Background
Meek, Robert Abner was born on December 7, 1867 in Black Hawk, Mississippi, United States. Son of Robert Drayton and Martha Anne (Johnson) Meek.
Meek, Robert Abner was born on December 7, 1867 in Black Hawk, Mississippi, United States. Son of Robert Drayton and Martha Anne (Johnson) Meek.
Preparatory education, Methodist District High School, Black Hawk, Mississippi. Bachelor of Philosophy Mississippi, 1888. Doctor of Divinity, Emory and Henry College, 1910.
1 son, Robert East. Ordained ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1890. Pastor in Mississippi at Carrollton, 1891-1892, Vaiden, 1893, Coldwater, 1894, Clarksdale, 1896, Tupelo, 1897-1898, Starkville, 1899-1901, West Point, 1902-1903, Greenville, 1904-1905. Presiding elder Greenville District, 1906-1909.
Editor New Orleans Christian Advocate, 1910-1919.
Presiding elder Sardis District, 1919-1922. Editor The Southern Methodist, 1921-1930, retired 1930.
Member General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church South., 1910, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30. Member Delta Kappa Epsilon. Mason, Knights of Pythias, Woodman of World.
Married Cornelia Chew Crippen, December 7, 1893.