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  1. William Joseph Meriwether: Birth: 31 AUG 1843 in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia. Death: 26 AUG 1844 in Newton County, Georgia

  2. James Osgood Andrew Meriwether: Birth: 29 APR 1845 in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia. Death: 9 JUN 1849 in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia

  3. Henry Asbury Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1847 in Georgia. Death: 5 FEB 1865 in Petersburg, Virginia

  4. Robert Molloy Meriwether: Birth: 9 MAY 1850 in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia. Death: 6 AUG 1854 in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia

  5. Ann Amelia Meriwether: Birth: 15 MAY 1852 in Newton County, Georgia. Death: 31 JUL 1885 in Newton County, Georgia

  6. Thomas Andrew Meriwether: Birth: 7 SEP 1854 in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia. Death: 30 OCT 1854 in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia

  7. Sarah Frances Meriwether: Birth: 8 OCT 1855 in Newton County, Georgia. Death: 14 FEB 1856 in Newton County, Georgia

  8. Elizabeth Henrietta Meriwether: Birth: FEB 1857 in Newton County, Georgia. Death: 1 SEP 1906 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia


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  1. Carietta Howard Meriwether: Birth: 11 MAY 1866 in Newton County, Georgia. Death: 10 MAY 1945 in Bovina, Delaware County, New York

  2. Cynthia Octavia Meriwether: Birth: 10 FEB 1868 in Newton County, Georgia. Death: 15 AUG 1884 in Newton County, Georgia

  3. Clara Lewis Meriwether: Birth: 16 SEP 1869 in Newton County, Georgia. Death: 14 MAR 1959 in Wilkes County, Georgia

  4. Thomas Molloy Meriwether: Birth: 25 JAN 1872 in Covington, Newton County, Georgia. Death: 18 JUL 1923 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia

  5. Frances Fletcher "Fannie" Meriwether: Birth: 30 AUG 1874 in Newton County, Georgia. Death: 2 JUL 1885 in Covington, Newton County, Georgia

  6. Myra Osborne Meriwether: Birth: 13 DEC 1877 in Covington, Newton County, Georgia. Death: 6 JUN 1964


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a. Note:   N4663 The Macon Telegraph (Macon, Georgia), 12 July 1899, Wednesday
  DEATH OF MR. MERIWETHER
 He Was a Prominent Georgian—A Member of Emory College Trustees.
 WASHINGTON, Ga., July 11.—Hon. T. M. Meriwether, one of the most prominent and highly respected citizens of Wilkes county, died last night after a lingering illness of several months. He was born in 1821 and for a number of years was resident of Newton county, here his remains were sent this morning for Interment.
  A devout member of the Methodist church, he took an active part in religious work and for a number of year was chairman of the financial board of the north Georgia conference. In 1885 he was elected a member of the board of trustees of Emory college and was at the time of his death the oldest member on the board. He represented Wilkes county in the state legislature for one term and made an enviable reputation a legislator.
  He was married three times. His first wife was a daughter of Bishop James O. Andrew. His last wife and four children survive him.
b. Note:   N4662 The Macon Telegraph (Macon, Georgia), 13 Jul 1899, Thursday
  Sorrowing for Judge Meriwether.
 EMORY COLLEGE, OXFORD, Ga., July 12.—Another one of Emory's trustees is dead and was buried here today. In the death of Judge Thomas M. Meriwether, which occurred at his home in Wilkes county yesterday (sic: 10 Jul), Emory college has lost another one of her staunchest and truest friends and supporters. The remains were brought here for burial this evening, accompanied by many sorrowing friends and by Bishop Candler, assisted by President Dowman in the church chapel, beginning at 5 o'clock this evening. Tne Bishop's talk was fittingly directed to the man's life, covering it in every phase and sympathetically eulogizing upon his many noble traits of Character.
  Judge Meriwether lived in this county a [g]reat portion of his life as one of its honored citizens. He is a descendant of Mr. David Meriwether, who helped to make the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, thus giving to Georgia all its western territory.
  He was married twice, his first wife being a daughter of Bishop J. O. Andrew and his last wife lives to mourn his death. He represented his county (Wilkes) in the legislature at one time; was made a trustee of Emory college in 1886, which place he has admirably filled for the past thirty-four years. Bishop Candler said of him: "He was truly a noble, cultivated, generous and hospitable gentleman of the old school."
  His many bereaved friends all over the state will deeply sympathize with the family he left in this their great grief.
c. Note:   N4661 His friend, Robert Watkins Lovett, married three times. Each of the wives had a sister who married Judge Meriwether.
  "There are some facts in Dr. Lovett's life which run parallel with some facts in the life of another in such a way as to form a most wonderful coincidence." In 1843 Thomas Meriwether married Miss Henrietta Andrew, daughter of the late Bishop Andrew, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A little later in the same year and a few months after Dr. Lovett's graduation he married Elizabeth Mason Andrew, Mrs. Meriwether's sister. Mrs. Lovett died in 1856, and in 1859 Dr. Lovett married Miss Sallie Isabel Price, of Florida. Judge Thomas Meriwether became a widower, and in a few years he married Miss Mary Price, Mrs. Lovett's sister. Then Judge Meriwether became a widower again and married a Miss Smith, of the famous teacher family of Georgia. Dr. Lovett, having been also bereft a second time, married a third time, his bride being Mrs. Meriwether's twin sister, Miss Marietta Smith, who still abides as the faithful and devoted companion of his old age."

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