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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Albert G. Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1808 in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.

  2. Samuel White Meriwether: Birth: 11 FEB 1810 in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. Death: DEC 1866 in Lowndes County, Alabama

  3. Martha Garland Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1811 in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. Death: 1841 in Washington County, Texas

  4. Frances E. Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1812 in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. Death: 1896 in Texas

  5. James Sturdivant Meriwether: Birth: 1 MAY 1816 in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. Death: 25 OCT 1859 in Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama

  6. Cynthia Annie Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1817 in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. Death: 14 OCT 1873 in Houston, Harris County, Texas

  7. Jeremiah William Meriwether: Birth: 15 JAN 1821 in Burnt Corn, Monroe County, Alabama. Death: 11 OCT 1851 in Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama


Notes
a. Note:   N4590 John Garland Meriwether
 Dr. Monte Latimer Monroe
  John Garland Meriwether was born in November 1785 in either Virginia or Georgia and died between August and 5 September 1836 in Lowndes County, Alabama. Only a few details are known about his life.
  During the War of 1812 John Garland Meriwether served as a 1st Lieutenant in the 6th Volunteer Rifle Company of Major William Alexander's 44th Battalion, in General John Gloyd's Division of the Georgia Militia. He was on duty between 23 August 1813 and 1 March 1814 when he was mustered out at Milledgeville, Georgia. For his service he was paid thirty dollars per month plus a subsistence allowance. The company muster rolls note that John was on furlough sick at both the beginning and end of his service. It is unkown if John participated in any of General Floyd's campaigns against the Creeks in Alabama.
  John Meriwether did perform some public service in both Georgia and Alabama. In March 1815 he was a member of the Clarke County, Georgia grand jury and voted along with his father-in-law, James Hayes, who was foreman of the jury, in favor of excluding "people of color" from the jury box. In addition, records show that John was the federal contractor responsible for constructing a new segment of the Federal Road through the Creek Nation in Alabama Territory, between Pine Barren Springs, Georgia and Fort Bainbridge, Alabama, during 1819 and 1820. By 16 June 1820 John had migrated from his home near Athens, Georgia to the vicinity of Burnt Corn, Monroe County, Alabama. Further, correspondence shows that he was a friend of United States Secretary of the Treasury William H. Crawford, a distant kinsman and fellow Georgian. In an 1820 letter to the Secretary, John requests that Crawford look into getting the payment due to him for completion of the Fort Bainbridge road. According to Meriwether he was in desperate need of payment because he had recently moved to Alabama and had purchased enough provisions to last him for two years, for which he had to pay high prices. It is unknown if John Garland Meriwether held public office in Georgia or Alabama.
  By 14 December 1831 John became afflicted with some type of physical and ensuing mental infirmity. On that day John's son Albert G. Meriwether, along with John's son-in-law, Allen Love, applied to the Orphan's Court in Lowndes County, Alabama, on behalf of of other family members, that an inquiry be held to determine the ability of John to manage his own business. On the first Monday in January 1832 a twelve man jury of inquisition was impaneled, which ruled John was a lunatic incapable of handling his own affairs. Indeed, numerous Lowndes County probates and orphan's court records between 1832 and 1836 show him to be a non compas mentis with a guardian. At first he was under the care of his son, Samuel, then under the guardianship of a Mr. Lemuel Pruitt, who was once sheriff of Lowndes County. Medical record fragments and prescription receipts among his loose probate records show that in 1832 John was prescribed various medicines including calomel, tincture of peppermint, and laudanum. It is probable that, whatever his malady, it must have been painful to occasion the administration of laudanum. Receipts also show that at one point Meriwether made a trip to South Carolina, but the purpose of the trip is unknown.
b. Note:   N4591 War of 1812 Service
  During the War of 1812 John Garland Meriwether served as a 1st Lieutenant in the 6th Volunteer Rifle Company of Major William Alexander's 44th Battalion, in General John Gloyd's Division of the Georgia Militia. He was on duty between 23 August 1813 and 1 March 1814 when he was mustered out at Milledgeville, Georgia. For his service he was paid thirty dollars per month plus a subsistence allowance. The company muster rolls note that John was on furlough sick at both the beginning and end of his service. It is unkown if John participated in any of General Floyd's campaigns against the Creeks in Alabama.


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