Coweta County GaArchives News.....History of John C. Meadows November 24, 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bobby Meadows brmeadows@hotmail.com January 13, 2007, 9:16 pm Newnan Times-Herald November 24, 1971 History of John C. Meadows Shortly after Coweta counth was formed, Daniel Meadows and his family decided to leave Wilkes County, Ga., for Texas. In the fall, they stopped at a spring in the southern end of this county near where a town was formed in 1840 known as Calico Corners, renamed Grantville in 1852 after L.P. Grant, president of A&WP Railroad, which railroad ended at Grantville. Dan Meadows liked the water in that spring, and since his horses needed rest and plenty of canes and honeysuckle were there for them to graze on, he built a lean-to of pine tops for shelter. They cleared four acres of land and stayed there until his death at 96. Dan Meadows had six children, one daughter and five sons, one of which was John C. Meadows who was born November 21, 1810. When he became 18 years of age, being the son of Daniel Meadows, a veteran of the revolutionary war, he was eligible for drawing in the Cherokee gold lotery and in a land lottery. His Land lottery was a lot of land where Five Points in Atlanta now stands. John found a man who had drawn a lot of land where this cabin now stands and swapped his land at Marthasville for it. John Meadows married Julia Ann Cook of Cooksville, Ga., and they had nine children, namely Thomas S., Mary Heard, Simeon Edward, Rebecca U., Augusta E., Sarah J., Lucy D., Josephine, "Tippy", and Martha. John C. Meadows was six feet, six inches tall, large, 240 pounds, not fleshy but muscular. He had a large head and brain. He was a farmer, merchant, money leader, justice of the peace. He was well educated for the times as evidenced by some of his books in his own hand writing. He was an excellent smith and builder according to records held by Mrs. Millie Webb Groover of East Point, his great - granddaughter, who has been very helpful with this history. John C. Meadows' family cemetery is on a hill nearby and the Federal Highway system has agreed to leave it intact where it is, which will be within the cloverleaf where I-85 crossed Highway 29 and they will maintain and preserve it forever. In my travels, I have never seen a family cemetery maintained in a cloverleaf of an interstate highway. Coweta county is to be congratulated on its interest in all this early history being preserved. Hopefully, other families will want to assist in preserving the history of this area in our new parks system and maybe have much more for people to come, stay, and see." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/coweta/newspapers/historyo2656nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb