William Meeks1866–
- Name
- William Meeks
- Given names
- William
- Surname
- Meeks
 Birth | June 1866 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 7 months)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 7 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 2 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 11 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Minnie J Carlile — View this family estimated 1897 (Age 30 years) |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Minerva Elizabeth Meeks 1897 (Age 30 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 31 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Irma B Meeks estimated 1900 (Age 33 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | William A Meeks estimated 1902 (Age 35 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | Clara F Meeks 1905 (Age 38 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Clyde William “Curly” Ridge 1914 (Age 47 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 49 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 50 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 51 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 63 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 75 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 83 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Death of a grandson | Clyde William “Curly” Ridge 1953 (Age 86 years) |
| Death of a wife | Minnie J Carlile 1957 (Age 90 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Irma B Meeks 1959 (Age 92 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Minerva Elizabeth Meeks 1965 (Age 98 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Clara F Meeks 1970 (Age 103 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 79 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | unknown |
| Family with Minnie J Carlile |
| himself |
William Meeks Birth: June 1866 — Texas, United States Death: |
| wife |
Minnie J Carlile Birth: 1876 — Missouri, United States Death: 1957 |
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Marriage: estimated 1897 — |
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1 year daughter |
Minerva Elizabeth Meeks Birth: 1897 30 21 — Missouri, United States Death: 1965 |
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4 years daughter |
Irma B Meeks Birth: estimated 1900 33 24 — Missouri, United States Death: 1959 |
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3 years son |
William A Meeks Birth: estimated 1902 35 26 — Missouri, United States Death: |
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4 years daughter |
Clara F Meeks Birth: 1905 38 29 — Missouri, United States Death: 1970 |
| George Washington Shemwell + Minnie J Carlile |
| wife’s husband |
George Washington Shemwell Birth: September 17, 1874 49 36 — Kentucky, United States Death: January 28, 1942 — Metropolis, Massac, Illinois, United States |
| wife |
Minnie J Carlile Birth: 1876 — Missouri, United States Death: 1957 |
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Marriage: April 18, 1910 — New Madrid, Missouri, United States |
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17 months step-son |
Howard Riley Shemwell Birth: September 30, 1911 37 35 — New Madrid, Missouri, United States Death: May 8, 1950 — Metropolis, Massac, Illinois, United States |