Barbara Green [15177]

  General Notes:

In Estill County, Kentucky on the 5th of October 1838 before Aaron McMonigle, Justice of the Peace, Barbara Meadows, widow of Israel Meadows deceased, made an oath that she is the widow of Israel Meadows who was a private in the Revolutionary War; that she is satisfied he was in the army previous to their marriage and that after the army he was again in service for several months; that he was stationed at Point Pleasant on the Kentucky River; that she has always understood that she was born in the year of General Braddock's defeat on Easter Day in 1775 and to the best of her recollection she married at age 23, going on 24 years old and on the 8th day of July, at the time of their marriage, she and her husband resided in Greenbrier County, but there being no parson near, she recollects that they went over to Peter's Mountain and married on the east side, at the house of one Henry Smith; her first child was born the next spring after her marriage and if living would be 60 years of age next spring. She had 10 children by her deceased husband but has no record of their ages - except a mutilated one from which she can tell was her 7th child and was born November 1792 and her 10th child, and last one, was born on the 18th day of July 1799; that after her marriage, she and her husband continued to reside in Greenbrier County, Virginia until the year or two after her birth of her youngest child. They then moved to Madison County, Kentucky where her husband died 11 years since in September and where she has ever since continued to reside.

Barbara married Israel Meadows [15178] [MRIN: 5049], son of Josiah Francis Meadows [20671] and Lavinia Moody [20672], on 8 Jul 1778 in Botetourt County, Virginia. (Israel Meadows [15178] was born on 17 Sep 1755 in Virginia and died on 30 Sep 1827 in Estill County, Kentucky.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Date:. Could be 7 august 1778.