Your Greenwich Family History – Meads around Greenwich
From: Ron Mead
Your Greenwich Family History:
Meads around Greenwich:
Luther Mead and his wife Annis probably arrived in the Greenwich area from Connecticut in the early 1800’s. They had 4 boys and one girl. One of the boys was Thomas L. Mead, who married Allathea Finch. They had ten children (6 boys and 4 girls). One of the girls was Anna D Mead, who was a schoolteacher and held Saturday afternoon children’s story hours in the Greenwich City Council room for many years during the 1940’s. One of the boys was Edward Lawrence Mead, who married Eudora Sizer of Waterville, OH in 1893. They had five children (3 girls and 2 boys). Up to this point most of the Meads had remained in the Greenwich Twp area as farmers. Upon reaching adulthood the girls moved to the Cleveland area. The two boys , Royce and T.L., remained in the Greenwich area farming the family farm north of Greenwich on the Rome-Greenwich Road and serving as Greenwich’s rural mail carriers from the 1920’s into the 1960’s. Royce married Hazel King and moved to Ripley Twp in the mid-1930’s. Interestingly, after Royce and T.L. retired from the mail route, two of T. L.’s nephews, Arthur and Allan White picked up Greenwich’s two rural routes in the 1960’s. Royce and Hazel’s son Ronald married Carol Lee of Greenwich Twp. Ronald entered the Air Force and they left the Greenwich area in 1959, except for occasional visits.
Kings around Greenwich
John Golden King of North Royalton, OH married Sarah Bark of Cuyahoga County in 1859 and they probably arrived in Ripley Twp in the early 1860’s. They had 2 girls and 4 boys, who lived in the Greenwich area. One of the boys was John King, a farmer in Ripley Twp, who married Eva Sprinkle. They had 1 girl and 3 boys. Hazel King married Royce Mead and lived almost all of her life in Ripley Twp.
Watsons in the Greenwich Area
Samuel Watson married Abigail Burgess in 1855 in upstate New York, and they probably came to Greenwich Twp in the early 1860’s. They had 4 boys, one of whom was Clarence Watson who married Ella Mead of Greenwich. They had three boys and one girl, Myrtle Watson of Olena, OH, who married Carl Lee of Morrow Co, OH. They had two boys and one girl. One of the boys, Linley, was born in Wadsworth, OH, but was moved to the Greenwich area when very young. He grew up in Greenwich Twp and married Luella Gremling of Mansfield. They settled in Greenwch Twp and had 2 boys and 2 girls. One of the girls, Carol Lee married Ronald Mead.
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