Eva Morton Meredith

Female2 March 1907–23 August 1991

Brief Life History of Eva Morton

When Eva Morton Meredith was born on 2 March 1907, in Appomattox, Virginia, United States, her father, Henry John Meredith, was 64 and her mother, Lucy Jane Bell, was 26. She married Hunter Jamerson on 24 October 1928, in Prospect, Prince Edward, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in United States in 1949 and Southside District, Appomattox, Virginia, United States in 1950. She died on 23 August 1991, in Rivermont, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 84.

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Family Time Line

Hunter Jamerson
1905–1975
Eva Morton Meredith
1907–1991
Marriage: 24 October 1928
Kenneth Warren Jamerson Sr.
1934–2014

Sources (14)

  • Eva Morton Meredith in entry for Hunter Jamerson, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
  • Eva J Merideth in household of Henry J Merideth, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Eva Morton Meredith in entry for Hunter Jamerson, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    24 October 1928Prospect, Prince Edward, Virginia, United States
  • Children (1)

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    Siblings (8)

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    World Events (8)

    1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed

    Age 1

    Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.

    1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility

    Age 10

    Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War  the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.

    1929

    Age 22

    13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

    Name Meaning

    Welsh: from the personal name Meredydd (Old Welsh Morgetiud, Middle Welsh Maredudd, from a possible British Celtic ethnic name of the type Morgetes + iǖth ‘lord’). Compare Beddow .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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