Edward M. Meece

    Edward M. Meece was born February 23, 1842, in Warrick County, Indiana, and is the eldest of eight living children. William T. Meece, his father, was a native of Tennessee, and when a young man came to this county, where he married Clarissa Hood. He has followed agricultural pursuits through life, and from about war times to 1879 was employed as keeper of the poor of the county.

    Edward M. was reared by his parents to manhood, securing but a meager education. Shortly after the breaking out of hostilities between the North and the South he became a volunteer private in Company I, Fifty-third Regiment of Indiana Infantry, and after serving three years and six months was honorably discharged, wearing a Sergeant's chevrons. He served through the sieges of Corinth and Vicksburg and the battles of the Atlanta campaign, then was with Sherman's army on that memorable march to the sea. After the close of the war he returned to his native county and has since been engaged in farming. In 1884 he purchased a small farm south of Boonville, where he now resides comfortably situated.

    He is a Republican in politics, a member of the G. A. R. and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married October 19, 1865, to Nancy Montgomery, who died November 19, 1876, after bearing two children, both of whom are deceased. May 6, 1877, he wedded Malinda Montgomery, his present wife.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.