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Updated: 07-12-2021 05:07:80.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Lucy Ann Meriwether: Birth: 11 JUL 1820 in "Meriville", Todd County, Kentucky. Death: 26 JUL 1821 in "Meriville", Todd County, Kentucky

  2. Lucy Anne Meriwether: Birth: 22 MAY 1822 in "Woodlawn", Orange County, Virginia. Death: 14 APR 1844 in Marshall County, Mississippi

  3. Dabney Minor Meriwether: Birth: 26 AUG 1823 in Cabin Row Plantation, Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 23 SEP 1824 in Cabin Row Plantation, Christian County, Kentucky

  4. Louisa Minor Meriwether: Birth: 11 DEC 1825 in Cabin Row Plantation, Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 16 OCT 1826 in Cabin Row Plantation, Christian County, Kentucky

  5. Minor Meriwether: Birth: 15 JAN 1827 in Cabin Row Plantation, Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 6 JUN 1910 in Saint Louis, Missouri

  6. Niles Meriwether: Birth: 26 JAN 1830 in Cabin Row Plantation, Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 28 DEC 1900 in Shelby County, Tennessee

  7. Robert Dale Owen Meriwether: Birth: 8 JAN 1833 in Cabin Row Plantation, Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 26 OCT 1905


Notes
a. Note:   N780 He was named for his maternal grandfather, COL Garrit Minor.
b. Note:   N781 Clarksville Jeffersonian (Clarksville, TN), 8 Oct 1851, p. 1.
  Mr. Garrett Meriwether Age 57 yrs. Died 26 Sept. 1851, at his home in Christian County, Kentucky. Member of Clarksville Div. No. 10 Sons of Temperance.
c. Note:   N783 Clarksville Chronicle (Clarksville, TN), Date unknown (died 26 September 1851)
  Died, 26 September 1851, at his residence in Christian County, Kentucky, Mr. Garritt Meriwether, in the 58th year of his age.
  Custom has hallowed the privilege claimed by affection to adorn the memory of the dead with an array of virtue, and to throw the mantle of silence over those imperfections, from which humanity can claim no full exemption. But in paying humble tribute to the exalted worth of our deceased friend, we claim no such license. Charity has nothing to ask, justice nothing to yield, affection nothing to fear, when the most rigid conformity to truth, reveals no blemish over which friendship need shed a tear. To say that he was perfect would be to extravagant praise, but to claim for him a purity of motive and correctness of deportment in the varied relations of life, rarely equaled, perhaps never surpassed, is simple justice.
  To a mind highly cultivated, and rarely at fault on the subject of his duties, as husband, father and citizen, was added a heart whose comprehensive benevolence embraced the human family; and whilst he was ever a zealous and efficient advocate of every scheme for the amelioration of man's condition, he failed not in the dispensation of those private charities, called for by the misfortunes of those around him. The poor found in him a friend ever ready to assist them, and not consideration of personal comfort or private convenience was permitted to interfere with the duties growing out of his relations as friend and neighbor.
  In his intercourse with society he was candid, kind, affable and respectful, and so uniformly just that malice itself dared not asperse his character; and recognizing no distinction save that of moral worth, every honest man, no matter how humble his position, enjoyed the full measure of his respect. That his gentle and affectionate disposition caused him to be loved and his stern integrity to be honored by his large circle of acquaintances, it is needless to affirm; and he who saw the concourse of sorrowing friends that crowded around his grave, needs no other evidence that the last solemn rites were being paid to no ordinary man.

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