When Margaret Virginia Snead was born on 12 January 1753, in Goochland, Goochland, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, John Snead, was 28 and her mother, Molly Knowlton, was 28. She married Athe Meeks I on 5 April 1776, in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 28 August 1843, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Old Nauvoo Burial Grounds, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.