William Meek and Elizabeth Breckenbridge

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Husband William Meek ^{1 2}

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         Father: Capt. George Meek (      -      ) 3
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Wife Elizabeth Breckenbridge ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1779
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         Father: [Unk] Breckenbridge (      -1779)
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Children

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1 M John B. Meek ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 Jun 1797 - Centre Co, PA 1
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           Died: 28 Nov 1868 - Washington, D. C. 1
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2 M Reuben H. Meek ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Rheuben Meek 4
           Born: 7 Oct 1801 - Ferguson Twp, Centre Co, PA 2
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           Died: 7 Mar 1873 1 2
         Buried:  - Meek Cemetery, Spruce Creek (Centre Co?), PA

         Spouse: Mary Ann Gray (      -1873) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - William Meek

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He died early, leaving five children dependent upon the mother.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Breckenbridge

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"The following incident of Elizabeth Breckenbridge is authentic: In July, 1779, the Breckenbridge family, consisting of father, mother, two sons, John and Thomas, aged eighteen and sixteen years, a daughter of fourteen, another of three and Elizabeth, then an infant, resided in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, three miles southeast of McConnellstown on the road from Huntingdon to Bedford. John and Thomas had left the house when the Indians attacked it, killing the father and the eldest daughter in the spring house. The mother, with her baby and other daughter made her escape. She took the path toward Huntingdon, but lost it and wandered about the entire day and night; coming to a rye field the next morning she wrapped the infant in part of her own clothing, laid it carefully down and went into the grain field to get grains of rye to relieve their hunger. Late in the afternoon she was found on the edge of the rye field with one child, but grief had so unsettled her mind that she could not tell where the baby Elizabeth had been laid. Late the next day she recovered sufficiently to tell where she had put the child, and she was there found apparently uninjured save for bites of fleas. She recovered and afterward became the wife of William Meek." [GPHNP, 278]

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 213.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 278.

3 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 247, 285.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 384.