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Note for: Mary Ann Allen, 10 Apr 1819 - 3 Oct 1845
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Burial: Place: Bonaparte Cemetery, Van Buren County, Iowa
Individual Note: DEATH: Van Buren County Cemetery Records: Bonaparte Cemetery - Mary Ann, consort of Robert Meek (daughter of James and Sarah Allen) died 3 Oct 1845, age 26 yr. 5m, 23 d. From Van Buren County Gen Web lookup.
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Note for: Nancy Flint, 24 May 1815 - 1 Jun 1853
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Burial: Place: Bonaparte Cemetery,Bonaparte,Van Buren,Iowa
Individual Note: DEATH: Van Buren County Cemetery Records: Bonaparte Cemetery - Nancy, consort of Robert Meek (daughter of R and Alinda Flint) died 1 Jun 1853 age 38 yrs. 8 days. From Van Buren County Gen Web lookup.
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Note for: Sarah Stone, 14 May 1823 - 24 Aug 1846
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Burial: Place: Bonaparte Cemetery,Bonaparte,Van Buren,Iowa
Individual Note: BIRTH-DEATH: Van Buren County, Iowa D.A.R. Grave Records 1936 - transcribed by Fran Hunt- on line at http://www.rootsweb.com/~iavanbur/ - Wife of Wm. Jr. & Dau of S. & S. Stone, ided 24 Aug 1846.
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Note for: Fidelia Stone, 19 Dec 1834 - 30 Aug 1891
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Burial: Date: 30 Aug 1891
Place: San Lorenzo Cemetery, Alameda County, California
Individual Note: CENSUS: 1850 Harrisburg Twp., Van Buren, Iowa, p. 294.
BIRTH-DEATH: San Lorenzo Cemetery, Alameda County, California, 1853-1983, FHL #979.465/S3 v3s, sec. I, #533. Meek, Fidela (Mrs.) born Michigan, res. San Lorenzo, Califo, age 56 yrs., 8 mo., female married. Interred 1891 Aug 30, block 35, grave 2, lot 129.
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Note for: Cynthia Ann Ingels, 28 Jun 1827 - 31 Jul 1906
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Burial: Place: Bonaparte Cemetery, Van Buren County, Iowa
Individual Note: Van Buren County Cemetery Records: Bonaparte Cemetery - Cynthia, wife of Isaiah Meek, mother of C.M. From Van Buren County Gen Web lookup.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: 1878 History of Van Buren County, Iowa. Meek, Isaiah, of the firm Meek Bros., proprietors of the Bonaparte Grist, Saw and Woolen Mills, Bonaparte; born Jan 33, 1821, in Warren County, Ohio; parents moved to St. Joseph County, Michigan in 1829; to Bonaparte in the spring of 1837, his father, William Meek, in company with Dr. R.N. Cresap, laid out the town of Bonaparte the same year; in 1844, William Meek & Sons built the grist-mills, and in 1853 the wollen-mills; the latter burned in 1863; were rebuilt by Meek Brothers the same year. Mr. Meek married Cynthia A. Ingels in December of 1844, she was born in 1827 in Ohio; have six children - Nancy A., Phoebe L., Hugh H., Mary E., Byron and Kirk. Mr. Meek owns, individually, 540 acres of land, valued at $25 per acre, and about 2,000 acres in company with his brother Robert, and 500 acres with Robert and Joseph. The Meek Brothers are among the leading business firms of Van Buren County; are now building a fine new grist-mill, to contain six runs of stone, at a cost of $15,000. Democrat.
OBITUARY: Van Buren County, Iowa Obituraries abstracted by Rich Lowe, URL: http://iagenweb.org/boards/vanburen/obituaries/index.cgi. Cynthia Ann Ingels was born near Galliopolis, Ohio, June 28, 1827, and died July 31, 1906 at 2:20 a.m., aged seventy-nine years, one month and three days. At two years of age she with her parents came to Columbus, Indiana, and there resided until she was fifteen years old. On with the westward tide in 1842 they came to Iowa settling on the Des Moines river two miles above Bentonsport at a place called Columbus, now non-existing. At seventeen years of age she was married to Mr. Isaiah Meek of Bonaparte, Iowa, where she has lived sixty two years. To them were born three sons and three daughters, viz., Hugh, Kirk, Byron and Mrs. T. W. Boyer of Bonaparte, and Mrs. John S. Moore and Mrs. W. B. Daniel of Keokuk, all of whom are living. Mr. Isaiah Meek preceded hs wife in death fourteen years ago last April. . . .