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Sudie Highbaugh Meredith (1870-1949) - 13th Child of Fletcher & Maria and Her Descendants

Sudie Highbaugh Meredith

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  1. Note attached to marriage bond of William and Sudie.  Note states that William Highbaugh and Laverne Barnett witnessed Maria Highbaugh’s consent to the marriage of William and Sudie.

  2. Cover page for the document ‘Colored Marriages 1866-1913’.  The information in this document was researched and compiled by Ruby Heady and later donated to the LaRue County Genealogical Society.

  3. Page 21 of the document ‘Colored Marriages 1866-1913’. 

  4. Sudie's death certificate

  5. Census for African-American school in Buffalo, KY (1914-1915).  The last five students are the children of William and Sudie.  The first four students are the children of Sudie's brother William Highbaugh.

Mabel Meredith Walters (1893-1980) - First Child of Sudie
and Her Children

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  1. Thomas Walters and Sudie Meredith marriage bond (September 17, 1912)

  2. Page 33 of the document ‘Colored Marriages 1866-1913’. 

  3. Thomas Walters and Sudie Meredith Walters headstone

  4. 'Mama' Florence Walters Carter (1914-1987) -daughter of Mabel

  5. James Carter - husband of Florence

  6. Arthur Walters (1918-2010) - son of Mabel

  7. Arthur Walters is celebrated

  8. William Richard Walters (1920-2006) - son of Mabel

Walters-Carter Family History

A member of Walters-Carter family published a family history on pages 10 thru 12 of the February 2005 edition of the LaRue County Record.

Walter Thomas Meredith (1909-1940) and Virgil Meredith (1920-1940) - Sons of Sudie

Two of Sudies' sons died as a result of a tragic automobile accident near Elizabethtown, KY on July 14, 1940.  William Thomas died immediately from injuries sustained, but Virgil died the following day from his injuries.  Virgil and William were first cousins to the wife of Eddie Phillips and also cousins to Maude Cowherd Ford.

Jesse Otis Meredith (1913-1985) - Ninth Child of Sudie and His Children

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  1. Jesse Otis Meredith obituary

  2. Otis Meredith (1940-2015) obituary

  3. Catherine Meredith Williams (1941-2014)

  4. Joseph Nathan Meredith (1943-2015)

  5. William Charles Meredith (1945-2009)

  6. Margaret Meredith (high school) 1947 -

  7. Sherry Lynn Meredith (high school) 1951 -

Blonde Meredith (1908-1961) - Sixth Child of Sudie and His Children

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  1. Blonde Meredith and Gertrude Compton marriage bond - September 10, 1927

  2. Lorena Meredith Kilgore Rice (1931-2009)

  3. Onia Meredith Lightfoot (1940-2014)

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