president of the Pi Alpha Phi debating organization. She was a professor and later assistant dean at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the Executive Secretary of the Adult Education Council. They had two sons, Kirby and Jere. Their son, Jere Ellis Meacham (1946–2008) attended The McCallie School and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He was awarded for valor during the Vietnam War and was a construction and labor-relations executive. He married twice, the latter of which was to Pamela. With his first wife, Linda, he had a son, Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek and a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Jon lived with his grandparents, Ellis and Jean Meacham, after his parents' divorce. References Further reading Contemporary Authors Online, 2003 Spears, Judy “Former Judge, Author Ellis K. Meacham Dies”, Chattanooga Times Free Press, August 18, 1998 External links Meacham Writer's Workshop 1913 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American historical novelists Nautical historical novelists Writers of historical fiction set in the modern age 20th-century American male writers