Samuel Meeks Jr.

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Samuel Meeks Jr.

Birth
Wayne County, Kentucky, USA
Death
6 May 1925 (aged 78)
Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Silver Creek, Madison County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Parents: Samuel Meeks and Polly Ann Buttram

Married to Sarah 'Sallie' Elizabeth Harris

Samuel Meeks served in the Confederate Army during the War Between the States.

He enlisted March 13, 1863 at Monticello, Wayne County, KY. He was a member of Company F of 11th Kentucky Cavalry which was under the command of General John Hunt Morgan. Samuel Meeks was a member of Morgan's Raiders. He was captured July 20, 1863 at Cheshire, Ohio and received at Camp Chase, Ohio July 26, 1863 from Cincinnati, Ohio. On August 20, 1863 he was transferred to Camp Douglas, Illinois. He was paroled on March 2, 1865 and brought to the James River in Virginia for exchange March 12, 1865.

In several issues of the Richmond Climax, Richmond Kentucky, there are many references to his attending Confederate reunions and reiterating that he and his company served as the famous 'Morgan's Raiders.'

Parents: Samuel Meeks and Polly Ann Buttram

Married to Sarah 'Sallie' Elizabeth Harris

Samuel Meeks served in the Confederate Army during the War Between the States.

He enlisted March 13, 1863 at Monticello, Wayne County, KY. He was a member of Company F of 11th Kentucky Cavalry which was under the command of General John Hunt Morgan. Samuel Meeks was a member of Morgan's Raiders. He was captured July 20, 1863 at Cheshire, Ohio and received at Camp Chase, Ohio July 26, 1863 from Cincinnati, Ohio. On August 20, 1863 he was transferred to Camp Douglas, Illinois. He was paroled on March 2, 1865 and brought to the James River in Virginia for exchange March 12, 1865.

In several issues of the Richmond Climax, Richmond Kentucky, there are many references to his attending Confederate reunions and reiterating that he and his company served as the famous 'Morgan's Raiders.'

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Meeks
Samuel
Junior
Civil War
1846-1925

Gravesite Details

Small hand painted marker in front of the new military marker was a hand painted stepping stone made in 1982 by Gregg Lewis Kuethe Leeser. Not an original marker.

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