He served in the Union cavalry in the Civil War. "Uncle Meck," to his family, never married. The family relates that he was an invalid amputee who once a year would strap on his prosthesis leg to go vote, but otherwise did not often leave the house.
His father Simon's stone is the short white one in the row depicted here. To the left of that is the stone for Americus and his unmarried sister Ida. To the left of that is the stone for their sister Anna E., who was the family genealogist who left partially obscure notes about the family.
The 1860 census for the household of his parents Simon and Sarah Redifer mistakenly lists Americus as "Marcia" and his sister Anna E. as "Hannah E."
The reference to his middle name here comes only from family records. It does not otherwise appear in public records.
According to cemetery records, Americus died of carcinoma of the bladder.
His father Simon's stone is the short white one in the row depicted here. To the left of that is the stone for Americus and his unmarried sister Ida. To the left of that is the stone for their sister Anna E., who was the family genealogist who left partially obscure notes about the family.
The 1860 census for the household of his parents Simon and Sarah Redifer mistakenly lists Americus as "Marcia" and his sister Anna E. as "Hannah E."
The reference to his middle name here comes only from family records. It does not otherwise appear in public records.
According to cemetery records, Americus died of carcinoma of the bladder.
He served in the Union cavalry in the Civil War. "Uncle Meck," to his family, never married. The family relates that he was an invalid amputee who once a year would strap on his prosthesis leg to go vote, but otherwise did not often leave the house.
His father Simon's stone is the short white one in the row depicted here. To the left of that is the stone for Americus and his unmarried sister Ida. To the left of that is the stone for their sister Anna E., who was the family genealogist who left partially obscure notes about the family.
The 1860 census for the household of his parents Simon and Sarah Redifer mistakenly lists Americus as "Marcia" and his sister Anna E. as "Hannah E."
The reference to his middle name here comes only from family records. It does not otherwise appear in public records.
According to cemetery records, Americus died of carcinoma of the bladder.
His father Simon's stone is the short white one in the row depicted here. To the left of that is the stone for Americus and his unmarried sister Ida. To the left of that is the stone for their sister Anna E., who was the family genealogist who left partially obscure notes about the family.
The 1860 census for the household of his parents Simon and Sarah Redifer mistakenly lists Americus as "Marcia" and his sister Anna E. as "Hannah E."
The reference to his middle name here comes only from family records. It does not otherwise appear in public records.
According to cemetery records, Americus died of carcinoma of the bladder.
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