Col. Meredith HELM, Jr.

Abt 1725 - Aft 1750  (~ 25 years)

• Name	Meredith HELM
  Title	Col.
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	Abt 1725
  Gender	Male
  AFN	1P5R-QVB
  Name	Meredith HELMS
  Death	Aft 2 Oct 1750	Frederick County, VA
  Notes	(1) Outline of the Family Line of Leonard Helm of Frederick Co., Va., with a Focus on the Descendants of Leonard's Son, Meredith \<http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~helmsnc/genealogy/leonardhelmssubset.html\>: Col. Meredith Helm Abt 1725 - Abt 1750 +Elizabeth Neill Abt 1732 - Abt 1778. This corrects an error by Cartmell, found by Conkwright restudying Bible records. Cartmell had reversed the marriages of the Neill sisters Eliz. and Margaret who m. Maj. Thomas Helm. . . . The Cartmell ref. is "Shenandoah Valley and it's Pioneers". (2) O'Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, p. 232: John [Neill] . . . mentioned [in his will] his son-in-law Meredith Helms who owned 405 acres on the Opequon, adjacent south of John's 400-acre Mill land.
  Person ID	I10470	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Maj. Meredith HELM, Sr.,   b. Abt 1700   d. Bef 5 Apr 1756, Frederick County, VA (Age ~ 56 years)
  Mother	Ann (HELM)
  Family ID	F4829	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth NEILL,   b. Abt 1732   d. Abt 1778, Frederick County, VA (Age ~ 46 years)
  Notes	(1) According to several sources, Meredith HELM married Margaret NEILL, not her sister, Elizabeth NEILL. See: (a) Jolliffe, William, Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical Account of the Jolliffe Family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893, Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893, p. 182-183: Elizabeth [Neill] . . . married Thomas Helm, a brother of Meredith, . . . and . . . Margaret . . . married Meredith Helm. . . . (b) Cartmell, T. K., Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants, Winchester, VA: Eddy Press Corporation, 1909, p. 471: Meredith [Helm] married Margaret Neill; and Thomas [Helm] married Elizabeth Neill. (c) O'Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, p. 232: Thomas Helms . . . [was] husband of . . . Margaret Neill. (2) Meredith HELM is shown here as the husband of Elizabeth NEILL, not her sister, Margaret NEILL, based upon a study of Bible records. See "Outline of the Family Line of Leonard Helm of Frederick Co., Va., with a Focus on the Descendants of Leonard's son, Meredith" \<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~helmsnc/ leonardhelmssubset.html\>: Col. Meredith Helm Abt 1725 - Abt 1750 +Elizabeth Neill Abt 1732 - Abt 1778. This corrects an error by Cartmell, found by Conkwright restudying Bible records. Cartmell had reversed the marriages of the Neill sisters Eliz. and Margaret who m. Maj. Thomas Helm. . . . The Cartmell ref. is "Shenandoah Valley and it's Pioneers".
  Family ID	F4904	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024