Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau a Meacham ki Chattanooga, Tennessee. Ko ona maatua ko Jere Ellis Meacham (1946<unk>2008), he kaihanga hanga me nga mahi-mahi i whakawhiwhia ki a ia mo te toa i te Pakanga o Vietnam, me Linda (McBrayer) Brodie. Ko ona tupuna tupuna, ko Ellis K. Meacham raua ko Jean Austin Meacham, i whakatipu i a ia i muri i te wehenga o ona maatua. I a ia e tamariki ana, i ia ata, ka kōrero tana tipuna ki tētahi rōpū tangata mō ngā kaupapa tōrangapū ā-rohe, ā-motu hoki. I te mutunga, i hiahia a Meacham ki nga mahi torangapu. I whakawhiwhia ia ki te tono a Ronald Reagan i te tau 1981
i Washington, D.C., hei whakautu ki te reta i tukuna e ia ki te perehitini-whakapono.