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Dr. John E. Meadors

Dr. John E. Meadors, well known throughout Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, was born in Chambers County, Louisiana, in 1830, and was one of six children who grew to maturity, the other members of the family being Nancy S. (wife of Dr. J. P. Leak, who is now deceased), Mary S. (the deceased wife of Thomas H. Brown, of this parish), Camilla P. (wife of James M. Calloway of Harrison County, Texas), Hon. James (who is a resident of this parish, and has represented the Third Congressional District in the State Senate one term), and Achsah H. (wife of Dr. J. P. Taylor, also of this parish). The father, Washington Meadors, was born in the "Palmetto State" April 15, 1798, a son of Jason Meadors, who was a veteran in the Revolutionary War in which be held the rank of colonel. Washington Meadors was married to Rachel Bonds, born in Newberry District, South Carolina, in 1804, a daughter of Mr. Stark, who was the son of the famous John Stark, of New Hampshire, of whom it is said made the remark: "We will beat them today or Molly Stark will be a widow." Dr. Meadors grew to maturity in Alabama, and in 1857, having graduated from a well-known medical college of Georgia, he came to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, and since 1858 has been a practitioner of this region, quite a number of his first patients being still his patrons.

In 1800 he married Miss Mary A. Traylor, a daughter of Green S. and Martha (Allison) Traylor, of Troup County, Georgia, both of whom came to Louisiana and died in Claiborne Parish. To the Doctor and his wife five children were born: James G. (in 1862, is a graduate of Washington & Lee University of Lexington, Virginia), Emma Lee (became the wife of J. E. Cockrell, who is a son of Senator Cockrell, and is now judge, of the Eleventh District of Texas), Annie, John T. and Prentiss.

The Doctor has always been a Democrat, and is an active partisan in the selection of good men to till the offices of both State and parish. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and socially be is a member of the K. of P. of Homer. That he has always been the friend of education goes without saying, and he sent his children to colleges of Virginia and Pennsylvania, in which institutions they acquitted themselves with honor. The Doctor is one of the oldest and most successful of the physicians of the parish, and as an honorable, upright man has not his superior.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890