Person:Charles Meadors (6)

1910 Whitley Co., KY visit 150

    Charlie Meadors, 27, married 9 yrs, born KY, parents KY, carpenter
    Rhoda, wife, 29, born KY, parents KY, 3 children / 3 living
    Susie G, dau, 7, born KY
    Ruby E, dau, 3, born KY
              NOTE: only 2 children listed, where is other child

9/12/1918 Draft registration - Whitley Co., KY

    Charles Meadors, age35, born Nov 10, 1882
    residing in Pol**, Ky
    miner
    Rhoda Meadors
    med height & build, blue eyes, black hair

1920 Census - Gatliff, Whitley Co., KY <indexed under MEADOWS>

    Charley, age 37, born KY, coal miner
    Roda, age 38, born KY
    Susie, age 16, born KY
    Rubie, age 13, born KY
    Clarence, age 9, born KY

Daily Tribune, Corbin, KY, Dated 19 Oct., 1958 Meadors Was Grandson of Man Who Raised 17 Children & 3 Slaves By Fred C. Faulkner

  In Mt. Ash, Ky. I found Charlie Meadors, son of Jason Meadors and grandson of Lewis Meadors who raised 17 children of his own, and three Negro slaves bought from a man named Jones.  The Negroes continued to be called Jones.
  Charlie Meadors and his wife live at the mouth of Cane Creek, otherwise called Hog's Jaw Crossing and Kool Kamp, but are presently staying with their daughter, Mrs. Bruce Goins who was widowed June 25 when her husband was killed in the wreck of a Dixie Ohio truck near Somerset, Ky.  He was the son of Scott Goins, also deceased.  He had been a resident of Mt. Ash for many years.
  Charlie's Mother was a sister of Henry Morgan, former policeman of Williamsburg.
  Mrs. Meadors is a granddaughter of Amos Bennett, also known as Uncle Bud Bennett who was killed by a falling chimney in the Jellico, Tenn. explosion 21 Sept 1906.
  Will Rickett of Gatliff married his aunt, Vina Bennett.  So Mrs. Meadors is a first cousin to Amos Rickett of Gatliff, and also to James Rickett, whereabouts unknown.  Also to Layton Rickett of Wofford.
  Charlie Meadors was first cousin to Millard Meadors who once taught in Williamsburg Institute - now Cumberland College, and to the husband of Mrs. Lizzie Meadors, who long kept a boarding home for college students in Williamsburg - mother of Roscoe Meadors who married Louise Hibbs whose father Dr. H.H. Hibbs was then pastor of First Baptist Church of Williamsburg.  Miss Reba Meadors was her only daughter.
  Mr. Meadors has suffered a stroke which left him slow of speech and of memory but he is able to be up and is quite cheerful. His one complaint is that most of the visitors in the home are women.  He would like very much for more of the older men to come by to see him.  The Goins home is near the over-head bridge in Mt. Ash.
  Mrs. Meadors said she rode the first passenger train to run from Corbin to Jellico.  It was a Sunday afternoon.  She said her father, Joe Bennett, took her and others to Brummett station and left them to board the train while he drove to Rockholds to pick them up for the trip back home.  Her memory is better than mine.  I can't remember my first train ride from Boston (or Siler Crossing) to Bird Eye.  I was 6 months old at the time, so they say.  If so, the date was 1893.
  On the road from Lot to Mt. Ash this morning I kept on the old hiway instead of taking the new road at Saxton.  I needed to drive through Mt. Ash to get further information on a sale and on the Meadors family. Driving is much more pleasant on these old roads than the new ones.  One has more leisure and meets more interesting people.
  I stopped at the Goins home yesterday to see her range - a combination burning coal on the left and gas on the right.  Asked for a glass of water and was served iced tea instead.  On the table was a slice of cake baked by Miss Diane Goins, a 3rd yr. student at Pleasant View High School and a classmate of my own daughter, Peggy Fern Faulkner.  She had baked it for her grandmother's 77th birthday Sept. 19th.
  Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Meadors celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary July 4th.