James Meek


By Christopher A. Meek

13. James Meek was born on 13 Jun 1774. He served in the military in 1813/14 in War of 1812 (Capt. in the 5th Regt. of VA militia). He signed a will on 9 Sep 1832 in Washington Co., VA. He died in 1833. He had an estate probated on 27 Jan 1834 in Washington Co., VA.

He married Spicy Walker on 8 Nov 1792. Her tombstone gives her husbands as James son of Joseph. She died on 20 Jul 1821. James Meek and Spicy Walker had the following children:

  • 111. Mary Meek was born in 1792 in Virginia. She married David Snodgrass 24 Jul 1809.
  • 112. Lydia Meek was born 9 Jan 1793. She married William Riley 30 Jun 1812.
  • 113. Dicy Meek was born 22 Jun 1794. She married William Bryan.
  • 114. Lusarrne (Susan) Meek was born 2 May 1796. Name Louisanna in one source. She married Abraham Hayter Allison 11 Jun 1810.
  • 115. Jane Meek was born 24 Mar 1798. She married Richard Roe .
  • 116. Hiram C. Meek was born on 24 Apr 1800 in Virginia. (other date of 22 Apr 1792) He died 9 Oct 1881. He operated a saw mill in Lexington, KY about 1828 to 1839. At age 93, (in 1885) he was living in California. Was with brothers Joseph and Stephen in the west. He married Rachel Lighter on 24 Dec 1826. She was born in 1804.
    • 231. Charles M. Meek was born about 1827 in Lafayette Co., MO. He died 1815 in California. He married Susie Robinson.
      • 321. Imogene Meek was born about 1871. She died 1872.
      • 322. herbert Meek was born about 1875. She died 1913.
      • 323. Amber Meek was born about 1878. She died 1918.
      • 324. Flora Meek
      • 326. Don Meek
    • 232. George W. Meek was born about 1831.
    • 233. Imozine Meek was born about 1833.
    • 234. Melissa D. Meek
    • 235. Mary Meek was born about 1836.
    • 236. John A. Meek was born about 1844.
    • 237. James B. Meek was born about 1846.
    • 238. Laura Meek was born about 1848.
  • 117. Spicy Meek was born on 15 Apr 1802. She married Finley Orr in 1828. He was born in 1798. He resided in Monroe Co., TN.
  • 118. James W. Meek was born on 24 Jan 1804. He died in Dalton, GA. He married Spicy Daughtery
  • 119. Fanny Meek was born 27 Mar 1808. She married George Day.
  • 120. Joseph Lafayette Meek was born on 8 Feb 1810. He died on 20 Jun 1875. Entered fur trapping business March 17, 1829, traveling from St. Louis to the mountains with W. L. Sublette, later entering what is now Yellowstone Park. First U. S. Marshal of Oregon Territory. In 1848 made a trip to Washington to ask for protection from Indians; there visited in the White House with President Polk, who was a relative of his mother. Elected to Legislature 1846-1847. He married Virginia Kowesote. She was born in 1820. She died on 5 Mar 1900. Her father was a Nez Perce Indian Sub-Chief.
    • 251. Courtney Walker Meek was born 7 Dec 1838. He died on 13 Jun 1896 in Hillsbboro, OR.. He married Adel Newton on 24 Sep 1878. She was born 7 Jull 1851. She died 26 Nov 1921.
      • 327a. Josephine Meek was born about 1879. She died 19 Sep 1889.
      • 327b. George Meek died 28 Feb 1890.
      • 327c. Lenora Meek was born 17 May 1890.
      • 327d. Clella M. Meek was born 24 Feb 1893.
    • 252. Hiram Meek was born 3 Feb 1842. He died on 13 May 1896.
    • 253. Olive Louise Meek was born 3 May 1844. She died on 16 Oct 1928. She married William J. Riley on 24 Sep 1878.
    • 254. Josephine Meek was born 25 Oct 1845. She died 22 Dec 1860.
    • 255. Dallas Meek was born 11 Sep 1847. He died in 1858.
    • 256. Mary Lane Meek was born 28 Mar 1850. She died in 1878.
    • 257. Jennie Meek was born 25 Dec 1852. She married Charles Newhard on 15 Apr 1873.
    • 258. Joseph Lane Meek was born on 6 Oct 1855. He died on 24 Oct 1920. He married Katherine Ann Anderson on 26 Jun 1895. She was born 30 Jun 1876. She died 30 Jul 1941. They are buried at Fletcher, ID.
      • 371. Martin Fisher Meek was born 19 Sep 1897. He died 3 Apr 1968. He married Ida E. Whitfield 12 Jul 1926.
      • 372. Virginia May Meek was born 12 Aug 1899. She died 25 Jan 1901.
      • 373. Joseph Lafayette Meek was born 16 Oct 1901 near Fletcher, ID. He died 15 Jan 1974 in Maryland. He married Alice Lillian Edwards 13 Nov 1924 in Washington, D. C. She was born 3 Sep 1900. He served in the Army Medical Corp and was stationed at Walter Reed Hospital. He was a police office and later operated a hotel in Washington, D. C. He was a major Meek genealogical researcher and provided significant data on the Guy Meek family to other researchers.
      • 374. John Frederick Meek was born 28 Jun 1904. He died 2 Dec 1976. He married Florence Petty 28 Jun 1925.
      • 375. Stephen Meek was born 16 Jun 1906 near Fletcher, ID. He died 18 Jun 1956 in Fletcher, ID. He married Kathleen L. Fooden 4 Jun 1929.
        • 471. Steve Meek was born 8 Sep 1953.
      • 376. Leatha Meek was born 11 Apr 1912. She married Oswald R. Johnson.
      • 377. Lela Meek was born 11 Apr 1912. She married Hernert L. Jackson
      • 378. Gertie Olive Meek was born 21 Aug 1914. She died 19 Jan 1980. She married Henry Duuck.
    • 259. Stephen Arnold Meek was born on 20 Dec 1857 near Hillsboro, OR. He died on 19 Feb 1943 in Hillsboro, OR. He married Gertie A. Pasley 26 Feb 1896.
      • 381. Robert McKinley Meek was born 1 Mar 1897.
        • 472. Robert Charles Meek was born 16 Feb 1927. He died 11 May 1927. +1156
        He married (2) Celesta L. Holman.
        • 473. Carolyn M. Meek was born 11 Nov 1936.
      • 382. Clarence Orville Meek was born 11 Nov 1898. He died 9 Oct 1980 in Washington Co., OR. He married Eva Cropp 11 Oct 1917.
        • 474. Marjorie Marie Meek was born 4 Apr 1918.
        • 475. Vincent Clarence Meek was born 26 mar 1921. +1159
      • 383. Stephen A. D. Meek was born 3 Oct 1900. He died 16 May 1967. He married Hildegarde Kuchler in 1923.
        • 476. Stephen A. Meek was born 18 Dec 1924. +1160
      • 384. Alice Martha Meek was born 2 Jul 1902.
      • 385. Ruth V. Meek was born 14 Feb 1904.
      • 386. Gertie Alcene Meek was born 17 Mar 1906.
      • 387. Pasley Nesmith Meek was born 14 Feb 1908.
      • 388. Joseph Lafayette Meek was born 10 Jan 1910. He married He married (1) Mary Brisbine. He married (2) Dorothy M. Brisbine
        • 477. Joseph Lafayette Meek was born 5 May 1938. +1170
        • 478. David Lane Meek was born 27 Apr 1949. +1171
      • 389. Melvin Ellis Meek (AKA John) was born 21 Feb 1912. He married (1) Fern Mayfield. They were divorced.
        • 479. Richard A. Meek was born 17 Apr 1932. +1172
        • 480. Marvin M. Meek was born 30 Apr 1935. +
        • 481. Betty Joann Meek was born 13 Jan 1937.
        He married (2) Elizabeth C. Brennan 4 Jan 1946.
        • 482. Joyce Anne Meek was born 19 Feb 1947.
        • 483. Janet Ilene Meek was born 23 May 1949.
        • 484. John Ellis Meek was born 4 Sep 1950. +
      • 390. Mildred Marie Meek was born 2 Apr 1914.
      • 392. James Allen Meek was born 29 Aug 1918. He died 25 Oct 1955. He married Hermie Lillian Sahnow 1 Sep 1941.
        • 485. Jesse James Meek was born 23 Dec 1946. +1181
        • 486. Michael Allen Meek was born 12 Jun 1951.
    • 260. William Meek was born 17 Feb 1860. He died on 17 Feb 1860.
    • 261. Elizabeth Meek was born 24 Augn 1861. She died 23 Jul 1876.
  • 121. Stephen Hall Meek was born 6 Nov 1812 in Washington Co., VA. He died 11 Jan 1889 in Etna, CA. He was a pioneer of the N. W. United States. He married Elizabeth R. Schoonover on 18 May 1845 in Kansas. She was born on 16 May 1828 in Canada. She died on 31 Oct 1865.
    • 262. Spicey Jane Meek was born 13 Oct 1846.
    • 263. Milissa Meek was born 6 Nov 1848 in Oregon. She died 6 Feb 1850.
    • 264. Stephen Alonzo Meek was born 1 Dec 1850 in Oregon City, OR. He Married Mina Nieman 12 Apr 1877.
      • 393. Ida Estella Meek was born about 1879.
      • 394. Neva Della Meek was born about 1880.
      • 395. Effie May Meek was born about 1883.
      • 396. Myrtle Ninia Meek was born about 1885.
      • 397. William Stephen Meek was born about 1887. He died young.
      • 398. Elaie Elma Meek was born about 1891.
    • 265. John Robert Meek was born on 16 Feb 1853 at St. Cruize, CA. He died 27 May 1855.
    • 266. Mary E. Meek was born 5 Aug 1855.
    • 267. Estella Davis Meek was born 24 Oct 1857 at St. Cruize, CA.
    • 268. George Matthew Meek was born 17 Dec 1859. He died 19 Aug 1924. He married Matilda Martha Meamber 7 Jan 1885.
      • 359. Grace Delia Meek was born 6 Oct 1886.
      • 360. Stephen John Meek was born 9 Apr 1893. He married Mary Urcell
        • 487. Stephen John Meek was born in 1920. +1187
      • 369. George Jackson Meek was born 19 Nov 1894.
    • 269. Lizzie Ann Meek was born 25 Oct 1861.
    • 270. Ida Rosina Meek was born 20 Aug 1864 Amador Co., CA.
  • 122. Hannah Meek was born 11 Jun 1815. Wrote letter to brother Joseph 1849. She married John R. James. They resided in 1853 in Oregon.
  • 123. Charles Windell Meek was born on 21 Jan 1819. He died on 17 Dec 1876. He married Sarah A Hale on 8 Jul 1841. She was born on 17 May 1823. She died on 5 Mar 1908.
    • 271. James H. Meek was born 1 May 1842. He died 21 Aug 1869. He married Eliza Jennie Hensley She died in Emberville, TN.
      • 320. William Meek
    • 272. Daniel Kenney Meek was born 28 Feb 1844. He died on 6 Apr 1875 in San Francisco. Not married.
    • 273. Joseph Douglas Meek was born 16 Apr 1846. He died on 4 Jun 1864 in the Civil War.
    • 274. William Blair Meek was born 31 May 1848.
    • 275. Florence Cornelius Meek was born 14 Aug 1850.
    • 276. Sarah Hale Meek was born 30 Oct 1852. She died 2 Oct 1855.
    • 277. Mary Immogene Meek was born 16 Dec 1854. She died 26 Sep 1855.
    • 278. Sallie Cunningham Meek was born 29 Mar 1857. She died 26 Apr 1859.
    • 279. Ida Sevier Meek was born 28 Oct 1858. She died 14 Jun 1894. She married Jacob Orville Lotspeich
      • A. Claude Meek
      • B. Roy Douglas
      • C. Edgar Sevier
      • D. Ida Sevier Meek
    • 280. Ellen Douglas Meek was born 18 Aug 1860.
    • 281. Charles Wendell Meek was born 27 May 1862. He died 12 Sep 1912. He married Ivada Jewell 1 May 1894.
      • 370. Jewell Douglas Meek was born 24 Aug 1895.
      • 379. Joseph Franklin Meek was born 22 Feb 1897. He married Neva Ruth Hall.
        • 488. Jewell Belle Meek was born 1 Jun 1926.
        • 489. Lillian Meek was born 19 Dec 1927.
        • 490. Juanita May Meek was born 6 Dec 1929.
        • 491. Billy Joe Meek was born 8 Apr 1931.
        • 492. Clarence Lee Meek was born 23 Mar 1933.
        • 493. Martha Jean Meek was born 28 Feb 1939.
        • 494. Bobby Gay Meek was born 6 Mar 1942.
        • 495. James Frank Meek was born 12 Dec 1945.
      • 380. Sarah Lillian Meek was born 11 Aug 1900.
    • 282. Franklin Hale Meek was born 9 Mar 1867.
      • 399a. Charles W. Meek was born 6 Jan 1900.
      • 399b. Bathurst L. Meek was born 6 Jan 1900. He married Grace L. Tarver 12 Dec 1922.
        • 496. Bathurst Lee Meek was born 3 Jul 1924. +1216
        • 497. Olden Barneveldt Meek was born 30 Jul 1925. +
        • 498. Meriwether Page Meek was born 21 Mar 1934.
    • 283. Joseph Munsey Meek was born 9 Mar 1867. He died 14 Nov 1923. He married Alda Burty Hughes 26 Apr 1897.
      • 399c. James Hughes Meek was born 20 Sep 1905. He married Mabel Sadler Aug 1937.
      • 399d. Sarabell Meek was born 22 Jan 1909.
  • 124. Samuel Meek Source for this person is unknown. He may not belong to this family.

He married Nancy Yearsley about 1822.

Disclaimer: This genealogy was prepared by the author using undocumented and/or unverified sources. Some facts presented here MAY NOT be correct. Never accept as factual any information you find in a library, the Internet or from other genealogist unless it is supported by documentation. Documentation DOES NOT include the undocumented genealogies of other people including those on this web site.

Some information has been taken from The Meek Family of Washington Co., VA by Danny Morris Fluhart, 1989. This book contains the research of the prominent Meek genealogist Joseph L. Meek of Washington, D.C.

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