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CAPT. GOLDMAN G. MEADOR, of Cooper & Meador, farmers and stock-raisers, post-office Bower’s Mills, was born in Macon county, Tenn., July 25, 1826. His parents, Lewis and Sarah F. Meador, were natives of the Old Dominion. Our subject was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. In 1861 he enlisted in the Eighth Kentucky Infantry Volunteers, Col. Ben. Grider commanding, and served twelve months; he was then discharged because of disability, and re-enlisted in the First Tennessee Mounted Infantry, and was elected first lieutenant in Company E, and was mustered out at the end of one year; enlisted again in the Eighth Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteers, Colonel Cleveland commanding, and was elected captain of Company A, and served until the close of the war, when he was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., in August, 1865, and returned home. He came to Missouri in the fall of 1865, and located in Jasper county near where he now resides. He was married Nov. 23, 1851, to Miss Velira Cooper. From this union there are seven children: Arzila F., Sarah L., Lewis P., Jas. M., Bennet H., V. G., and Geo. Riley. Mrs. M. died March 24, 1881. Messrs. Cooper & Meador are now very pleasantly situated on a fine farm, well improved, a beautiful residence, large barn, and other out-buildings, and are counted among the most successful farmers of southwestern Missouri.