Yuma County, Colorado
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Yuma County Pioneers -
Joshua A. and Nora (Fitzgerald) Meek
, Eckley
Napoleon B. and Minnie Meek
, Vernon
In 1880 Hancock County, Indiana, Napoleon B. Meek is 39, Minnie 29, Oleo 11, and "Bertie" 7.
In 1880 Fremont County, Iowa,
William Fitzgerald is 48,
M. Fitzgerald
28 Wife,
Robert Fitzgerald 10 Son,
Mary Fitzgerald
8 Daughter,
Nora Fitzgerald
6 Daughter, and
Nelley Fitzgerald
2 Daughter.
1898 Wray "N.B. Meek, of Eckley, was in the city Saturday."
1899 Wray "Bert Meeks, wife and the babies were in from Eckley Thursday."
In 1898, Napoleon B. Meek of Eckley was a witness for the claim onf Algernon E. Miler for land in 21, 1N 45W.
When Napoleon filed for land in 23, 1N 45 W, Albert J. Meek of Wray was a witness.
June 24, 1899 "Mr. and Mrs. Meek came down from Eckley Thursday
to have the children's pictures taken."
June 1899 Wray "Mr. and Mrs. Meek came down from Eckley Thursday
to have the children's pictures taken."
June 1899 Eckley "A. E. Miller, Bert Meek, Charles
and Frank Bogus were out hunting coyotes the first of the week."
July 1899 "Bert Meek has purchased 30 head of stock cattle."
In 1900 Yuma County, Eckley precinct, Joshua born Nov 1872 in
Indiana, married four years to Nora Oct 1873 Iowa.
Lawson Feb 1897, Mae Oct 1898 and Almon March 1900 were born in Colorado.
Minnie and Robert are rooming in Denver in 1900 -
Minnie married but no
spouse, and Robert, 21 is a harness-maker.
April 1900 Wray "J. P. Speirs is agent for the Farmer’s Alliance
Mutuul Insurance Co. of Denver vice N. B. Meek who has moved away."
September 1900 Wray "N. B. Meek formerly of Eckley was iu the eity the first of the week making final proof on land. He is living in Denver at present."
December 1900 Robb items "Will Sisson, Bert Meek and Cal McGinnis are still husking corn. "
Napoleon B. Meek proved up a quarter in section 28, 1N 45W in 1901.
March 1902 
September 1902 Wray "Mr. and Mrs. Meeks. parents of J. A. Meeks,
who visited their son a few days, left Tuesday evening for Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Meeks were formerly residents here."
1903 Wray "Bert Meek had five horses killed by lightning Tuesday."
April 1904 Wray "Gene Fitzgerald who has been spending a year with his sister
Mrs. Meeks, left Wednesday for his home at Falls City, Nebraska."
1905 Wray "Miss Lois Fitzgerald, and Bert Meek, of west of town were
in the town Monday."
February 1, 1907 "Bert Meek will have a public sale at his farm
three miles northeast of Vernon, on Monday, Feb. 11, 1907,
with Joshua Jones as auctioneer. Horses, cow and calf, wagons,
implements, harness, household goods, etc., will be sold on the usual
terms."
September 1902 
In 1910 they're back in Williams County, Ohio,
where J.A. is superintendent at a packing plant, 37.
Nora is 36, Lanson 13, Doris 11, Alvin 10, and Joseph 7, all four born in Colorado.
Napoleon B. Meek 1842-1911 is buried in Hendricks County, Indiana # 12523062.
October 17, 1911 Indianapolis "Napoleon B. Meek, 69, 1716 Brookildo,
chronic intestinal nephritis."
Minnie Meek is a seamstress in 1921 in Janesville, Wisconsin, a seamstress.
Nora died in 1916, buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Msdison, Wisconsin.
She's the daughter of William Fitzgerald and Margaret Carl, # 86643161.
In 1920 Joshua Albert Meek is in Milwaukee, an inspector for International Harvestor, with wife Bessie C. Meek.
LANSON
JOHN
John Joseph Meek, born at Wray September 25, 1902, died in Haiti May 3, 1920, in the Army, of a gunshot wound. He's buried in Forest Hill.
# 86643162.
ALMON
Alvin is a clerk in a dairy laboratory, 20,
and sister Doris a secretary for a telephone company.
21 are in Madison, Wisconsin in 1920.
1924 "Miss Estella Bartholomew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Bartholomew, Van Dcusen street, and Almon Meek, of this city,
will be married on Thursday morning by the Rev. Father Riordan at
St. Jin - church. A wedding dinner will be served at the home of the
bride's parents. After a short wedding trip to Chicago and Milwaukee
they will make their home at 025 Lake."
In 1930 Madison, Almon is 30, married six years to Estella B. , 28, born in Wisconsin.
Almon and Estella are in Madison in 1935 and 940, too.
Almon R. Meek of Madison and Norma J. Braasch of Sheboygan married in Sheboygan Wisconisn september 17, 1949.
Almon March 3, 1900-September 11, 1977.
Almon Rouse Meek is buried in FOrest Hill cmeterey, Madison # 86643157, U.S. Army.
" Almon Meek said that his mother Nora could not
attend her mother's funeral because she was birthing his brother Joe. He
also says he and the rest of his family (J.A. Meek's) moved to Indiana
in 1907 and spent some time with his grandparents there, went briefly to
Ohio and then wound up in Wisconsin where he remained until he retired
to Florida."
DORIS
In 1930 Dane County, Wisconsin, Doris is married to Paul Grove, a real estate broker, with a son James 1. Doris's ister, Margaret E. Meek 18, born in Wisconsin is with them.
Doris Meek Grove, born October 16, 1898, died in Pinellas County, Florida December , 1988.
Joshua Albert Meek, a salesman born November 17, 1872 in Crawfordsville Indiana to Napoleon and Minnie Meek, widowed, died in San Antorniso Texas May 31, 1947, senile.
The informant was V. B. McClung of
160 South St. (the 1931 San Antonio directory has a V.B. McClung at 302 S.
Alamo)
BERT'S BROTHER ROBERT
February 1899 Wray "Counter's lumber yard has a
new sign, the handiwork of the Artist Meek."
March 1899 "R.O. Meek, the sign painter, has departed for Chicago."
Bert's brother Robert O. Meek
1868-1947 is buried in
Dane County, Wisconsin, # 158838323.
NORA'S BROTHER WILLIAM EUGENE
"Services for William Eugene Fitzgerald of Lodi and formerly of Modesto, who died Tuesday in Lodi, were held at 2 o'clock today in the chapel of the Gierhart Wells Funeral Home in Lodi. Entombment followed in the Cherokee Mausoleum there. Fitzgerald operated a motel in Modesto for many years, retiring in 1946. He was a past noble grand of the Odd Fellows Lodge, Wildey Chapter, in Modesto. Survivors are his widow. Clara: a son. Rear Adm. John A. Fitzgerald, USN ret., of Chevy Chase, Md.; three daughters, Mrs. E. J. Mulqueeney of Livermore, Mrs. Eugenia Withers of Stockton, and Mrs. Francis Wilson of Lodi; eight grand children and three great-grandchildren."
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