When William Riley Meeks was born on 10 August 1863, in Hale, Alabama, United States, his father, Joseph Wiley Thomas Meeks, was 32 and his mother, Matilda J. Logan, was 19. He married Lula Mae Baker on 10 November 1898, in Hale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Beat 2, Scott, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Election Precinct 3 Harrison, Hale, Alabama, United States for about 30 years. He died on 1 June 1946, in Akron, Hale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Rhodes Chapel, Hale, Alabama, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1867: Hale, Alabama, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English (Cambridgeshire): variant of Meek , with post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Mix .
Dutch: patronymic from Meek 3.
History: Thomas Meeks (born c. 1624 in London) emigrated to New Haven, CT, in or before 1643. In 17th-century New Haven this surname was also spelled Meekes, Mix, and Mixx.
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