We learned “Meriweather” from Kathy Restle, the fiddler with the Indiana Rein Crows. She learned it from Bruce Greene, a western Kentucky fiddler. Bruce learned it from his friend Jake Phelps of Todd County, Kentucky, who died in the winter of 1977 at the age of 93. Jake had heard it from Will Stigall, who brought it to Todd County from the Jackson Purchase area in the southwest corner of Kentucky. As far as anyone seems to know, Meriweather was one of the old important family names of those that settled the southwest part of Kentucky.