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| There were other reasons why the farm was cheap. It was more than a mile from any public road and three miles from any church or school and the bold rock spring was a quarter of a mile from the house. There were no wells of water in Heard County in those days. Everybody had a spring. The financial crisis soon passed and Simeon W. Meadows sold 300 acres of the Heard County farm for almost as much as he had paid for the 800 acres.
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| | About 1846 Simeon bought 100 acres of land 1 ½ miles away on the public road leading from Newnan to Franklin, Georgia. It was a beautiful location with a one room dwelling and a pretty grove in front. He moved all of the old house there except the body, but still retained the plantation as long as he lived. It was sold at executor’s sale and purchased by the husband of a granddaughter of the old Wood patriarch.
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| | About 120 yards from the old Wood house there was a graveyard where the old Wood parents and several others of the Wood family were buried. There were no marble monuments in those days and the graves of the two old people were each walled up about two feet and covered over with large, smooth flat stones. This was near Bethel Church near Cooksville, Georgia.
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| | Simeon W. Meadows lived in Heard County, Georgia, in 1850.345 He was a Justice of the Peace in Heard County, 17 November 1858.346
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| | Simeon’s parents, Daniel and Anna Meadows, lived with him in 1855 in Heard County. Daniel and Anna lived in Coweta County, but came to help take care of his children after the death of his wife, Susanna.
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| 345 1850 U.S. Census, Heard Co., Ga., p. 153, #259. Simeon Meadors, age 43, farmer, $2000; Susan Meadors, age 41; Thomas D. Meadors, age 19, farmer; Sarah A. E. Meadows, age 16; Simeon J. Meadors, age 10; Susan A. E. Meadows, age 4. (All b. Ga.). 1850 Heard Co., Slave Schedule, Simeon Meador, 5 slaves.
| | 346“Settlement of the Estate of William Alexander of Heard Co., Ga.,” in Coweta Co., Ga., 17 Nov. 1858, Coweta Co., Ga., Return Book J., p. 194, Newman, Ga., photocopy in possession of the author.
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