1899 Death Notice of Joseph Anderson Meeks, Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 12/2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1899 Death Notice of Joseph Anderson Meeks, Union Parish Louisiana From the Farmerville "Gazette"; issue of Wednesday, 25 January 1899, page 3, column 1 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Mr. J. A. Meeks, an old citizen of ward two, died last Thursday evening, after a lingering illness. ================================================================================== NOTE: Joseph Anderson Meeks (6 May 1830 – 19 Jan 1899) was the son of Mark Meeks, Sr. (1795 – 1891) and Ann Chambers (1802 – 1857/1858). He married on 24 December 1850 in Union Parish Louisiana to Harriett Ann E. Auld [Hartie, Harty] (24/25 Dec 1835 – 27 Jan 1914), the daughter of Margaret Jane Ward (c1812 – 1880/1893) and Elijah Michael Auld (c1811 – 1877/1880). Joseph Meeks was buried in the Shady Grove Cemetery a few miles southeast of Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana. On 6 May 1862, at the age of thirty-two, Joseph A. Meeks enlisted as a 3rd corporal in Company G, 31st Regiment Louisiana Infantry; many of Harty’s relatives served in the same unit. Meeks stated to his enlistment officer that he was a farm born in Fayette County Alabama. The officer reported that Meeks had black eyes, black hair, a dark complexion, and his height was 5’9¾”. He developed a “pulmonary consumption – an extension abscess in left lung” in August and received a medical discharge in February 1863. After recovering, Meeks enlisted as a private in Company E, 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry. In October 1898, just a few months prior to his death, Joseph applied for and received a pension based upon his Confederate military service. Meeks died just a few weeks after the State of Louisiana officially granted his pension. After his death, Harty received a widow’s pension. ###############################################################################