Yet more Meigs stuff...

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: : : : : : The Pastor wrote -- : : : : Nice to meet you, Mr. Meigs. Never met another Steve Meigs before. : : : : I also lived in LA for a few years. From your college dating I would guess you 4 years or so older than me. I am 44. : : : : I read all of your prose, which was quite interesting. Are you still acting? : : : : Are you interested in Meigs family history at all? I was relatively uninterested up until the last four years. Burying my father in 1996 near General Montgomery Meigs in Arlington National Cemetery (on Meigs Avenue) sparked my interest. : : : : There is also a present-day General Montgomery Meigs, who commands the U.S. forces in Bosnia. : : : *************** : : : Yes, I'm still acting. I work with the local repertory theatre. And I play music! Maybe we should get together and jam. Call it Steve Meigs squared! : : : One of my uncles is very interested in Meigs history. There are books out there. : : : You and I are probably distantly related. I've never been a pastor, though I play a priest in Reba McIntyre's video of "The Night The Lights : : : Went Out In Georgia" ( a brief scene toward the end of the video). : : : Five years older than you. : : : And there is yet another Steve Meigs. In Delaware, I believe. He's the most eccentric one of the three of us. : : : Are you related to the Meigs who was the chairman of the Federal Bank of Los Angeles? : : : I met him while working downtown in L.A. in the late 1980s. Tall fellow. Very nice. : : : And I remember seeing somewhere about another Steve Meigs who was involved in the movie business as a producer or something. : : : From what I can tell, all Meigses are related. Still, if we were named after our mothers and not our fathers, I would be a Hamilton and you would be...? : : : And there is Gerald Ford's son "Steve Meigs Ford" and "Andrew Meigs Haig." : ************ : : Man, I thought one Steve Meigs was all the world could handle! Now what are we going to do? Oh well, maybe this will be an interesting affair! Who knows? From the Bill Rogers who did not run the Boston Marathon or wear a cowboy hat. : ++++++++++++ : Yes, Bill, I'm afraid it's all very scary. Today, obscurity. Tomorrow, the world! : Steve, I don't know the chairman of the federal bank, but I have met many other Meigs (and close relatives Alger/Taylor) lately as the result of a rededication of the monuments at Arlington National Cemetery recently restored through a very successful fund raising effort my mother organized. The day long event began with the actual ceremony at the cemetery and ended with a symposium at the National Building Museum (formerly the Pension Building) which General Meigs built - a very impressive structure. He also built the Washington aqueduct system, the Cabin John Bridge (now renamed the American Legion Bridge, I think) and the dome of the Capitol. : There is a great book about General Meigs by Russell Weigley titled "Quartermaster General of the Union Army" which is now out of print and usually carries a high price tag. I have located and purchased a number of them for family members on the internet. I have found a number of good copies between $55-75, but most are priced well over $100 (which is too rich for my blood). : There is also a new Gen. Meigs book which contains the works of a number of historians who have studied him, but the release date has been delayed from its original 1998 target. This book is largely a compilation of speakers at past symposiums on General Meigs. : There is also a book about the General's family being completed now by an author named Carmen Brissette, I believe. She has approached it from more of a personal viewpoint, focusing on characterizations through the specific incidents she recounts. Listening to her tell stories from her book at the symposium, I am convinced it will be very interesting indeed. : Regarding our mothers, mine was a Troxel, or rather "Trachsel" originally, as her family came from the Swiss village of Lenk. We visited there the summer of 1998 - a very beautiful place. : My mother has talked to General Haig, and he really has no clue how he is related to the Meigs, and doesn't seem to have the time to research it. Apparently most of the Haigs kept very poor family records after coming to the U.S. from Scotland, and we've had no luck investigating Gen. Alexander's branch of the Haig family. There is one branch of the Haigs in New England that kept good records, but most kept no records, apparently. : (BTW, I corrected a typo in my former post: I buried my father in 1996, not 1987. What was I thinking???)

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