James Meriwether
1789 - 1864 (74 years)-
Name James Meriwether [1] Born 1 Aug 1789 Georgia 
[2] Gender Male Died 16 Jan 1864 Coweta County, Georgia Buried Emory Chapel Methodist Cemetery, Coweta County, Georgia 
Findagrave memorial for James M. Meriwether
MEMORIAL ID 14793339
James Meriwether Person ID I2209 Dickinson Last Modified 5 May 2019
Father David Meriwether, d. ca. 1829, Clarke County, Georgia Mother Susannah Smith, b. ca. 1768, Georgia , d. 1833, Georgia (Age ~ 65 years) Family ID F7392 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Frances Bradshaw, b. 4 May 1793, North Carolina , d. 7 Feb 1863, Coweta County, Georgia (Age 69 years) Married 27 Feb 1814 Greene County, Georgia [3] Notes - Jones and Reynolds report that William David Meriwether's father was Congressman James Meriwether (1789-1854) of Clarke County, Georgia, one of the commissioners who negotiated the Second Treaty of Indian Springs. This is erroneous. The apparent fact that the congressman passed his adult life in Clarke County makes it unlikely that a child would have been born and educated in Coweta County as alleged. Events surrounding Williams' 1828 birth illustrate this improbability: Meriwether's congressional term for Clarke County expired on 3 Mar 1827 and he was enumerated there in the 1830 census. The confusion may arise from the facts that William's father shares a given name and birth year with the congressman. But the James claimed here was in Coweta County as early as 1840 with a son that was born between 1825 and 1830. Then a William is enumerated in the household of James and Frances Meriwether of Coweta County in the 1850 census. But more significant still is that this James is buried at Emory Chapel, as is William and other children enumerated in the 1850 census.
The tree posted by the Meriwether Society, Inc. shows that James of Coweta, and James of Clarke, did have common paternal great grandparents in David Meriwether (1716-1772) and Mary Weaver (1722-1767), and, seminally, GGG grandfather, Nicholas Meriwether (1631-1678).
Children + 1. Peyton S. Meriwether, b. 17 Aug 1819, Georgia , d. 25 Feb 1891, Coweta County, Georgia (Age 71 years)+ 2. Sarah Ann Meriwether, b. 06 May 1821, Georgia , d. 14 Apr 1889, Coweta County, Georgia (Age 67 years)3. Elizabeth F. Meriwether, b. 1825, Georgia 4. James B Meriwether, b. 1827, Coweta County, Georgia , d. 1905, Coweta County, Georgia (Age 78 years) [Birth]+ 5. William David Meriwether, b. 17 Nov 1829, Coweta County, Georgia , d. 4 Jan 1915, Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida (Age 85 years) [Birth]6. Martha Cassandra Meriwether, b. 20 Sep 1831, Coweta County, Georgia , d. 22 May 1885, Coweta County, Georgia (Age 53 years)+ 7. Cornelia V. Meriwether, b. 10 Dec 1833, Coweta County, Georgia , d. 21 Mar 1870, Washington County, Texas (Age 36 years)8. Joseph Meriwether, b. Abt. 1837, Coweta County, Georgia Last Modified 9 Sep 2010 Family ID F0672 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Jones and Reynolds report that William David Meriwether's father was Congressman James Meriwether (1789-1854) of Clarke County, Georgia, one of the commissioners who negotiated the Second Treaty of Indian Springs. This is erroneous. The apparent fact that the congressman passed his adult life in Clarke County makes it unlikely that a child would have been born and educated in Coweta County as alleged. Events surrounding Williams' 1828 birth illustrate this improbability: Meriwether's congressional term for Clarke County expired on 3 Mar 1827 and he was enumerated there in the 1830 census. The confusion may arise from the facts that William's father shares a given name and birth year with the congressman. But the James claimed here was in Coweta County as early as 1840 with a son that was born between 1825 and 1830. Then a William is enumerated in the household of James and Frances Meriwether of Coweta County in the 1850 census. But more significant still is that this James is buried at Emory Chapel, as is William and other children enumerated in the 1850 census.
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Married - 27 Feb 1814 - Greene County, Georgia 
Died - 16 Jan 1864 - Coweta County, Georgia 
Buried - - Emory Chapel Methodist Cemetery, Coweta County, Georgia = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Sources - [S100034] Coweta County Chronicles for One Hundred Years, Mary Gibson Jones and Lilly Reynolds, (Atlanta, Georgia: Stein Printing Co., 1928), 739.
- [S014287] 1860 United States Census, Bureau of the Census, (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860).
Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860.M653, 1,438 rolls. Several Districts, Coweta, Georgia, post office Newnan, roll M653_118, page 841, image 294. - [S007817] Georgia Marriages to 1850, Jordan R. Dodd, (Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997).
- [S100034] Coweta County Chronicles for One Hundred Years, Mary Gibson Jones and Lilly Reynolds, (Atlanta, Georgia: Stein Printing Co., 1928), 739.