Joseph Meek: Robin's Roots Test

Abt 1827 - 1863 (36 years)

TNG Descendant Charts

Please note that you don't have to depend on these descriptions; you can quickly try out each of the chart types.

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a marvelous graphical format and show a fair amount of data for each person, but they generate so much whitespace that they tend to be wider than the screen (or a printed page) They tend to be hard to read and almost impossible to print if you generate more than three or four generations of data.
"Compact" charts have similar graphical layout, and are easier to read and print, but don't display any data other than each person's name.
Note that if you want to print a "Compact" chart with more than three or four generations of data, you should probably specify "Landscape" orientation when you print.
The "PDF chart" is kind of a cross between the standard and compact formats, generated as a PDF. On most computers, any web page can be printed as a PDF, but this PDF format handles page breaks for specific paper sizes, wheras PDF printouts of web pages just run the text through the page breaks

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll whell or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts follow a standard outline-style format that provides more (i.e. denser) data than the graphical charts do.
"Text+" charts are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They can display much more data in less space than graphical charts or the "Text" chart. (That's good news and bad news). In particular, they requires much less horizontal scrolling, and can accommodate large charts in one printed page width (albeit sometimes with legal-sized paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
However,
- The process of printing a Text+ chart can be a bit daunting, and
- When you are looking at just a few generations, and when enough data is visible on the screen, the graphical charts tend to be easier to read.
"Register" charts are detailed descriptive reports. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they aren't really 'charts' in the normal sense, and don't give this kind of overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Count" charts don't list descendants at all; they just show how many descendants a person has, broken out by generation.

Less detail

Generation: 1

Joseph Meek was born about 1827; died in 1863.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1850, Abingdon, Knox County, Illinois, USA
Residence: 1860, Ion, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, USA

Notes:

This record may conflate two men named Joseph Meek from Fulton and/or Knox County, Illinois. I can find no birth or death records, nor a FindAGrave page, for Joseph Meek. Given that I am really only interested in Joseph Meek's wife Louisa Latimer's subsequent marriage to Larkin Bacon, I would not really care about the lack of documentation about the death of her first husband, and just assume that he had died or been presumed dead. But I recorded additional information about Joseph Meek and another wife (Minerva Ogden) before realizing that two men named Joseph Meek might be involved, so I'm reporting the information as if it applies (as ity might) to one man.

Notably, there appears to be formal documentation only one of the three weddings at hand. That is, Joseph Meek and Louisa Latimer were clearly legally married in 1849 (even though the reasonably-authoritative Ancestry.com sources for Illinois marriage do not include actual marriage certificates). But although marriages of Joseph Meek and Minerva Ogden and of Louisa Latimer and Larkin Bacon clearly existed in practice, those marriages might not have been formally certified. In other words

If the Joseph Meek who married Louisa Latimer in 1849 and the Joseph Meek who married Minerva Ogden in 1857 were different men, there is no cause to question the legality of any of the marriages.

But if they were the same man and Joseph and Louisa were not divorced before 1757, then Joseph Meek's marriage to Minerva would appear to be bigamous.

(Note that, because Minerva's husband died in 1863, Louisa Latimer's 1864 marriage to Larkin Bacon would have been legal even if she and Minerva had married the same Joseph Meek.)

Joseph married Nancy 'Louisa' Latimer on 13 Nov 1849. Nancy was born on 15 Aug 1831; died in 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Eugene Latimer Meek was born on 3 Jul 1853; died on 10 May 1930.

Joseph married Minerva Jane Ogden on 26 Feb 1857. Minerva was born on 26 Aug 1840; died on 6 Mar 1911. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Generation: 2

2. Eugene Latimer Meek (1.Joseph¹) was born on 3 Jul 1853; died on 10 May 1930.