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over a century.There tomorrow Meek will meet Meek and hundreds of members of this family will participate in a reunion and renew relationship, which in n-'mbers will aggregate between two hundred and fifty and three hundred.ThoBe who will gather in Decatur county's garden spot are the deacendunrs .»[ Thomas Meek and Martha Davis Meek, early settlers of Virginia, who when the Blue Grass State was in its infancy, moved near the “Dark and Bloody Grounds” made famous in history of Kentucky. There to bless this union’ were bom fifteen children and notable in this the pioneer grandfather with ten of hischildren all who lived to old age, are today sleeping peacefully un a gentle rising slope, in the Hoosier State, for they rest beneath the sod of (he beautiful burial place of the dead, the Springhili cemetery. The advent of Thomas Meek and his family was made in Indiana in 1820, they being amongst lie earliest settlers.Their’s was the i:rc of the esirlv; pioneer and in me Sprin'/hillneighborhood, then a total wilder . • ne68, Thomas Meek carved out ahome for his family and laid thefoundation for his descendants, aheritage that was to follow throughthe decades.From the time of th«- first advent into the Hooiier 6tatlt;. the Meekfllure is portrayeu aoove. uncie Tommy is the oldest living Meek, and enjoys the distinction lt;/f having lived longer than any of hia people, although the Meek family is a generation noted for its long-Wed people. Other members of bid family who Jived i-.» a ripe old age, were his sisters. Aunt Martha Braden and Mrs. Stewart, botn of wSi'.nt were called in their ninety-lira l year.As well as being the oldest living Meek, Dncle Tom, it might be said is also one of the most active. The weight of years to him is not a burden, lor as time has caressed, its touch has been as gentle as the summer zephyrs and at ninety-two he i- today '«ne of the young est old rneu this county has ever honored.He waa born «r Georgetown, Ky., AUy 2, lin. **■.! came to Indiana when but .1 .j.i -leven summers. He today is vigorous, both in mind nii t body, ind when in a re.uiniaeent mood, he retains mem-• .:d of past days, koo*a to the : *i-nL generation u* history, and with ehcl nn'ing inter-i low happy it is to hold a re L• a ion ot such u nature as will be!1one of the Meeks, and how Jjust each of those three hundred c 4 me odd members of this great family who will gather tomorrow, io homage to the grand old lady and gentleman who from their
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Greensburg News
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 05, 1908
Page 7
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Decatur P.
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