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Note for: Lemuel Wegnor Johnson, 25 Nov 1826 - 2 Apr 1909
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Burial: Place: Franklin Cemetery, Franklin Twp, Polk, Iowa
Individual Note: CENSUS: 1850 Wilshire Twp., Van Wert, Ohio, p.175.
BIRTH:DEATH: State of Iowa, Certificate of Death #77 5671. Bondurant, Polk, Iowa, Lemuel Wegnor Johnson, born 25 Nov 1826. 82 yr, 4 m, 11 d, married, born, Ohio, father, Joseph Johnson, born Virginia, mother, Rebecca Johnson, born, Ohio, died 2 Apr 1909, bureid 7 Apr 1909 at Franklin Cemetery.
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Note for: Elias Johnson, 1831 -
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Individual Note: CENSUS: 1870 Franklin Twp., Polk, Iowa, p.323.
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Note for: William Meek, 2 Apr 1784 - 9 Aug 1863
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Burial: Place: Bonaparte Cemetery, Van Buren County, Iowa
Individual Note: TAXATION: Wayne County Tax List of 1826. William Meek in Plain Twp., Wayne County, 2- 14s/sw 20, 70 acres, s/se20 145 acres, 673 value; n 1/2 15 80 acres.
CENSUS: 1830 White Pigeon Twp.,St. Joseph, Michigan. 1850 Farmington, Van Buren, Iowa, p.301a.
BIRTH-DEATH: Van Buren County Cemetery Records, Bonaparte Cemetery. From Van Buren County, Iowa Gen Web page lookups.
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Note for: Johnson Meek, 3 Mar 1805 - 8 Jan 1893
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Burial: Place: Meek/Oakland Cemetery, Des Moines Twp., Lee, Iowa
Individual Note: CENSUS: 1840 Lee County, Iowa census, p.369. 1850 Lee County, Iowa, p.463, living with them is Thomas and Xantippe Smith. 1860 Des Moines Twp., Lee, Iowa, p.524. 1870 Des Moines, Lee, Iowa, p.46. 1880 Des Moines, Lee, Iowa, p.235A.
OBITUARY: Van Buren County, Iowa Obituraries abstracted by Rich Lowe, at
. Johnson Meek, who died at Vincennes, on Monday, the third white settler in Des Moines township. Johnson Meek who died at his home in this place Monday, was the third oldest white settler in Des Moines township, he having crossed the Mississippi river in November, 1836 and settled on the land which now constitues his homestead. . . . he owned one of the largest and most fertile farms in the Des Moines river bottoms. Mr Meek was a native of Brooke county, West Virginia, having been born there March 3, 1805, and was the eldest of a family of eight children. He was married April 15, 1829, to Miss Mary Kean, who came with him to Iowa and died in Des Moines township, April 7, 1844 leaving two children. Mr. Meek was the second time married, January 24, 1850, in Des Moines township, to Mrs., Priscilla McBride, whose parents Samuel and Jane Hern, were the first white settlers in the township. She together with six children, survives him. . . .
BIOGRAPHY: Lee County, Iowa USGen Web page at Meek, Johnson, farmer, Sec 19; P.O. Hinsdale, owns 600 acres, was born in West Virginia in 1805; his parents removed to Wayne County in 1811, and to St. Joseph County, Mich., in 1829. He married Mary A. Kean, a native of Pennsylvania. Came to Lee County, in 1836; has been on his present farm for forty-three years. Mrs. Meek died in 1844; he again married in 1850, Priscilla McBride, a native of Ohio; Mr. Meek had eight children by his first marriage, two now living; Araminta, now Mrs. M. Teel, resides in California; Xantippe, now Mrs. T. A. Smith; has had six children by his second marriage, four still living; Jane A., now Mrs. Joseph S. Rain; Otto B.., Blache and R.B.
Portrait & Biographical Album of Lee County, Iowa, 1887, p. 172, FHL #977.799 D3p. Johnson Meek. This gentleman was the third settler in what is now Des Moines Township, and the oldest one now living. He crossed the Mississippi in the month of November, 1836, and settled upon a tract of land which constitues his present homestead. . . . he is now the proud possessor of 616 acres, embracing a body of the best land in the Hawkeye State, all lying along the Des Moines River, and most of it in the first bottoms. . . .Mr. Meek is a native of West Virginia, born in Brooke County, near the Ohio River, March 3, 1805. His father, William Meek, was a native of Pennsylvania, removing from there to West Virginia with his parents when a child of two years old, and there remained until he had attained to years of manhood. He then went back to his native county, and was there married to Misss Elizabeth Johnson. Her parents were of English and German descent . . . Johnson Meek was the eldest of a family of five sons and three daughters. His parents were of Irish descent, and of their family, three sons and all the daughters are still living. The two who are deceased lived to an advanced age. Johnson Meek was reared partly in his native county and partly in Ohio. He was married, April 15, 1829, to Miss Mary Kean, who was born in Pennsylvania in August, 1814, and was of Scotch and German parentage. She became the wife of our subject at the age of fifteen years, removed with him to Iowa, and there departed this life in Des Moines Township, April 7, 1844. She had become the mother of two children, who still survive her: Zantippe became the wife of Thomas A. Smith, who died in 1884, she is now a resident of Eureka, Ark.; Arminta is the widow of Marvin Teel; she lives in San Lorenzo, Cal., and is the mother of three children. Mr. Meek was the second time married, Jan 24, 1850, in Des Moines Township, to Mrs. Priscilla E. (Hearn) McBride, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Ewing) Hearn. Her parents were reared and married in Montgomery County, Ohio. They came to Iowa in 1833, locating in Lee County, and were the first white settlers in Des Moines Township. The family then consisted of five children, of whom Mr. M. was the eldest but one. She was born in Washington Twp., Montgomery County, Ohio, Oct 3, 1819. . . . The father departed this life in 1872, at the ripe old age of eighty years; the mother in 1845, at the age of sixty three. Mrs. Meek remained with her parents until her marriage to Robert L. McBride. They were married in Missouri, and lived there most of the time afterward until her husband's death. Of her union with Mr. Meek she became the mother of six children, two of whom are deceased: Jane A. became the wife of Joseph Rayn, and they reside on a part of the old homestead; Otto B. married miss Martha Sullivan, and they live in Adair County, Mo.; Blanche resides at home, as also does R.B. Mary L., deceased, was the wife of Richard Brinkerhoff, and left one child, which is still living; Earnest is also deceased. . . .