"United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", Franklin Township, Union, Arkansas FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKV3-6FT2 : 16 October 2019), John Meek, 1860.
Owner of 16 slaves, ranging in ages from 55 down to 0.
*Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 17 January 2020), memorial page for Dr John Alexander Meek, Sr (16 Apr 1791–9 Jan 1863), Find A Grave Memorial no. 102244935, ; Maintained by Roanna Dolan Griffin (contributor 47928961) Non-Cemetery Burial, who reports a He died in his sleep while visiting his son and because of the snow and impassable roads it is believed he was buried on the property where he passed..
"United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XKN5-J49 : 4 December 2014), John A. Meek, Captain, Company G, 19th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (Dockery's), Confederate; citing NARA microfilm publication M376 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 16; FHL microfilm 821,826.
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I have great reservations that this John A. Meek served in the Company G 19th Inf. He's just too old for the rigors of battle or even battlefield surgery. I think its a younger John A.