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(Dr.) Joseph Davis MEADE #15025

9 NOV 1874 - 22 DEC 1968

Personal Information

  • TITLE: Dr.
  • RESIDENCE: 1920, Elkhorn City, Pike, Kentucky, USA
  • OCCUPATION: Dentist
  • RESIDENCE: 1910, Pikeville, Pike, Kentucky, USA
  • RESIDENCE: 1920, Elkhorn City, Pike, Kentucky, USA
  • BIRTH: 9 NOV 1874, Johnson, Kentucky, USA
  • DEATH: 22 DEC 1968, Pikeville, Pike, Kentucky, USA

Notes

Joseph had an amazing familiarity with a vast store of poetry, which he had committed to memory. In particular the works of Robert Burns. At the urging of his children, a book of his own poems, titled Spirit of the Mountains in Ryme was published in 1964. At the age of 14 J. D. took the Martin County, Kentucky teachers exam, passed it and had taught eleven pubic schools before was twenty-four years old.

Parents

Father: Henry Parnell MEADE #15008

Mother: Zina DAVIS #12061

Family 1 :

Wife: Jemima PRICE

  • MARRIAGE: 22 DEC 1898, Johnson, Kentucky, USA
Note:

Children:

  1.   Miriam Eva MEADE #15347
  2.  +Florence Mae MEADE #15348
  3.  +Joseph Davis MEADE Jr. #15351
  4.  +Vivian Price MEADE #15353
  5.   Catherine Borders MEADE #15354
 
 
                                                _____________________
                                               |                     
                        _Henry Gose MEADE _____|
                       | (1813 - 1864)         |
                       |                       |_____________________
                       |                                             
 _Henry Parnell MEADE _|
| (1845 - 1919) m 1872 |
|                      |                        _____________________
|                      |                       |                     
|                      |_Elizabeth HICKS ______|
|                        (1813 - 1896)         |
|                                              |_____________________
|                                                                    
|
|--Joseph Davis MEADE 
|  (1874 - 1968)
|                                               _Joseph Ward DAVIS __
|                                              | (1802 - 1886) m 1817
|                       _Joseph Ward DAVIS Jr._|
|                      | (1835 - 1900) m 1853  |
|                      |                       |_Elizabeth BORDERS __+
|                      |                         (1799 - 1886) m 1817
|_Zina DAVIS __________|
  (1854 - 1936) m 1872 |
                       |                        _____________________
                       |                       |                     
                       |_Lavina WARD __________|
                         (1835 - 1910) m 1853  |
                                               |_____________________

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