Meek - James - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

James Meek, the subject of this sketch, was born in the state of Virginia, Sept. 16, 1828, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Chas. H. Bruce, in the city of Crawfordsville, April 6, after a short illness with erysipelas in the left arm, from which he suffered the most excruciating pain, although every available means was resorted to by his family and friends to relieve him. There was but one relief and that was death, which he met with the courage and fortitude of a veteran of the cross.  Mr. Meek was married in Augusta County, Va., on the 16th day of January, 1850, to Margaret Golliday. After a few years they moved to Indiana, where they reared their splendid family and lived most happily together until the death of Mrs. Meek, February 15, 1896. After this he lived companionless, making his home with his daughters, Mrs. Mary Shafer and Mrs. Dora Bruce, both of Crawfordsville. His love for his departed wife never changed, but he gave the fullest evidence continually that he cherished her memory with that fondness which only a devoted husband is capable of. The sincerity of his devotion to her and to his family was proven by his references to the virtues which he saw in them, as well as by his careful and manly deportment that he maintained in all his walks in life. He was industrious, happy and cheerful, making everyone glad that came under the light of his conversation, he being a man of more than common ability. He was a Bible student and loved to meditate its divine teachings and converse upon them. His relatives and friends in his native state will remember with pleasure his last visit paid them not many months ago but yet they will join to mingle their tears with his bereaved family, though many miles intervene.

Beyond the boundary of life’s ocean oft visited by storms, is the light of an eternal home shining through the darkness of time by which he was guided through the craggy channel of death with no fear of evil, and while the infinite hand of God placed heaven’s lamps so near the earth that he beheld its glory, he bade farewell to all below and fell asleep in Jesus, and was laid to rest by his wife and son, George, in Pisgah Cemetery on Monday, April 7, not to be awakened until God, his Savior, shall call. -s