged in farming and selling dry goods, moved to Christian county in 1868, and Mrs. M. died, Nov., 1872, at Clarksdale. Their only child:
EDWARD F., is now of the firm of Brock & Meader, Clarksdale, Christian county, Illinois. Wm. W. Meader lives in Clarksdale, also.
Mr. Vienna Bodge, widow of James Bodge, late a merchant of Pawnee, is a sister to Timothy E. and Wm. W. Meader.
L. M. Babb, who lives three miles northeast of Pawnee, is a nephew of the Meaders.
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