Atha Richard Meeks, Sr

Athe Meeks, Sr., was born in 1756 at Allens Creek, Hanover County, Virginia. He and his wife, Margaret Virginia Snead, had ten children, 1778-1804, most born in South Carolina. The family moved to Kentucky, then Indiana, where he was killed by Indians in 1811. His wife died at Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1843. Children lived in Indiana, Kentucky, and Utah. His son, Athe Meeks, Jr., was born in Greenville District, South Carolina, in 1793. He and his wife, Anna Vest, had twelve children, born 1815-1841, in Spencer County, Indiana. He died in 1843 in Spencer County. Children lived in Indiana and Utah.

There is a Site indicated by a Historical Marker on Indiana State Highway No. 161, near Richland, Spencer County, on the Ohio River. The Indian, Big Bones, who killed Athe Meeks, Sr., was in a few minutes shot to death himself, by William Meeks, according to a recent newspaper history of the fight. Vengeance soon overtook the Indians, and the leader, Chief Settedown (Set-te-tah), arrested and in a log jail awaiting trial, was shot through a chink hole at night. The Indians then vacated the region.

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Notes for Athe or Atha Meeks:

LDS information: endowed 6/20/1877 in the St. George, Utah LDS temple; baptised into the LDS church on 6/20/1877; reference #258Q-2L.

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Revolutionary War Veteran. He & his family settled near Pigeon Creek & he d 7yrs later "at his doorstep" as the "last white man murdered by Indians in Indiana Territory."