Meek, Samuel Mills, 1835-1901

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Meek, Samuel Mills, 1835-1901

Samuel Mills Meek was a Confederate militia officer and prominent lawyer who worked in northeastern Mississippi.

Born on November 11, 1835 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Meek was an Assistant Principal for the Collegiate High School in Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi in 1853. By the 1860s, he was a prominent lawyer, but during the Civil War, on November 1, 1861 he enlisted as a First Lieutenant in the First Mississippi Infantry. He later served as a Captain in the Thirty-Fifth Mississippi and was a veteran of the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. In 1863, he resigned his commision and became a District Attorney. On August 18, 1864, he organized Company D of the 1st Infantry Regiment, Mississippi Militia (Reserves) in Lowndes County. After the war, Meek continued to work as a lawyer in the county.

Meek was married to Mary Louisa (Cannon) Meek. The pair had ten children, including four daughters and two sons who lived to adulthood. Samuel Mills Meek died on December 21, 1901 in Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi. He was buried in the Friendship Cemetery in Columbus.

(FindaGrave; Southern Standard, September 10, 1853; The Commercial Bayou, July 1, 1902; James S. Hamm and Samuel M Meek to Governor John J. Pettus, September 1, 1863, Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi, mdah_757-945-07-16; Howell, Jr., Military History of Mississippi, 7; Lt. Col. S. M. Meek to Col. Thos B. Lenoir, December 5, 1864, Civil War & Recosntruction Governors of Mississippi, mdah_767-953-08-037)

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Telegram from Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Meek to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; December 28, 1864

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Meek at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, asking for authority to call out Collin C. Hornsby's and Cornelius Hardy's Mississippi militia companies from Lowndes County, Mississippi.

Telegram from Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Meek to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; December 3, 1864

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Meek at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, asking if the companies of William S. Patton's militia regiment from Lowndes County, Mississippi, and Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, are to report to Brandon, Mississippi.

Telegram from Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Meek to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; January 3, 1865

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Meek at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, informing him that Confederate Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's pontoon train was captured near Russellville, Alabama.

Letter from James S. Hamm and Samuel M. Meek to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; September 1, 1863

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James S. Hamm and Samuel M. Meek at Louisville, Mississippi. concerning the case against Daniel Emmons for selling liquor without a license.

Letter from Samuel M. Meek to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; 1861

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Samuel M. Meek to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the efforts to reelect Pettus to a second term as Governor.

Letter from Samuel T. Harrison to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; May 19, 1864

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Samuel T. Harrison at Starkville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that James D. Manning be pardoned and allowed to go back to his regiment. The letter is endorsed by Judge James T. Hamm and District Attorney Samuel M. Meek.

Clark Series 767: Box 953, Folder 08

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Meek of the First Regiment Mississippi State Troops at Columbus, Mississippi, to Colonel Thomas B. Lenoir at Macon, Mississippi, asking which set of conflicting orders he should obey.

Letter from Samuel M. Meek to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; August 11, 1865

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Samuel M. Meek at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking to be reappointed to the district attorney's position he held previously.

Letter from L. F. Bradshaw to Kinloch Falconer; October 20, 1876

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Stone Collection. Letter from L. F. Bradshaw to Kinloch Falconer, reporting resignation of J. G. McBee as registrar in Clay County, Mississippi, and recommending G. L. Johnson as replacement.