Lucinda WASSON

  General Notes:

Photo: In 1965, the stones of Lucinda (Wasson) Meacham, 1805-1847, and her son, George A. Meacham, 1834-1845, appeared "this way" at Koszta Cemetery, Koszta, Iowa County, Iowa. When my distant cousin, Linda Kelley Schlater, photographed them again in 1999, they had darkened with age (see "George A. Meacham").

Lucinda's husband, Anderson Meacham, did remarry after her death. "The mother" Sarah "Emma" L. (Meacham) Fields, 1843-1886, refers to in her letters is actually her stepmother, Fanny (Averill) (Pratt) Meacham, who entered Emma's life when she was about five years old.

Photo taken by DeeAnna Allum Granston in 1965


Comments:

In the late 1990s I became aware that folks in Meacham, Oregon (named for the pioneer sons of Anderson and Lucinda Wasson Meacham of Iowa), believed "Grandma Meacham" was buried in, where else? Meacham Cemetery. I informed them that the boys' natural mother, Lucinda, was buried in Iowa. In addition, their stepmother, Fanny, is also buried in Iowa. Now they are left to ponder "who is in Grandma Meacham's grave."

--DeeAnna

Lucinda married Anderson MEACHAM, son of George A. MEACHAM and Mary DURHAM, on December 22, 1822 in Orange County, Indiana. (Anderson MEACHAM was born on November 11, 1800 in Pennsylvania, Indiana Or Chatham, North Carolina, died on April 16, 1882 in (Near) Solon, Johnson County, Iowa and was buried in Koszta Cemetery, Iowa County, Iowa.)