Joshua Lawrence Meador

Josh Meador was born in Greenwood in 1911 and grew up in Columbus after his family moved there in 1918. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at first turned down a Disney interview because he wanted commercial art. At Disney he worked in the effects department, animating on Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi and Cinderella, and did the special effects for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Outside the studio he animated the Monster from the Id in Forbidden Planet. He died in California in 1965 and is buried in Friendship Cemetery.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 0.6 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Waverley Mansion — 6.6 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 15 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 26 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.

More markers nearby

• Walter "Red" Barber — steps away
• S. D. Lee Home — 0.2 mi
• Missionary Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi
• Franklin Academy — 0.3 mi