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| 28. Ransom4Meadows (Isham3, Isham2, Daniel1), was born 25 December 1786, Warren County, North Carolina, died 2 April 1863, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, aged 76 years, 4 months, and 7 days, buried one mile off Elkahatchee Road, three miles south of Alexander City, Tallapoosa County.223 He married 4 February 1808, Greene County, Georgia,224 to Sarah Stephens,225 born circa 1790/91, died 3 November 1872.226
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| | Ransom Meadows paid taxes in 1809 and 1815 in Greene County, Georgia. In Greene County, Georgia, 6 December 1815, William Stevens of Greene County, sold to Starling Acree, for $1000, 192 acres in Greene County, on Stephens Creek, adjoining Isham Meadows. Witnesses were Nathaniel Acree, Edward Meadows, Ransom Meadows, and Thomas Lyne, J.P.227
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| | Ransom and his father, Isham Meadows, moved from Greene County, Georgia, to Alabama, between 1815 and 1820. Ransom and Isham Meadows lived in Lowndes County, Alabama, in 1830. Ransom lived in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, in 1850228 and 1860.229
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| | Ransom was the most prosperous Meadows. He owned $53,680 worth of real estate and $103,000 worth of personal property in 1860.
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| | Ransom’s administrators in Tallapoosa County, in 1873 were: Albert Hollaway, John Spratlin, Robt. L. Richardson, Andy S. Smith, and Thos. J. Hunt. They were to sell 352 acres of the deceased, on 11 November 1873.
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| 223 In N.E. 1/4 of Section 20, Township 22N, Range 21E, Tallapoosa Co., Ala.
| | 224 The marriage is not recorded in Greene Co., Ga. But, Ransom Meadows lived in Greene Co., Ga., in 1808.
| | 225 Photograph of Ransom Meadows tombstone: “Ransom Meadows, born in Warren Co., N.C., Dec. 25, 1786, married Sarah Stephens, Feb. 4, 1808, died April 2, 1863, aged 76 yrs., 4 mos., 7 days.”
| | 226 Petition of Gilbert Meadows, 18 Jan. 1873, Tallapoosa Co., Ala., Sarah Meadows died 3 Nov. 1872.
| | 227 Greene Co., Ga., Deed Book FF, p. 35. Recorded 18 March 1816.
| | 228 1850 U.S. Census, Tallapoosa Co., Ala., p. 95, #1376/1376, Twp. 23: Meaddows, Ransum, age 63, born N.C.; Sarah, age 59, born Ga.; Miles, age 14, born Ga.; John M., age 7, born Ga.
| | 229 1860 U.S. Census, Tallapoosa Co., Ala., p. 413, Beat 3, Western Division, P. O. Fishpond, #1477/1477. Ransom Meadows, age 73, b. N.C., $53,680/$103,000; Sarah Meadows, age 70, b. Ga.; Mary Sanders, age 50, b. Ga., $5000; Nolly Sanders, age 35, female, b. Ga.
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