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Usual Clark Meeker 1837 - 1854

Usual Clark Meeker was born on March 2, 1837 in Hamilton County, Ohio United States to Jacob Redding Meeker and Phoebe (Baker) Meeker, and had siblings John Valentine Meeker, Oliver Perry Meeker, Ezra Manning Meeker, and Hannah Jane (Meeker) Dunlap. Usual Meeker died at age 17 years old on July 6, 1854 in Natrona County, WY.
Usual Clark Meeker
March 2, 1837
Hamilton County, Ohio, United States
July 6, 1854
Natrona County, Wyoming, United States
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    Clark Meeker was a member of an 1854 wagon train that left Council Bluffs, Iowa in the spring of 1854 heading for Puget Sound. His mother died of cholera in the far eastern edge of Wyoming. In central Wyoming near Devils Gate Clark drowned in the Sweetwater River. Years later his older brother Ezra looked unsuccessfully for his grave. Meeker Wagon Train Members: Jacob Redding Meeker—age 50 Phoebe Shaw Baker Meeker—age 53 Oliver Meeker—age 26 Amanda Clement Meeker—age 15 Usual Clark Meeker—age 17 Jesse Dunlap—age 30 Hannah Jane Meeker Dunlap—age 20 John A. Packard—age 33 (Bonney, History of Pierce County, page 124) Lulu M. Packard—age 30 (Pioneer Reminiscences, page 114) The following people/families were with the Meeker train when it joined the Vermillion party on May 26th, but we do not know when or where they joined the Meeker train. C.P. Anderson and family—Goodell and Austin simply call them Mr. and Mrs. Anderson. Bancroft in his History of Washington supplies the initials. The Andersons traveled with the Meekers from May 29th until July 1st, when they sprinted ahead. Mr. Hammond—disappeared while searching for missing cattle on June 7th and was never found. It was believed that Indians captured him. Mr. Wright—confusing, as there was a nine-year-old James Wright with the Ebey train. The Meeker train's Mr. Wright seems to have arrived with the Andersons and left when they departed. An unidentified African-American family (Goodell and Austin) whose names we never learn.
  • 03/2
    1837

    Birthday

    March 2, 1837
    Birthdate
    Hamilton County, Ohio United States
    Birthplace
  • 07/6
    1854

    Death

    July 6, 1854
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Natrona County, Wyoming United States
    Death location
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    Usual Clark Meeker lived 56 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 17.
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In 1837, in the year that Usual Clark Meeker was born, on February 25th, in Philadelphia, the Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) - the oldest African-American university in the United States - was founded. It was the first institution for the higher education of black people in the United States. Founded by Quaker Richard Humphreys who gave $10,000 to establish the school, it still exists today - although the location has moved and it has been renamed Cheyney University. Humphreys was concerned about the struggles of free African Americans to make a living.
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In 1840, Usual was merely 3 years old when on February 6th, Māori chiefs and the British parliament signed the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty created a British governor of New Zealand and gave the Maori people the rights of British citizens.
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