Ancestry of
Jon Meacham

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Arthur James McLeod

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Jon Meacham — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 38 
  • Father:
  • James Bent McLeod 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Sep 1829 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Oct 1906 
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  • Burial Location:
  • South Brookfield Union Cemetery, South Brookfield, Nova Scotia, Canada 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Eunice Deane Waterman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jan 1855 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Milton, Nova Scotia, Canada 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Ida McLeod (Ahnentafel No:19 )

  Grace Dean McLeod

  • Notes: 

  • The gravestone for Arthur James McLeod gives the names of his parents.

• Sources for Arthur James McLeod

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/24/2025).
  • ² The Daily Review (Wilmington, North Carolina), 01 SEP 1885, p. 1, Wedding of Dr S C Ellis and daughter Ida McLeod.
  • ³ Green, B. M., Who's Who in Canada: An Illustrated Biographical Record of Men and Women of the Time, Toronto: International Press Limited (1922), 108.
  • ⁴ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. II, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1942), 123.

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