James
Hugh
Meredith
Born in New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States
Ancestors 
Son of David Meredith
and Mary (Farrington) Meredith
Husband of
Mary (Stanley) Meredith
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Joanna (Meredith) Hunt, Thomas Jefferson Meredith, James Harvey Meredith, Rosanna (Meredith) Gray, Jesse Stanley Meredith, Jabez Hunt Meredith and William Wesley Meredith
Died
at about age 70
in West Virginia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 15 May 2017
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Biography
According to family records: '...Mary Stanley Meredith brought her eight children, the oldest was 12, the youngest less than one year old, in 1829 to Indiana. She left her husband (James Hugh Meredith) in North Carolina, as he ran a still which she opposed, and she wished to leave a slave state. Her first cousin was Levi Coffin, President of the Underground Railway. She was related to the President James Polk family (?). Her husband refused to change. She and her children passed over the Cumberland Gap with one horse and a large 2-wheeled cart. She moved to Wayne County, Indiana, where she had relatives. Her children were Joanna, Thomas Jefferson, James Harvey, Jabez, Rosanna, Jesse, Susanna, and William Wesley Meredith. Mary and her children, except Joanna and Jabez, moved to Lynnville, on a farm two miles northeast in 1858. Thomas Jefferson and Jesse married Macy sisters - Susan and Luzena, daughters of William Macy who married Phebe Hiatt, a Quaker preacher and teacher.'
Taken from Findagrave.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Raymond Meredith
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-M222, FTDNA kit #485471
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Jessica (Malsor) Jarrett :
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