FIRST GENERATION

1. James Powhatan MEARS ⁽¹⁾ was born on Dec 2 1802 in N.C.. He died in 1886 in Foreman, Little River Co., Arkansas.

Mary Elizabeth RAWLS was born about 1813 in S.C.. She died in 1854 in Mississippi. James Powhatan MEARS and Mary Elizabeth RAWLS had the following children:

2 i. Polly MEARS was born in 1835 in Mississippi.
3 ii. Sarah MEARS was born in 1836 in Mississippi.
+4 iii. Mahaley MEARS.
5 iv. Elizabeth MEARS was born in 1842 in Mississippi.
+6 v. William Harrion MEARS.
+7 vi. Caroline MEARS.
8 vii. Eliza MEARS was born in 1847 in Smith Co., Mississippi.
+9 viii. Almeda MEARS.