Abram S. Meek *
Abram S. Meek, son of Rev. George W. and Mary F. Meek, was born in Wabash county, Indiana, February 5, 1855. The same year his parents left their timbered home in Indiana and in two covered wagons, one drawn by horses, the other by a yoke of oxen, came to the new country that they had heard so much about and located in Harrison county, Missouri. Here, in the old Fairview church, the son received his common school education and grew to manhood. On Sept. 5, 1875, he was married to Miss Arminda Sigler, daughter of the late J. K. and Catharine Sigler, of Adams township. In 1886 he moved in a covered wagon to Northwestern Kansas, Decatur county, where he lived until the first opening for settlement of the Oklahoma country. Every year during their stay in Decatur county, Kansas, their crops were an entire failure on account of dry weather and hot winds, so he and some of his neighbors abandoned their homes and made for the new Oklahoma country. He was in the first great settlers’ race and located in Kingfisher county, where he lived until a few years ago, when he gave up farming and moved to the city of Enid, where he died March 15, 1909, aged 54 years, one month and ten days. He filled honorable places both in church and State. For a number of years he was one of the county judges of his county. It can readily be seen that he spent the greater portion of his life in helping to improve a new country, which means toil and hardship.
He was an aggressive christian, a good singer and a very faithful worker in both Sunday school and church. His christian integrity was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him.
He died in peace and the burial was an old Union Chapel in Kingfisher county, the cemetery having been established by himself and neighbors. Rev. Dr. Arnote preached the funeral discourse from the text: “He was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost.”
P.F.M.
Bethany Republican-Clipper (Bethany, Missouri), Thu, 8 Apr 1909, Page 8