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Elizabeth Edmunds Rivers1,2,3

#2092, (1796 - 1863)
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Parents

Key Events:

  • Elizabeth Edmunds Rivers was born on 18 Dec 1796 in Tennessee.4,5
  • Elizabeth married Richard Terrell Meriwether, son of Thomas Meriwether and Anne Nancy Minor, in 1813 in Tennessee.6,7,8
  • Elizabeth died in Apr 1863 in Madrid Bend at age 66, from anguish of spirit at the brutal treatment she received from the Yankees after the capture of Island 10.9

Children with Richard Terrell Meriwether:

  • Elizabeth Meriwether+
  • Martha Baxter Meriwether+
  • John Thomas Meriwether
  • Margaret Douglas Meriwether+
  • Jane Rivers Meriwether
  • Robert Rivers Meriwether+

Citations

  1. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 19, shows name as Elizabeth Rivers.
  2. Boddie, John Thomas; Boddie, John Bennett, Boddie and Allied Families, pg 166, shows name as Elizabeth Edmunds Rivers.
  3. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116, shows name as Elizabeth Rivers.
  4. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows state.
  5. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 30, shows date.
  6. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows year and state.
  7. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 19, shows year.
  8. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116, shows year.
  9. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 30.

Peter Minor Meriwether1,2,3,4

#2095, (1797 - 1851)
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Parents

Key Events:

  • Peter Minor Meriwether was born on 7 Feb 1797 in Louisa Co., Virginia.5,6,7
  • Peter married first Mary Walker Meriwether, daughter of William Douglas Meriwether and Elizabeth Lewis, they had two children, who died as infants.8,9,10,11
  • Peter married second Frances W. Gamble, daughter of Richard Gamble and Elizabeth Turnsall, on 3 Oct 1836, by minister John Goss; no issue.12,13,14
  • Peter died on 25 Aug 1851 in Hot Springs, Bath Co., Virginia, at age 54.15
  • He was buried in "Cismont", Albemarle Co., Virginia, his home place.15

Citations

  1. "Douglas - Meriwether Family", shows name as Peter M.
  2. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows middle inital as N.
  3. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 20, shows name as Peter Minor Meriwether.
  4. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116.
  5. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows date and state.
  6. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 20, shows date, county, and state.
  7. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116, shows date.
  8. "Douglas - Meriwether Family", shows his first marriage, and diagram shows two children, unnamed.
  9. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998.
  10. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 20, shows as his first marriage.
  11. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116, shows as his first marriage.
  12. Pike, Sharon, "Francis W. Tapp," e-mail to author, 21 Oct 2002, citing Index to Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties VA 1655 - 1900, shows date and minister.
  13. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 20, shows as his second marriage, and that she was a widow.
  14. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116, shows as his second marriage.
  15. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 20.

Thomas Lewis Meriwether1,2,3,4,5

#2097, (1799 - 1838)
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Parents

Key Events:

  • Thomas Lewis Meriwether was born on 27 Sep 1799 in Louisa Co., Virginia.6,7,8
  • Thomas died on 4 Jul 1838 in Madrid Bend, Tennessee, at age 38, at the home of his brother, never married.6,9,8

Citations

  1. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows surname as Meriwether.
  2. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 21, shows surname as Meriwether.
  3. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116, shows surname as Meriwether.
  4. "Douglas - Meriwether Family", shows name as Thomas Meriwether.
  5. Fenker, Richard M. Jr., Family File "Fenker.FTW," 29 Sep 1998, shows name as Thomas Brockman.
  6. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows date and state.
  7. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 21, shows date, county, and state.
  8. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116, shows year.
  9. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 21, shows date, town, and state.

Francis Thornton Meriwether1,2,3

#2098, (1801 - 1804)
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Parents

Key Events:

  • Francis Thornton Meriwether was born on 17 Sep 1801 in Virginia.4,5,6
  • Francis died on 13 May 1804 at age 2, scalded to death.7,5,6

Citations

  1. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998.
  2. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 21.
  3. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116.
  4. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows month, year, and state.
  5. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 21, shows date.
  6. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 116, shows year.
  7. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows month, and year.

Ann Minor1,2,3,4

#2100, (1781 - 1801)
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Parents

Key Events:

Child with Dr. Charles Meriwether:

Citations

  1. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998.
  2. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 18, shows as sister of Dabney Minor, the author's grandfather.
  3. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 25, citing record copied 25 Jul 1845 by Mary Launcelot Minor from Bible printed 1646, given by Sarah Carr to her son James Minor, and by him to his son Dabney.
  4. Genealogical Publishing Co., Genealogies of Virginia Families - William and Mary Quarterly, vol III, pg 712, extract from 1st Series, Vol. IX (1900) pp 179-182.
  5. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 45.
  6. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 61.
  7. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows date.
  8. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 18, shows date, and as his second marriage.
  9. Anderson, W P, Early Descendants of Wm. Overton & Elizabeth Waters, pg 25, citing record copied 25 Jul 1845 by Mary Launcelot Minor from Bible printed 1646, given by Sarah Carr to her son James Minor, and by him to his son Dabney, shows married.
  10. Genealogical Publishing Co., Genealogies of Virginia Families - William and Mary Quarterly, vol III, pg 712, extract from 1st Series, Vol. IX (1900) pp 179-182, shows married.
  11. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows date, state.
  12. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 45, shows date, place, county, and state.

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