Ancestry of
Jon Meacham

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Eunice Jean Ellis

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• • Great-grandmother of Jon Meacham — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Cowdell Ellis 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Ida McLeod   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Oct 1886 
  • Birth Location:
  • South Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Jul 1940 
  • Death Location:
  • Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Cowan White Kirby Meacham
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1911 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Ellis Kirby Meacham (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Eunice Jean Ellis

  • ¹ Federal Census, TN, Hamilton County, 1930, Chattanooga, E.D. 22-42, Sheet 2B, Image 4 of 26.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/23/2025).
  • ³ Tennessee, U.S., City Birth Records, 1881-1915, Birth record for son Ellis Kirby Meacham.
  • ⁴ Tennessee, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1965, Death certificate for spouse Cowan White Kirby Meacham.
  • ⁵ Tennessee, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1965, Death certificate for Jean Alice Meacham.
  • ⁶ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Record for son Ellis Kirby Meacham.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. II, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1942), 123, gives Eunice's middle name as Deane, and her birthdate as 11 OCT 1886.

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