Notes for Robert E Lee Meeks

Notes for Robert E Lee Meeks Our Merged Meeks Families

Notes for Robert E Lee Meeks

Robert e. Lee Meeks, the twelth child of Thomas Meeks, was born on 24October 1867. Lee Meek s owned and operated a General Store at ClearSprings for a number of years. The business wa s named "R. E. L. Meeks& Co., Dealers in General Merchandise and Country Produce (Meeks1900) . Newberry (1964) provides the following description of the R. E.L. Meeks store:

"There were barrels and boxes filled with staple groceries and icedfish, and shelves loaded w ith dry goods of every variety. There werearticles of furniture and hardware. Coal-oil lamp s and lanterns werearrayed on tops of counters or swung on nails on the rafters. Therewere m edicines of physicians and filled by drug-store pharmacists.There was much crockery and man y cooking utensils. There wereoveralls and work pants for men, and blouses and skirts for la dies. Agreat coffee grinder hung on one of the walls. I saw both cradles andcoffins. In on e large side-room were innumerable sacks of feed, alarge supply of farm implements and a grea t amount of harness. Anothersideroom was used for storage."

Lee Meeks also owned and ran a cotton gin, and in his early yearstaught at the "little schoo l at Clear Springs" (Newberry 1964). LeeMeeks as appointed Postmaster of the Clear Springs P ost Office on 15October 1907 and served until 15 August 1911 when the mail was movedto the Ok olona Post Office (National Archives and Record Service1973).

On 24 October 1889, Lee Meeks married Lenora Alice Pullen (b. 29December 1871, d. 26 Octobe r 1914). They had six children. After herdeath, Lee then on 15 November 1916 married Marth a Key (b. 24September 1885, d. 18 February 1955). Lee and Martha had no childrenof their own . Lee Meeks died on 18 May 1942.