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In Memorium

Captain Gordon Kenyon Meriwether, Jr., Ph.D., a past president of The Meriwether Society, passed away Friday, March 10 in Pensacola from complications from pneumonia. The Society expresses our condolences to his family and mourns the loss of a good friend.

Obituary

 

2006 Annual Meeting

The 2006 Annual Meeting is scheduled for June 15-18 in Williamsburg, Virginia. A special emphasis on family research is planned, with seminars on how to do family research combined with a visit to the Library of Virginia in Richmond and possible visits to local Williamsbug libraries, including William & Mary College. A tentative schedule with hotel registration information is now available. Please click the link below to download the schedule and registration form!

2006 Annual Meeting Schedule & Registration

The Meriwether Society, Inc.

Vi et Consilio

The Meriwether Society, Inc. (TMSI) is a hereditary organization established by descendants of Nicholas Meriwether I (abt 1631-1678). Almost all known Meriwethers in the USA through the mid 1800's are believed to have descended from Nicholas. Many prominent families of early Virginia, including Anderson, Barker, Bartee, Bathurst, Browne, Burnley, Bushrod, Clemens/Clements, Cochran/Cochrane, Crawford, Dabney, Fauntleroy, Holmes, Howard, Jefferson, Kendall, Lewis, Logan, Mathews, Minor, Oglesby, Overton, Pollard, Randolph, Smith, Syme, Taliaferro, Terrell, Thornton, Walker, Washington, Wayles, Wingfield, etc. have ties to Meriwethers.

The Society sponsors several book projects and an English research program exploring the origination of Nicholas and his siblings prior to their arrival in Jamestowne/James City VA in the 1650s and a repository has been established at the Virginia Historical Society for preservation of donated heirlooms and historical documents of Meriwether Society members.

The Society conducts an annual meeting, with a major reunion held every odd numbered year.

A Meriwether Research Database containing over 50,000 names has been established to help in these activities. Researchers with even a single Meriwether in their collection are urged to send the information to the Society genealogist at the Webmaster address given later. Requests for surname searches should be sent to the same address. This database is now online! See information below.

Additional Information:

Items for Sale

New Books Available

The book "Recollections of 92 Years, 1824-1916" by Elizabeth Avery Meriwether has sold out and is no longer available.

The Society is selling a genealogy book by her husband, Minor Meriwether, "Lineage of the Meriwethers and Minors from Colonial Times", published in 1895. This book has been made available through the generousity of Terrence W. Reigel and his wife, who provided a clear copy from an original in their possesion. While not as accurate as the 1899 book by William R. Griffith, for which Minor Meriwether wrote the Foreword and commented on the new information and corrections provided by Griffith, this book has a number of family stories of the Tennessee and Kentucky branches that bring to life many of the noted Meriwethers of those areas. It also has information on the Minor branch that married into the Meriwethers and was prominent in Heath Meriwether's book, "The Meriwether and Their Connections." The book also contains a number of pages of pictures. Highly recommended for your Meriwether family collection.

Price: $19.00 postage paid. Click here for ordering details.

Meriwether Society Research Database

Start at Nicholas Meriwether

The Meriwether Society maintains a lineage-linked research database of descendants of Nicholas Meriwether. This database contains data from many sources, some of which has been verified by primary sources, much of which has not. The Society recently placed the essential database information on-line at the Rootsweb Worldconnect site. Please visit our site and review the information we have on your family. If you see errors or ommissions, please let us know.

Meriwether EMail ListServer

You may join the Meriwether Society Email ListServer by sending a message to:

MERIWETHER-L-request@rootsweb.com

In the body of the message, place the following:

SUBSCRIBE

Confirmation with instructions on using the list and unsubscribing will be sent.

To unsubscribe, follow the same instructions but use UNSUBSCIBE instead.

For more information, visit the Roots-L home page.

Search the Meriwether-L List

 

Click the above link to search for messages of interest.

Meriwether Connections Newsletter

Index of Past Issues

Below are extracts of articles from previous issues of Meriwether Connections.

Meriwether Society Research Links

Ancestry.com & Rootsweb.com Message Boards The place to seek and post queries on Meriwether related issues. Message types include Bible, Biography, Birth, Cemetery, Census, Death, Immigration, Lookup, Marriage, Military, Obituary, Pension, Queries, and Will topics.

Research Registry Register your particular Meriwether research interests

Genealogy.com (World Family Tree)

MyFamily.com The following are private sites requiring an invitation to join. Click the link to have an invitation sent to you. And be sure to send your NAME, as it is required to send the invitation.

Miscellaneous Links

Other Connections

  • Meriwether Place Names & Trivia
  • Merryweathers of England Welcome to the Merryweather Home site ( including all spellings of) Meryweather, Merriwether, Meriwether, Merriweather, and Meriweather. Of Particular interest to family's from Great Britain, and Commonwealth. Plus all their descendants and ancestors.
  • The Albert Gallatin Mabry home in Selma, Alabama. Mabry's step-daughter married Captain Catesby ap Roger Jones. Captain Jones, a Meriwether descendant, was the excutive officer of the C.S.S. Virginia (U.S.S Merrimac) which fought the U.S.S. Monitor. Jones was temporarily commanding the Virginia during the actual engagement with the Monitor.
  • OLD LINKS A bunch of links; many no longer exist.

Other Genealogy Sites

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