From: Wilbert Jurgens
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:16:06 -0600
Subject: GOLDRUSH MOST WANTED - MEEKER
Searching for information on gg uncle Reuben MEEKER listed in 1850 Pleasant Hill
District of El Dorado Co. near Hangtown now Placerville, Ca. at age 18 (B.ca
1832, Ohio). It is possible he moved West with the Nathan WIIXOM family as they
traveled from Nauvoo, Ill. to Utah. Reuben's brother Melvin, my gg Grandfather
is listed in the 1850 census for Utah Territory. He is then listed on the 1860
census of Tuolumne Co. Twp.#3 Jamestown, P.O. age 32. He returned to Bremer
County, Iowa by 1870. What happened to Reuben? Did he move to Tuolumne the
reason his brother Melvin is listed on the census there? Did he die in the gold
fields? Where buried? Any information appreciated. Thank you.
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