Researching Eli Oatman Meacham, b. 1823 in Ellisburg NY. Physician in Rochester IA and Rock Island IL 1850s. Married Isabel Jane Giddings 1854. They had 9 children? Lived in Mount Carroll IL in 1860s-70s.
Some family trees record his death in 1872, Crawford Co. KS. Have not found an obituary, death certificate or grave.