Samuel Meek



By Christopher A. Meek

1. Samuel Meek was born between 1794 and 1798 in Pennsylvania according to census information on himself and his sons. By the 1820 census of Chester TWP, Wayne Co., OH, it appears he was probably born as early as 1794 or from later census data perhaps a few years later, but before 1800. He is recorded living in Ohio in the 1820 and 1830 census in Chester Twp, Wayne Co., OH; and the 1840 Census in Vermillion Twp, Richland Co., OH. He is recorded in today’s Richland and Ashland County land records offices as buying land in 1834 in Vermillion Township and selling it in 1839. He died in Richland Co., OH, probably before newly created Ashalnd Co. absorbed Vermillion Twp in 1846. He married Elizabeth Oakley who’s father William Oakley is believed to have owned land in Wayne Co. close to Samuel and Elizabeth based on census information. Living descendants via his son Abraham presently farm within 5 miles by the crow from the property he once owned.

  • 2. Reason Meek was born 08 Aug 1822 in Wain Co., OH. He died 11 May 1891 in Maryville, MO. He married Matilda McIroy 1 Jan 1851 in Union Co., Ohio. She was born in 1828 in Harrison Co., OH. She died 14 Oct 1902 in Nodaway Co., MO. They are listed in the 1860 census of Union Co., OH. They moved to Blackhawk Co., IA in October 1864. In 1866 they moved to Nodaway Co., MO. They are listed in the 1870-1880 censuses of Nodaway Co., MO.
    • 11. Cassandra Meek was born 14 Dec 1851 in Union Co., OH. She died 20 March 1877 Nodaway Co., MO. She married James McGinnis 13 June 1869, Nodaway Co., MO. Children are listed with Reason in 1880 census.
      • 101. Abinnah C. McGinness was born 15 August 1871, died 29 Dec 1871, and is buried alongside his mother in the Wilcox Cemetery, Nodaway Co., MO.
      • 102. Florence Margaret McGinness was born 5 Jan 1874. She died 17 Dec 1930 in Aurora, MO. She married Daniel C. Adams 2 October 1895 in Nodaway County, MO. He was born 31 March 1870 and died 8 March 1930. They had four children:
        • A. Chestnut Adams was born 14 June 1896 and died 20 October 1964.
        • B. Jim Madison Adams was born 8 June 1898 and died 12 October 1918 from influenza.
        • C. Joe Scott Adams was born 9 August 1907 and died April 1983.
        • D. Cassie Florence Adams was born about 1914.
      • 103. Reason McGinness was born 12 Sep 1876. He died 15 Nov 1959. He married Mabel Estella Wilson 17 August 1898 in Maryville, Nodaway Co., Missouri. She was born 15 October 1881 and died 7 August 1948. They had eleven children.
    • 12. James Marmon Meek was born 28 Sep 1852 in Union Co., OH. He died 14 Sep 1922 in Centralia, KS. He married Sarah Ann Denny 3 July 1879 in Nodaway Co., MO. She was born in 1861 in Nodaway County and died 27 Jun 1939 in Kansas City, MO. He moved to Nodaway Co., MO in 1866 from Blackhawk Co., IA after moving there from Ohio in 1864. They are listed in the 1880 census of Nodaway Co., MO. They moved to Nemaha Co., Kansas in 1882. They are listed in the 1900-1920 censuses of Nemaha Co., KS. They are buried in Lot 313, Centralia, KS.
      • 111. Leslie K. Meek was born 23 Jan 1881. He died 21 Jan 1935. He married Bertha O'Brien of Humboldt, KS. They are both buried in Ponca City Masoleum, Ponca City, Oklahoma.
        • 221. James Robert Meek was born 16 Aug 1909 Kansas City, Missouri. He died 21 Nov 2003, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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      • 112. Lois Mae Meek was born 1 Feb 1884. She died in 1953. She married Zephry E. Noland. He was born 13 Nov 1881 and died Mar 1963. He died in 1963. Both are buried in the Sedalia Church Cemetery, Riley County, KS.
      • 113. Reason A. Meek was born 3 Sep 1885. He died in 1958. He married Grace Taylor.
      • 114. William D. Meek was born 26 Aug 1887. He died from blood poising in June 1894 and is buried in Lot 313, Centralia, KS, with his family.
      • 115. Cassie Myrtle Meek was born 3 Jun 1892. She died 2 Oct 1948. She married Antoine Labbe 27 Feb 1912.
      • 116. infant son was born 1894 and died 1894. He is buried in family Lot 313 in Centralia, KS.
      • 117. Samuel Glen Meek was born 30 Mar 1896. He died 12 Jan 1974. He married four times. He is buried Crane Masonic Cemetery, Crane, MO.
      • 118. Margaret Blanche Meek was born 16 Feb 1899. She died 1 Jan 1991. She married Charles Elva Brown. He died in 1965.
    • 13. John M. Meek was born 15 February 1855. He never married. He died 27 Match 1939, in Nemaha Co., Kansas, and was buried in the James M. Meek family lot, #313, Centralia Cemetery, Kansas. He is listed in the 1920 and 1930 censuses as John M. Meek, and is first recorded in 1860 census at age 5 in Union Co., Ohio.
    • 14. Samuel S. Meek was born 22 May 1858 in Union Co., OH. He married Jessie M. Miller 20 October 1886 in Westmoreland, KS. She was born 2 July 1866 in New York and died 2 July 1935. He died in 1935, and they are buried in Centralia Cemetery, Centralia, KS.
      • 121. Alice G. Meek was born 23 May 1889 in Nemaha County, KS. She died after 29 Mar 1968.
      • 122. Hazel Meek was born 23 April 1896 in Kansas and died May 1975 in Arizona. She married James W. Byrkit II in 1924 in Arizona, and they had one child, James Ward Byrkit, III (17 Jun 1931-25 Sep 2011).
      • 123. Paul Meek was born 28 Apr 1898 in Kansas. He died 26 Nov 1929 in Kansas. He was buried Lot 431, Centralia Cemetery, Centralia, KS.
      • 124. Earl C. Meek was born 25 August 1902. He died July 1980. He was buried Lot #431, Centralia Cemetery, Centralia, KS.
    • 15. Jay Q. Meek was born 12 Apr 1860 in Union Co., OH. He died 12 Mar 1940 in Nodaway Co., MO. He married Nellie E. Nicholas 10 Jul 1887, Nodaway Co., MO. She was born in 1867 and died in 1957. Both are buried in Ohio Cemetery at Burlington Junction, MO.
      • 131. George Q. Meek was born 10 Jun 1888 and died 19 Dec 1918.
      • 132. John Floyd Meek was born 8 Oct 1890. He died 4 May 1971. Both are buried in Ohio Cemetery at Burlington Junction, MO. He married Pearl B. Wise on 14 May 1914.
        • 201. Robert Lynn Meek was born in 1915. He died in 1990. He married Theodora Ware. She was born in 1919.
          • 301. John Robert Meek was born 2 Aug 1942. He died 14 Sep 2010.
        • 202. Imogene Meek was born in 1916. She died 13 Sep 2007. She married Joseph Wilson Carter, and they had five children.
        • 203. Marilyn Meek was born 1 Jun 1919 in Maryville, MO. She died 13 Jan 2011 in Maryville. She married (1) Rex Johnson in 1941 She married (2) Harlan Wilford Hardin 9 Jun 1955.
        • 204. Richard Floyd Meek was born in 1921. He died 23 Aug 1981.
        • 205. James Donald Meek was born 1924. He died 14 Aug 1994.
      • 133. James Evans Meek was born 17 Feb 1893 and died 4 April 1959. He was buried in Ohio Cemetery at Burlington Junction, MO. He married Clara Alcorn about 1928. She was born about 1895 in New Jersey. She died in 1983 and is buried Burlington Junction, MO. They were listed in the 1930 census of Madison Co., NY.
        • 206. Martha E. Meek was born about 1929 in New York
      • 134. Jay Donnell Nicholas Meek was born 14 Aug 1910. He died 14 Oct 1983 in Washington, D. C. He married Gertrude Virginia Baugher. She was born 29 Jan 1913. She died 13 Oct 1983 in Washington, D. C.. Both buried on 17 October 1983 in Virginia.
        • 211. Jay Baugher Meek was born 8 Mar 1948.
    • 16. Nancy Elizabeth Meek was born 18 Nov 1863 in Union Co., OH. She died 9 Jun 1925. She married William E. U. Miller 3 Jul 1890. They lived in Potawatamie Co., KS. They were divorced about 1920.
      • 141. Scott Miller was born 17 Sep 1891 in Missouri. He died 22 Aug 1928 in Kansas. He married Nina Stout 2 Oct 1915. She was born 14 Nov 1891. She died 7 Aug 1941 in Montana.
        • 231. Galen Edison Miller was born 12 Dec 1916. He died 7 Aug 1941 in the same automobile accident as his mother.
      • 142. Osie Elizabeth was born 11 Jun 1893 in Kansas. She died 1 Nov 1985 in Kansas. She married Robert F. J. Knox, Jr. 26 Apr 1916. He was born 7 Jul 1891. He died 24 Sep 1957.
        • 232. Gwyndora Ruth Knox was born 30 Jul 1919. She died 11 Feb 2003. She married Charles Herman Olson 16 Jun 1940. He was born 22 Sep 1917. He died 7 May 2003.
        • 233. Robert M. Knox was born 18 Dec 1916, Westmoreland, KS. He died 26 February 2013, Tucson, AZ.He lived in Des Moines, IA in 1985.
      • 143. Jacob (Jake) Miller was born 12 Jan 1895 in Kansas. He died 20 Mar 1955 at Springfield, MO. He married Erma Madeline Evans 23 Dec 1923 in Montgomery Co., KS. She was born 4 May 1905 in Illinois. She died Jul 1932 at Independence, Montgomery Co., KS. He was living with his father in the 1920 Census of Montgomery Co., KS.
        • 234. Gloria Mae Miller was born 17 Nov 1926 in Kansas. She died 18 Apr 1998 in Indiana. She married William L. Goodbar
        • 235. Robert Eugene Miller was born 25 May 1930 in Coffeyville, Montgomery Co., KS. He died 24 May 2010 in Coffeyville, Montgomery Co., KS. He married Margie Moberly 28 April 1954 in Coffeyville, KS.
      • 144. William E. (Billy) Miller was born about 1901 in Kansas. He died in 1977 in Tulsa according to the Social Security Index.
  • 3. Abraham Meek was born April 1825 and died in Ashland Co., OH on 4 Oct 1904. He married Sarah Jane Harris on 14 Oct 1858 in Ashland Co., OH. She was born in 15 Mar 1840. She died in 1906. They were listed in the 1860-1900 censuses of Greene Twp., Ashland Co., OH. They are buried in the Bethel Chapel Cemetery, Greene Twp., Ashland Co. OH. He lived without the "s" his entire life according to his family Bible and present-day living descendants, but others added the "s" on his tombstone and his children likewise had tombstones with the "s". His children’s names and birth dates come from his family Bible located in the first half of the year 2005.
    • 21. William H. Meeks was born 4 July 1858 and died 14 July 1920. He married Sara A. Frontz.
    • 22. Sarah Eellen Meek was born 10 March 1860 and died after 1900.
    • 23. Zachariah Meeks was born 19 September 1861 and died 12 July 1911 in Ashland County. He is buried alongside of his parents.
    • 24. Mariah Meek was born 28 February 1863 and died in 1945. She married James A. Whittenmire.
    • 25. James Meeks was born 28 December 1865 and died 16 February 1917. He married Serena Angeline Spade.
    • 26. Emmy Elizabeth Meek was born about 1867 in Ohio. She married John J. Frontz.
    • 27. Harriet Meek was born 2 Sep 1867 and died 27 February 1944. She married Alexander C. Whittenmire.
    • 28. Samuel Meeks was born 19 March 1871 and died 1 December 1932 and is buried in the Hayesville, Ashland County cemetery. He married Viola M. Carver.
    • 29. Nancy Meek was born 29 January 1873 and died after 1900.
  • 4. Aaron Meek
  • 5. William Meek was born about 1840 in Ohio. He is listed in the 1880 census of Nodaway Co., MO living with James M. Meek.
  • 6. Zachariah Meek was born about 1842. He is listed in the 1850 Census living with the Slagel or Hagel family at age 9. The 1860 Census lists him living in Union Co., OH with his brother Reason Meek at age 18. He died 12 November 1862 in hospital at Harper’s Ferry, VA, after serving in the 66th Ohio Infantry Volunteer Regiment (Ref: History of Union Co., Ohio, military records).
  • 7. Rachel Meek
  • 8. Mariah Meek

Data provided by Jon Meek

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