When Damie Meeks was born on 9 August 1909, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Henderson "Hence" Meeks, was 27 and her mother, Thursie Jane Hamby, was 19. She lived in Grundy, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 20 September 1985, at the age of 76.
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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