Artist

Cheever Meaders

born Cleveland, GA 1887-died Cleveland, GA 1967
Born
Cleveland, Georgia, United States
Died
Cleveland, White County, Georgia, United States
Biography

Cheever Meaders's father, John Milton, founded Meaders Pottery in 1893 in Mossy Creek, Georgia. Cheever and his brothers---Wiley, Caulder, Cleater, and Casey---all helped in the pottery, using locally dug clay and an old mule-powered mill that, according to Cheever, "ain't as fast as grinding it with a machine, but I don't care about hurrying anymore" (The Meaders Family, North Georgia Potters, 1967, Smithsonian Folklife Studies).