When Hymrick Charles Meeks Sr was born on 8 February 1822, in Emanuel, Georgia, United States, his father, Charles C. Meeks, was 24 and his mother, Lydia Riner, was 19. He married Martha Davis on 9 November 1843, in Coffee, Bacon, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and District 1170, Coffee, Georgia, United States in 1880. He died on 6 February 1894, in Coffee, Georgia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Meeks Cemetery, Nicholls, Coffee, Georgia, United States.
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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