Nancy Meador, wife of Elias Chaffin
For those who have been searching for the wife of Elias Chaffin (c.1804-1856) of Jefferson Co., IL, and mother of (among others) Ruth, wife of Green Lee Chitwood, please note that Victor Paul Meador's work, entitled 'Meador Families of Virginia and Points West,' on page 429, has a Nancy Meador/Meadows (c.1806-p.1850), m. c. 1822 in Jackson Co., TN, to Elias, son of Abner Chaffin. She is given as the daughter of Jobe Meador (son of Isham Meador and Obedience Bradshaw) and of Mildred Simmons (daughter of Charles Simmons and Frances Meador, Isham Meador's sister).
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