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| In 1837, Coweta County, Georgia, Daniel Coleman sold land to Simeon Meadows and Stephen Ward.341 In 1860 in Coweta County, Simeon Meadows sold land to A. B. Calhoun.342
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| | On 7 May 1841, Simeon Meadows protested before a Troup County, justice of the peace that he had not known of a summons to serve as a juror. On 29 November 1843, Troup County, Simeon Meadows sold land in Troup and Coweta Counties including the north half of Lot 16 in District 12, a part of the south half, Lot 16, District 12, and the south half of Lot 85 in Coweta County, excluding the dwelling house and land around it.343
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| | After living in Troup County for sixteen years, Simeon moved to Heard County, Georgia, in the early part of 1843. The malaria from the decaying timber on the recently cleared land and from the swamps of Yellow Jacket Creek caused so much sickness and chills and fever that Simeon moved ten miles north into Heard County, about five miles from Franklin, near Cooksville.
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| | Simeon sold his land in Troup County, but reserved possession for that year. In the fall of 1843, he bought at administrator’s sale, a large and fairly good place in Heard County, known as the old Wood place. It contained about 800 acres and the residence was on an eminence between two small creeks that ran through the place. The location was high, the house was good, one and a half stories high, and contained nine rooms with broad halls below and above, and was built about the beginning of the 1830’s.344
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| | The body of the house, two large rooms, built of large, smoothly hewn logs and lined inside and out with planed dressed planks with fireplaces both up and downstairs. The Wood family was fairly wealthy and the place was noted for its quantity and variety of fruits and flowers. Simeon bought the farm very cheap, because of a financial crisis; there was no money in the country. He bought the farm for half cash and half security. His father, Daniel Meadows, was the security.
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| 341 Coweta Co., Ga., Deed Book E, p. 377. Daniel Coleman to Simeon Meadows and Stephen Ward.
| | 342 Coweta Co., Ga., Deed Book L, p. 374–375. Simeon Meadows to A. B. Calhoun.
| | 343 Troup Co., Ga., Deed Book H, p. 561–562. Recorded 8 Aug. 1844.
| | 344 Family History written by his son Simeon Joseph Meadows. The deed records of Heard Co., Ga., haven’t survived.
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