(Dr.) Joseph Davis MEADE #15025

9 NOV 1874 - 22 DEC 1968
TITLE Dr.-
RESIDENCE 1920, Elkhorn City, Pike, Kentucky, USA
OCCUPATION Dentist-
RESIDENCE 1910, Pikeville, Pike, Kentucky, USA
RESIDENCE 1920, Elkhorn City, Pike, Kentucky, USA
BIRTH 9 NOV 1874, Johnson, Kentucky, USA
DEATH 22 DEC 1968, Pikeville, Pike, Kentucky, USA

Historical Notes

Joseph had an amazing familiarity with a vast store of poetry, which he had committed to memory. In particular the works of Robert Burns. At the urging of his children, a book of his own poems, titled Spirit of the Mountains in Ryme was published in 1964. At the age of 14 J. D. took the Martin County, Kentucky teachers exam, passed it and had taught eleven pubic schools before was twenty-four years old.

Parents

Father : Henry Parnell MEADE #15008

Mother : Zina DAVIS #12061

Family 1

Jemima PRICE
    MARRIAGE 22 DEC 1898, Johnson, Kentucky, USA

Children

  1.  Miriam Eva MEADE
  2. +Florence Mae MEADE
  3. +Joseph Davis MEADE Jr.
  4. +Vivian Price MEADE
  5.  Catherine Borders MEADE

Lineage 

                                                _____________________
                                               |                     
                        _Henry Gose MEADE _____|
                       | (1813 - 1864)         |
                       |                       |_____________________
                       |                                             
 _Henry Parnell MEADE _|
| (1845 - 1919) m 1872 |
|                      |                        _____________________
|                      |                       |                     
|                      |_Elizabeth HICKS ______|
|                        (1813 - 1896)         |
|                                              |_____________________
|                                                                    
|
|--Joseph Davis MEADE 
|  (1874 - 1968)
|                                               _Joseph Ward DAVIS __
|                                              | (1802 - 1886) m 1817
|                       _Joseph Ward DAVIS Jr._|
|                      | (1835 - 1900) m 1853  |
|                      |                       |_Elizabeth BORDERS __+
|                      |                         (1799 - 1886) m 1817
|_Zina DAVIS __________|
  (1854 - 1936) m 1872 |
                       |                        _____________________
                       |                       |                     
                       |_Lavina WARD __________|
                         (1835 - 1910) m 1853  |
                                               |_____________________

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