He was born in 1853 in Chester County, South Carolina to Robert Mead and Mary Price. Shortly after his birth, his parents left South Carolina and resettled in Clark County, Arkansas.[1]
After the end of the Civil War his parents moved first to Paris, Texas and then to Lebanon, Texas.[1] By 1880 he has married Sarah Capps and living in Collin, Texas with their daughter, Ada.[2]
In December, 1881, his wife, Sarah, died leaving him with two small children.[1]His mother, Mary Ann, came to Texas to help him raise his daughters.[1]
In 1881, he and his brother, Robert, filed on land in Oklahoma, between Blair and Martha. Cuthbert later bought land two miles south of Martha where he remained for the rest of his life. [1]
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.4 A Southern Branch of the Mead Family by Martha M. V. Mead Giles, 1970,
↑ “United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFF1-MGW : 1 December 2021), Bird Mead, Justice Precinct 6, Collin, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMGX-JK5 : accessed 20 December 2021), Cusbern B Mead, Altus Township (west part), Greer, Oklahoma Territory, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 80, sheet 23B, family 419, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,337.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLQM-LJ5 : accessed 20 December 2021), C B Mead in household of J C Clayton, Martha, Jackson, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 144, sheet 11A, family 186, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archive
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