Christopher Columbus Meaders

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Christopher Columbus Meaders

Birth
Franklin County, Georgia, USA
Death
20 Nov 1887 (aged 79)
White County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Cleveland, White County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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Believe this is Christopher Meaders, b. 12 May 1808 in Franklin Co., GA, d. 20 Nov 1887 in White Co., GA. He married Candace Garrison (1811-1893). They had 12 children.


The other White County pottery dynasty, of course, is the Meaders family. Its first representative was Christopher Columbus Meaders, who in 1848, at the age of forty, exchanged his property in what is now Banks County for a parcel of land at Mossy Creek. There he became a prosperous drygoods merchant and farmer, and was soon the wealthiest man in the district..."


Christopher was named in John A. Burrison;s book "Brothers In Clay, The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery" (Copyright © 1983 by the University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia 30602), on page 254.
Believe this is Christopher Meaders, b. 12 May 1808 in Franklin Co., GA, d. 20 Nov 1887 in White Co., GA. He married Candace Garrison (1811-1893). They had 12 children.


The other White County pottery dynasty, of course, is the Meaders family. Its first representative was Christopher Columbus Meaders, who in 1848, at the age of forty, exchanged his property in what is now Banks County for a parcel of land at Mossy Creek. There he became a prosperous drygoods merchant and farmer, and was soon the wealthiest man in the district..."


Christopher was named in John A. Burrison;s book "Brothers In Clay, The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery" (Copyright © 1983 by the University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia 30602), on page 254.

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