Serena A (Shanks) Meeker (1860 - 1897)

Ancestors

Wife of Hiram Newell Meeker — married 1873 in Sharp County, Arkansas

Died 1 Jul 1897 at age 36 in Sharp, Arkansas, United States

Biography

Serena was born in 1860. She is the daughter of Joel Shanks and Sarah Wilks.^[1]

She married Hiram Meeker.^[2]

She died in 1897. She is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Sidney, Arkansas.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCX-Y9B : 28 May 2021), Sarena Shanks in entry for J R Shanks, 1870. Piney Fork, Sharp, Ark.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNW5-CLY : 13 January 2022), Rena A. Meeker in household of Hiram Meeker, Piney Fork Township, Sharp, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6946965/serena-ann-meeker: accessed 03 October 2022), memorial page for Serena Ann Shanks Meeker (23 Dec 1860–1 Jul 1897), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6946965, citing Mount Carmel Cemetery, Sidney, Sharp County, Arkansas, USA; Maintained by Robin Farley Dixson Coon (contributor 46558224) .