Descendants of Phoebe Taylor
Generation No. 1
1. PHOEBE1
TAYLOR died Abt. 1850. She married RICHARD MEEK in OH or PA, son of SAMUEL
MEEK. He was born Abt. 1790.
Children of
PHOEBE TAYLOR and RICHARD MEEK are:
i. PHOEBE CATHERINE2
MEEK/MEEKS, b. April 29, 1813, Ohio; d. February 16, 1881, Ontario, Boone
(Storey) IA; m. JESSE ABRAHAM WALKER, February 19, 1835, (Coshocton) OH; b.
March 04, 1803, PA; d. May 20, 1874, Ontario, Story County, Iowa.
More About PHOEBE CATHERINE MEEK/MEEKS:
Burial: Ontario, Story Co., Iowa
Note: See Tombstone records of Story Co., Iowa Page 310A
Notes for JESSE ABRAHAM WALKER:
From Transcript of the Walker Family History written by Nellie Worrell
Hitsman on September 30th, 1933
Jesse Abram Walker was born in Pennsylvania, and his wife, Phoebe
Catherine Meeks, was born in Ohio. They must have been married in Ohio and had
most of their children there, then came to Iowa in an early day. Grandfather
was always poor and lived on a small place not his own. He worked for who ever
needed a hand. He died in July or August 1870 or 1872. Over-heated or a sun
stroke, in the hot weather. Grandmother died 10 or 12 years later, the winter I
was 18. It was her third stroke. Both of them are buried in the Ontario, Iowa,
Cemetery. Grandfather was a deacon in the Ontario Christian Church. Their
children:
Mary Elizabeth Walker married Marmion Vest and had 7 children. Eldoren,
Will, Ollie, Belle, Jennie, Arthur, and Ada.
Asa Walker enlisted in the Civil War and died at Benton Barracks,
Missouri, from the measles. unmarried.
Jane Walker also died single. She had a sweetheart named Wood Baldwin.
Nancy Walker, my mother, married William Worrell. She was born in 1842
and died in California in 1929. Their children were, Nellie, Ed, Laura, Willie,
Libbie, Hattie, Bert, Arthur, and Harry. My brother, Willie, left home many
years ago, when he was 18 or 19. We never heard where he was or what became of
him.
Lavina Walker married Christopher Frank Gibson and had 5 children. Edith
May Palmer, Sarah Frances, Ida, G. Albert, and Jessie. All dead except G.
Albert of near Madrid and May Palmer in Des Moines. (1933).
Henry Walker married Hattie Albright. Lived in Ogden. Henry was shot by
a negro at Frasier, Iowa about 1904. They had 8 children. Mary, Elsie, Delbert
(Bud), Harriett, Mildred, Cassie, John, and Vera. Cassie married John Northway,
an old stage driver. their children, Minnie, Delbert, Asa, and Bertha.
John M. Walker married Lottie Cameron. They had one son, Delbert,
single. Uncle John died the same day as my mother, May 15, 1929. Amanda Ellen
Walker married Charles Webb. She died and left a young baby. He was out West in
Colorado the last I heard. The Baby, died, I think.
The older ones are all dead. There are lots of cousins scattered around
everywhere. My Mother and Uncle John were the last two of this generation. Uncle
John died at 3:00 PM and mother at 9:30 PM, May 15, 1929. John in Wisconsin and
Mother in California. Strange things happen. I always thought a lot of my
parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Aunt Mandy was 15 when I was
9, she used to dress me up and curl my hair on rags. I stayed there quite a
lot. Uncle John was 18 or 19. Uncle Henry older, but unmarried then.
More About JESSE ABRAHAM WALKER:
Burial: Ontario, Story Co., Iowa
Note: See Tombstone records of Story County, Iowa page 310A
Religion: Ontario Iowa Christian Church. Deacon
ii. SAMUEL MEEK, b. Bet. 1813 - 1815;
d. April 20, 1871; m. ELIZABETH BOTTS, October 15, 1835, (Coshocton) OH; b.
1817.
iii. CHARITY MEEK, b. 1816; m. HENDERSON
WINDER, (Coshocton) OH; b. Bet. 1813 - 1814; d. May 27, 1865.
iv. JOHN MEEK, b. February 13, 1819; d.
January 10, 1907; m. SARAH *UNKNOWN.
v. WILLIAM MEEK, b. 1824; m. MARY
*UNKNOWN.
vi. DAVID MEEK, b. May 16, 1827,
(Coshocton) OH; d. 1900, Fallsbury Twp (Licking) OH; m. (1) CATHERINE VARNER,
1850; b. August 30, 1829, Fallsbury, Licking, OH; d. April 07, 1853, Fallsbury
Twp (Licking) OH (Black Run); m. (2) PRISCILLA PHILLIPS, 1862, (Licking) OH; b.
September 1830, (Licking) OH; d. March 1914, Fallsbury Twp (Licking) OH.
vii. MARIAH MEEK, b. October 12, 1827; d.
October 03, 1906; m. (1) *UNKNOWN; m. (2) JOHN J. COOPER, November 11, 1851,
(Greene) IN; b. March 31, 1832; d. February 26, 1912.
viii. RICHARD MEEK, b. November 30, 1832; d.
August 19, 1882; m. (1) ELIZABETH PORTER; b. 1837; d. May 26, 1880, 43y -m 4d;
m. (2) HARRIETT VARNER, Bet. 1850 - 1859; b. January 18, 1833, Fallsbury,
Licking, OH; d. 1875.
More About RICHARD MEEK:
Burial: Fallsburg Cemetery
More About ELIZABETH PORTER:
Burial: Fallsburg Cemetery
ix. ELIZA A. MEEK, b. 1834; d. 1901; m.
RILEY ALEXANDER MANSFIELD, Bet. 1800 - 1899; b. March 10, 1838, (Coshocton) OH.
x. MARY (ALVERIA) MEEK, b. 1836.