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| The obituary of Anna Thompson Meadows was published in the Christian Index, 31 July 1873: Mrs. Annis Meadows, wife of deacon Daniel Meadows, died at the residence of her son, in Coweta County, on the 4th day of July 1873, in the ninety–first year of her age. She was a woman of remarkable mental and physical strength, and had endured many of the hardships and privations of frontier life; and during the War of 1812 she experienced the many bitter trials of a soldier’s wife, with several young and helpless children to support. She was born August 31, 1782, was married on the first day of the nineteenth century [January 1st 1801], joined the Baptist Church at Old Bethel, in Taliaferro County, about the year 1810, and from then until her death, was a faithful and consistent Christian, spending much of the time during the last twenty years of her life in reading the Bible. She frequently remarked that, though she dreaded the pangs of death, she did not fear to die and meet the God of her hope. She leaves a husband, who is in the ninety–fifth year of his age, and many relatives and friends to grieve at her departure. Several of her children, and many grandchildren had preceeded her across the dark river, and may the angelic spirit of this mother of Israel watch and hover over those of us who are yet to cross, is the prayer of the writer...S. J. Meadows.118
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| | Daniel Meadows moved from Warren County, North Carolina, to Stephens Creek in Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1798, with his father, Isham Meadows, and brothers, John, James, William, and Edward Meadows. Daniel’s brother, Isham, had moved to Wilkes County, in 1790.
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| | Daniel Meadows paid taxes in Wilkes County, in 1801 in Capt. John Bethune’s District RR on Stephens Creek; he owned no land. In 1802, Daniel Meadows paid taxes in Capt. Stephen Gatlin’s District RR in Wilkes County; he owned no land.119 Daniel came of age in 1801. The Stephens Creek neighborhood of Wilkes County, was cut off into Greene County, Georgia, in 1802. Daniel lived in Greene County, after 1802.
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| 118 Christian Index, 31 July 1873, p. 8, column 2. Georgia Archives. Transcribed by Lanny Cauthen. Copy to the author, 15 May 1979.
| | 119 Hudson, Wilkes Co., Ga., Tax Records, p. 1033 and 1067.
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