Rev. Josiah Meadows [15175]

  General Notes:

The Josiah Meadows who came from Mercer County, Virginia was an American Soldier having served for two or more periods; a part of the time on the frontier against the Indians, and another part in the American Army against the British. The facts here stated are taken from his declaration made for pension in 1832, when he was seventy-four years of age. He enlisted in the early spring of 1778 under Captain Joseph Renfroe, and marched with his company to Jarrett's Fort on Wolf Creek, now in the County of Monroe, where the company was divided, and part thereof, he among them, was sent to Keeney's Fort on the Greenbrier where he was stationed at the time of the attack made by the Indians on Donnally's Fort. Upon the expiration of the term for which he enlisted he again entered the service in the company of Captain Isaac Taylor and with his company and regiment, the latter commanded by Colonel John Montgomery, marched through the Holstein country to the Indian town at Chicamauga which was destroyed; from thence going to the Illinois country under Colonel George Rogers Clark. After his return he was with a portion of the American Army that had charge at Yorktown. Mr. Meadows was a Baptist minister in the last years of his life; locating on the north of the Bluestone, and among his sons were Josiah and John Meadows. From this Josiah Meadows, the soldier, has descended the large family of that name in Mercer and adjoining counties. After locating in Bluestone, he married Juda (Judith) Lilly daughter of Robert Lilly who settled there ten years earlier. (Pension Cert #2123)

REFERENCE BOOK OF WYOMING COUNTY HISTORY by Mary Keller Bowman--McClain Printing Company, Parsons, West Virginia 26287 (1965)

MEADOW FAMILY: Rev. Josiah Meadows: Service, Virginia No. 2123; No. S7325.
Miller, History of Summers County, says of Josiah Meadows: "This is a large and numerous family, scattered throughout Raleigh, Mercer, Summers, and adjoining counties. Originally 'Meadows,' many of his descendants are styled 'Meador,' but the original ancestors of all bearing this name regardless of how it is spelled are the same: Two brothers, Josiah and Jacob Meadows, came to this region after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, between 1780 and 1783. Jacob came from Rockingham County, Virginia..."

Possibly died in Lilly, Summers County, Virginia.

Enlisted in Bedford County, Virginia; served 6 months then enlisted for 12 months as a resident of Botetourt County, Virginia.

Josiah married Judith Lilly [15341] [MRIN: 5067], daughter of Robert Lilly Sr. [25530] and Mary Frances "Fanny" Moody [25531], about 1783. (Judith Lilly [15341] was born in 1764 in Virginia and died on 10 Jan 1846 in Mercer County, Virginia.)