Bert Monroe Meadow

b. 22 September 1887, d. 15 January 1962
  • Bert Monroe Meadow was born on 22 September 1887 in Blocton, Bibb County, Alabama.
  • Albert Eli Meadow and Eunice Elizabeth Andrews appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Blocton, Bibb County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Bert Monroe Meadow, Percy Lamar Meadow, Josephine Elizabeth Meadow and Matilda Bailey. Also in the household were two domestic servants.
  • He married Evelyn Blue Adams, daughter of James Robert Adams and Caroline Catherine Cook, on 6 October 1909 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama.
  • Albert Eli Meadow and Eunice Elizabeth Andrews appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Bert Monroe Meadow, Percy Lamar Meadow, Josephine Elizabeth Meadow and Evelyn Blue Adams. Also in the household was one female domestic servant. Daughter-in-law Evelyn Blue Adams Meadow also is enumerated in her parents' household as an unmarried daughter.
  • Bert Monroe Meadow registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Jefferson County, Alabama, while living with his wife and child at 1028 South 26th in Birmingham, and employed there and in Chicago as sales manager of Mark Manufacturing Company. He reported having served for two years as a corporal in the Alabama National Guard Infantry.
  • Bert Monroe Meadow and Evelyn Blue Adams appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, at 1028 Sixth. Other members of the household included Evelyn Adams Meadow.
  • He was employed as a hardware salesman, according to the 1920 census.
  • Bert Monroe Meadow and Evelyn Blue Adams appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, at 1005 28th Place. Other members of the household included Evelyn Adams Meadow, Katherine Meadow and Eunice Elizabeth Andrews.
  • He was vice president of an ornamental iron company, according to the 1930 census.
  • Bert Monroe Meadow and Evelyn Blue Adams appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Mountain Brook, Jefferson County, Alabama, at 2900 Mountain Brook Parkway. Other members of the household included Evelyn Adams Meadow, Katherine Meadow and Eunice Elizabeth Andrews.
  • He was president of the Birmingham Ornamenta Iron Company, according to te 1940 census.
  • Bert Monroe Meadow died on 15 January 1962 at age 74 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama.
  • His wife Evelyn Blue Adams became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama.
  • The following appeared on 16 January 1962 in The Birmingham News: Bert Monroe Meadow, 74, of 2900 Mountain Brook Parkway, founder and head of the Birmingham Ornamental Iron Co., Inc. and Meadow Steel Products, Inc., died Monday at his home.
         Born in Blocton, Bibb County, Mr. Meadow was the son of Dr. Albert E. Meadow, a physician in Blocton and later in Birmingham.
         A 1904 graduate of Birmingham High School, now Phillips High, Mr. Meadow became connected with Birmingham industry while a young man.
         He rose to be a civic as well as industrial leader. In 1953, he was nominated as Birmingham's "Man of the Year." His first civic activity was selling bonds during World War I. He headed a committee which raised funds for Arlington, Birmingham Civil War shrine.
         He was president of Alabama Motorists Assn. several terms. Under his leadership, membership rose from 2,900 to 29,000. At the time of his death, he was vice president of American Automobile Assn.
         He was a member of First Church of Christ Scientist, Birmingham Kiwanis Club, Redstone Club, Downtown Club, The Club, Mountain Brook Club and Vestavia Country Club.
         Mr. Meadow and a partner founded Ornamental Iron Co. in the 1920s in Tarrant. The company was later moved to Birmingham. Meadow Steel Products was founded several years later.
         Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Adams Meadow; two daughters, Mrs. Richard LaBan, Englewood, N. J., and Mrs. William McTyeire of Birmingham; a brother, Percy Meadow of Jacksonville, Fla. and a sister, Mrs. Howard Walden of Palisades, N. J., and seven grandchildren.
         Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Johns-Ridout's Church Chapel. Burial will be in Elmwood. J. H. Trimble will officiate.
         Pallbearers will be Keener Greene, Harl Carter, S. T. Abel, Jeff Jackson, John Pugh, Ed Rogers, R. C. Jones, Russell Knight and William Hooks.
         Honorary pallbearers will be A. M. Shook, Thornton Estes, Chester A. Lord, T. M. Smith, J. Frank Parks, John C. Persons, David Roberts, Ed Norton, Thad Holt, Mark Hodo, W. B. Timmons, Francis Latardy, employes of Birmingham Ornamental Iron Co., directors of Meadow Steel Products, directors of Exchange Security Bank, directors of Alabama Motorists Association, members of Birmingham Kiwanis Club and Redstone Club.
  • Today Is Big With Blessings: Bert M. Meadow, His Life and Times, by Evelyn Adams Meadow, was published in 1967 by Birmingham Publishing Company for Southern University Press.
  • Last Edited: 3 Jul 2014

Family: Evelyn Blue Adams b. 3 August 1887, d. 24 September 1986