Lake County Obituaries

Goolsberry B. Meador

Submitted by Anita Crabtree

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Clear Lake Press, February 4, 1911

PIONEER G.B. MEADOR ENDS EVENTFUL LIFE.  
The harvest of the Grim Reaper has been a heavy one among the ripened lives of 
Lake county residents this winter. Within a very few months a regrettable number 
of pioneers have passed over the divide into the Unknown. Monday, death called 
an aged citizen of Scotts Valley, Goolsberry B. Meador, whose serious illness 
was noted in these columns a few weeks ago. It occurred at the home of Mr. and 
Mrs. G. A. Meador, where Mr. Meador has lived for several years. Deceased had 
reached ripe age of 87 years and 5 months, and his demise was due only to a 
general wearing out of his earthly tenement. In this connection it is 
interesting to note that Mr. Meador, who was a small and spare man, was told by 
doctors fifty years ago that he had no chance of living. While not very strong, 
he had been in fairly good health nearly up to the time of his death. 
Mr. Meador was a native of Tennessee; was married in 1847 to Miss Drusilla 
Young; came to California from Missouri in the gold rush of ‘49 and stayed in 
the mines for two years, returning to Missouri. In 1857 he was back in 
California with his family, mining in Trinity county for some time, and then 
moved to San Jose, where he lived until 1880. The Meadors then cam to Lake 
county, first settling on Tule Lake, Bachelor Valley, and barring short 
absences, Mr. Meador has lived in the county continuously since. 
Eight children survive the deceased, being Mrs. Thos. Patten, G. A. and W. J. 
Meador of Scotts Valley, G. B. and John Meador of San Jose, Mrs. Jane Stranahan 
of San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. Carrie Hobson of Weed, Siskiyou county; Mrs. Belle 
White of Hollister. The mother of the family died about eight years ago. A 
number of grandchildren and several great grandchildren are also left. 
Mr. Meador is remembered by his relatives and a host of friends as a square 
dealing and honest man, whose long life has been well spent in service for his 
family and his neighbors. He had for many years been a member of the Methodist 
church. 
A throng of old friends of the family attended the funeral, conducted by Rev. 
Shearer at the family home Wednesday morning and the interment at Hartley 
Cemetery.