Bio: Dr. John E. Meadors, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Dr. John E. Meadors, well known throughout Claiborne Parish, La., was born 
in Chambers County, Ala., in 1836, and was one of six children who grew to 
maturity, the other members of the family being Nancy S. (wife of Dr. J. F. 
Leake, who is now deceased), Mary S. (the deceased wife of Thomas H. Brown, 
of this parish), Camilla P. (wife of James M. Calloway of Harrison County, 
Tex.), Hon. James (who is a resident to this parish).  The father, Washington 
Meadors, was born in the "Palmetto State" April 15, 1798, a son of Jason Meadors, 
who was a veteran in the Revolutionary War in which he held the rank of colonel.  
Washington Meadors was married to Rachel Bonds, born in Newberry District, S. C., 
in 1804, a daughter of Mr. Stark, who was the son of the famous John Stark, of 
New Hampshire, of whom it is said made the remark: "We will beat today or Molly 
Stark will be a widow."  Dr. Meadors grew to maturity in Alabama, and in 1857, 
having graduated from a well-known medical college of Georgia, he came to Claiborne 
Parish, La., and since 1858 has been a practitioner of this region, quite a number 
of his first patients being still his patrons.  In 1860 he married Miss Mary A. 
Traylor, a daughter of Green S. And Martha (Allison) Traylor, of Troup County, GA., 
both of whom came to Louisiana and died in Claiborne Parish.  To the Doctor and his 
wife five children were born: James G. (in 1862, is a graduate of Washington & Lee 
University of Lexington, Va.), Emma Lee (became the wife of J. E. Cockrell, who is 
a son of Senator Cockrell, and is now judge of the Eleventh District of Texas), Annie, 
John T. And Prentiss.  The Doctor has always been a Democrat, and is an active partisan 
in the selection of good men to fill the office of both State and parish.  He and his 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and socially he is a member of the 
K. of P. of Homer.  That he has always been the friend of education goes without saying, 
and he sent his children to colleges of Virginia and Pennsylvania, in which institutions 
they acquitted themselves with honor.  The Doctor is one of the oldest and most successful 
of the physicians of the parish, and as an honorable, upright man has not his superior.

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