Ann (Anntoinette)

b:  1877 & was the daughter of Orelia Michaud & Samuel Horrocks
d: 13 May 1902 - St. Louis, Mo.- An obituary in the St. Louis Globe Democrat gives Ann's age as 25 & lists her death as an accident.  However my aunt Lilian Ziock Palmer told me that Ann committed suicide by pouring gasoline all over herself & setting herself on fire (see article below). Ann is buried in St. Mathews Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.

m:  1)Ann married Albert J. Webers  28 June 1894 (Lic.57009 - Vol.47, Pg.419)  Albert was under 21 years of age so his mother, Mrs. Minnie Weber, had to give consent for the marriage. They had one son, Alexander Webers born 1895. Albert divorced Ann in April, 1897 (I have a certified document attesting to this - 6437-A - available upon request) According to what I was told by a relative Alex grew up & had a turkey farm somewhere out of state (I think maybe Montana.) He came to visit my parents once when they lived on Exeter Ave., Shrewsbury (St. Louis). This would have been between 1945 to 1954.)

2) Ann's second husband was George Casper Meek.  They had three children:  George Oliver, born in 1898 & died Feb. 1984, Walter L. & Stanley R. 

In the 1900 census for St. Louis Annie & George Meek & 3 children, Alexander (Weber), George & Walter, are living next door to Samuel Horrocks & Orelia.  The children's ages are 5, 2, & 1 respectively.      In the 1910 census Alex is living with his grandparents Samuel & Orelia.

Obituary - St. Louis Globe Democrat - Thursday Morning - May 15, 1902, pg. 16, Col. 1:
Annie Meek, 25, 4716 Minnesota - accident.

George C. Meek of House Springs, St. Louis County, died 3 June 1945. Death Cert: born ca. 1875 St. Louis - occupation: bricklayer - parents: Andrew Meek born in Czechoslovakia & Mary Kalsik born Czechoslovakia - wife: Frances Meek, Rt. 1 House Springs, Mo.(Jefferson Co.Mo.) - buried: St. Peter & Paul Cemetery, St. Louis

Walter Meek b: 3 Apr. 1899 & died 10 June 1958 in St. Louis.  Death Certificate says he was a retired letter carrier & a WWII Vet (maybe this should be WWI as it seems he would have been too old to serve in WWII?)

I (Esther M. Ziock Carroll) was acquainted with my cousin Marylin Meek Guenther when I was growing up.  She lived in Grover, St. Louis Co., Mo.  She later remarried to a Mr. Connely & last I heard from her she was living in St. James, Mo. (I think).   I went to high school with her son Dwight Guenther.  He served in the Viet Nam war.  The last I heard he was a Deputy Sheriff somewhere in Iowa.

One time my parents & I were over at Marylin's house in Grover to see the new horse they had gotten.  They let me ride it bareback with just a halter to guide him with.  I rode the horse across the yard to the edge of the road & turned around to come back.  The horse then bolted & ran back to where everyone was standing & watching.  When he got almost there he made an abrupt stop & in so doing sent me flying through the air!  Marylin's husband was able to catch me in his arms before I hit the ground. I don't think I was even a teenager yet when this happened - can't remember for sure anymore.

I also worked at the Community Press newspaper at the same time that Marylin & her husband had a delivery route for the paper & would see her occasionally when she came into the office.   This was around 1967.  Later they had a dairy route.

I also went to school with another cousin, Cherlyn Meek (at one time she worked as an airline stewardess).  If I remember right her father was George Meek who owned the Tri-County Motorcycle sales.  I never met him but spoke to him on the phone once.

Terry Meek says that the Meeks had a farm somewhere in the vicinity of House Springs.  Thanks to Terry Meek of Texas for some of the information on George Meek.