ABOUT

I am Catherine Meehan Blount, the youngest grandchild of Charles and Hester Freeman Meehan.

I began this work to honor my family, but it has grown into a calling to preserve the stories of a much larger community. Guided by faith and by the conviction of Psalm 71:17–18, I see this season of my life as an assignment: to gather what might otherwise be lost, to speak of God’s faithfulness, and to pass on the strength of those who came before us.

I am a genealogist by practice, not by formal training, shaped by years of research into families whose histories stretch across the United States and Canada. My work draws together documents, letters, photographs, artifacts, migration patterns, DNA research, and oral histories to rebuild narratives often overlooked or misunderstood in mainstream accounts. These stories reveal a people who endured, migrated, resisted, intermarried, prayed, built, and hoped together — a people formed in the Americas, whose legacy deserves to be remembered.

This website is part archive, part meditation, and part offering. It reflects the questions I have asked, the trails I have followed, and the faith that steadies me as I continue to learn. Though much of this work began with the Meehan family, it extends to the broader communities intertwined with their lives — communities connected through kinship, circumstance, geography, and shared history.

I add new material as research continues and as God grants clarity and strength. My hope is that this site serves not only my own family but also anyone seeking to understand the many ways our ancestors shaped the world we inherited.

Thank you for visiting and for returning as this work unfolds.

Last updated: 1 November 2023

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