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| James and Clarisse Meadows moved from Coweta County, to Carroll County, Georgia. They lived at 202 South Street in Carrollton, Georgia, in 1870392 and 1880.393 About 1895, they moved from Carrollton, Georgia, to Lisbon, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, where three of their children had already moved.394 James and Clarisse Meadows lived with their son, Olney William Meadows, when the 1900 census was taken in Claiborne Parish.395
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| | Clara Meadows Spence remembered her grandparents, James M. and Clarisse Meadows, with a great deal of love. Their home on South Street was next to the Kramer place. When they lived in Carrollton, Clara visited them a number of times. Both had an understanding of children and knew how to make them happy. Clara always loved to go to grandmother’s house and sleep on the high bed in the front room. There was a little three step stool she used to climb onto the high bed where she was almost swallowed in a big feather bed. There was also a little trundle bed that slid under the big bed during the day. Clara remembered the games her grandmother played with her and the walks with grandfather through the woods where they gathered nuts.396
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| 392 1870 U.S. Census, Carroll Co., Ga., p. 137, Carrollton P.O., #99/99. James M. Meddows, age 56, male, white, $1500/$1700; Clarissa H. Meddows, age 47, female, white; Felix C. Meddows, age 18, male, white; Warren M. Meddows, age 15, male, white; Joseph C. Meddows, age 11, male, white; Julius E. Meddows, age 7, male, white; John W. Stephenson, age 30, male, white. (All b. Ga.)
| | 393 1880 U.S. Census, Carroll Co., Ga., Meadows, James M., head, age 66, b. Ga. NC NC; Clarisa H., wife, age 55, b. Ga. Ga. Ga.; Warren M., son, age 23; Joseph C., son, age 20; Julius E., son, age 16. (All b. Ga.). 202 South Street, Carrollton, Ga. was owned by Everett McWhorter in 1960.
| | 394 Clara Meadows Spence, Orlando, Florida, to Miss Nell Meadows, Carrollton, Ga., 25 Sept. 1960. “Our grandparents went to live with Uncle William and Uncle Talbot soon after we came to Carrollton following my father’s death. They went to Louisiana about 2 years after father died and mother brought us to Carrollton.” Clara’s father, Felix Chatham Meadows, died 10 Aug. 1893 near Caddo, Indian Territory. Clara Meadows Spence was born in 1882 and Nell Meadows was born in 1899.
| | 395 1900 U.S. Census, Claiborne Parish, La., SD 5, ED 26, Sheet 4, Ward 8. Meadows, O.W., white, male, head, b. Sept. 1844, age 55, married 28 yrs., b. Ga. Ga. Ga.; Bettie Meadows, white, female, wife, b. March 1853, age 47, married 28 yrs., b. Ga. Ga. Ga., had 9 children, 9 living; James M. Meadows, white, male, father, b. Dec. 1813, age 86, married 61 yrs., b. Ga. Ga. Ga.; Clarisy H. Meadows, white, female, mother, b. Sept. 1822, age 77, married 61 yrs., b. Ga. Ga. Ga., had 10 children, 6 living; Clyde C. Meadows, white, male, son, b. Mar. 1876, age 24, single, b. La. Ga. Ga.; Erma Meadows, white, female, dau., b. Feb. 1882, age 18, single; Jessie Meadows, white, female, dau., b. Jan. 1884, age 16, single; Warren M. Meadows, white, male, son, b. Apr. 1887, age 13, single; Olney N. Meadows, white, male, son, b. Aug. 1888, age 11, single; Alverne Meadows, white, female, dau., b. Apr. 1891, age 9, single.
| | 396 Clara Meadows Spence, Orlando, Fla., to Nell Meadows, 327 Maple St., Carrollton, Ga., 25 Sept. 1960.
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