John Meek - husband of Elizabeth Boyd

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2018.5.11

Description

John Meek [1792c-1878] - husband of Elizabeth Boyd. John was a veteran of the War of 1812. He served as a Private in Capt. Saml. Coulston's [or Colson's] Company, Pennsylvania Militia. Pension nos. SO 17,807 and SC 7,091, bounty land warrant file nos. 49,006 (80 acres, Act of 1850) and 17,522 (80 acres, Act of 1855). Original, professional photograph from Rogers Brothers, Photographers, Waynesburg, Pa.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Meek, John [1792c-1878]

Collection

Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter Collection

Made/Created

Studio

Rogers Studio

Date made

circa 1865 - circa 1875

Place

Location

Pennsylvania / Greene County / Waynesburg

Lexicon

Search Terms

Meek family, Veterans--War of 1812

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

CARP-AN006-0001

Web Links and URLs

War of 1812 Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files - Fold3

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Meek Series - Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter Collection

Notes/Remarks

The Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter Collection was in large part passed from Capt. John Scott [1815-1894] and his wife, Charlotte (Mason) Scott [1817-1901], to their daughter Elizabeth Jane (Scott) Carpenter [1849-1931] and her husband, Asa Sellers Carpenter [1853-1926], to their son John Leslie Carpenter and his wife, Velma (Meek) Carpenter, to their son Sellers Burdette Carpenter and his wife, Bettie (Blake) Carpenter, whose heirs shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2013.

Notes

Source Citation: John Meek - husband of Elizabeth Boyd, item no. CARP-AN006-0001, Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter Collection, shared by Heirs of Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).