To Bill Kerr and everyone, The following brief excerpt is taken from a manuscript of MEEK family history, which the MEEK family (descendants of James and Mary Henley MEEK) are preparing for publication this year (if I can get the work done and my cousin can get the book designed). We are interested in finding out more about the MEEK relatives mentioned in this paragraph, but have very little information to go on. However, in most details, Effie Meek Maiden is proving accurate. Another cousin and I are checking the facts she has incorporated in the manuscript, and she did a great job of verifying info, though most of the story is old family stories... This is not exactly what you need, but I hope it's a hint... In Middle Tennessee, there is a rock in the Duck River marked "MEEK 1808." One of my cousins has seen the rock, and it is shown on maps of the area. James Meek's sister Mary married Eli Hopkins, and the Hopkins house site is also shown on maps of the area. There are wills and deeds, etc. regarding the Hopkins family. The rock would be near the little community of Chapel Hill, Tennessee, and Henry Horton State Park. My greatgrandfather, James A. MEEK, was born March 21, 1816, so your John P. MEEK would have been a contemporary. Please keep me posted. Anne Meek Norfolk, VA (from Weakley County, TN) BRIEF EXCERPT FROM "HOME IN THE WILDERNESS" by Effie Meek Maiden Covered wagons began to roll in. They came from four counties; Bedford, Marshall, Williamson, and Giles. Soon the open space around the mill was crowded to its limit. There were Alexander, Rufus, John, William, Moses, Samuel, Joseph, Thomas, and James, the son of Adam Meek, all with their numerous families, which represented the best of the tribe, and many more whom they could not be proud to own. All were near or distantly related, their forebears having come from Ireland to North Carolina. So far, in the untamed wilds of this country, they had stuck together. Now the time had come for the scattering of the Meeks to the four winds. James Meek would be the first to go.It was fitting that they gather together for perhaps the last time in one big celebration.