Cool Meadows Family Genealogical Discovery

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I've been working on my family's genealogy since about January now, and I'm at the point where things are really beginning to get interesting. Several lines have been traced back to the Revolutionary War era, and to the folks who originally immigrated to America (most came over when we were still colonies).

Tonight I learned that my 6th great grandfather, Thomas Cadle Sr., served as a Private in the Revolutionary War.

By doing a Google search, I discovered that on July 4th a year ago, his grave-site was restored with a new veteran's memorial grave marker. His original gravestone (which had been lost & buried for over 100 years) had previously been discovered in a pile of rocks on what had been thought to be an unmarked grave. 

Here is a great newspaper article detailing Cadle's service, and his activities during the war, as well as the circumstances which led to his grave-site's restoration:

http://hin.stparchive.com/Archive/HIN/HIN07172012p01.php

What a cool family discovery to make on the night before Independence Day.

See the original article from The Hinton News by Pauline Haga here:

http://hin.stparchive.com/Archive/HIN/HIN07172012p01.php

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Looking for the Linkenhokers

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Gillie A. (Linkenhoker) Meadows (whose given name may have been Catherine) was born around 1875. I have a picture of her parents, but I don't know their names:

UPDATE: Based on a comment I received to this post, it looks as if the couple below my be Abraham Thomas Linkenhoker and his wife Harriet N. Collin(s). I suppose it is also possible, but less likely, that this couple could be Abraham's parents.

I've been working on my family's genealogy lately, and as anyone would expect, I've hit a couple of brick walls with some of our family lines. I have really enjoyed using Ancestry.com because I am able to view so many of the documents that help to verify the bits of information that I've been able to find. The other nice feature is that the website often has suggestions from other members' family trees, when they include similar names and histories. The first dead end that I've come to is the Linkenhoker line.

I found the photo above in my grandmother's photo album. I believe that these are the parents of Gillie A. (Linkenhoker) Meadows, but have not been able to find any additional information about them so far.

According to my information, Gillie (Catherine?) was married to William Preston Floyd Meadows. She gave birth to my great grandmother, Georgia Texas Meadows in 1909.

The photo below is one of Gillie A. (Linkenhoker) Meadows, which we discovered online. We believe that she is holding Georgia Texas Meadows (her daughter) in this picture:

Another picture of Gillie found online:

If you happen to know the names of the Linkenhokers in the first picture, please contact me by commenting on this post. Thanks!

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