Florence Celia Baker
6.6.1881 - 2.9.1964
Spouse: Asa Gordon Benjamin Meech Jr.
1880 - 1939/40
Parents: John Leonard Baker and Emily Annis Lawrence
Children:
Alice Morna (Easterly) 1903-1990,
Asa Gordon John Meech 1904-1983,
Arthur Leslie Meech 1906-1969,
Virginia Mae (Hershberger ) 1908-1999,
Lawrence E. Meech 1911-1946,
Elda Irene (Capra) 1913-2003,
Edithe Ann Meech 1917-1920,
Emily Jane (Stanton) 1921-1995,
Orpha Jeanne (Park) 1923-2011
Reverand Asa Meech
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His successor was Reverend Asa Meech, who was installed October 28th, 1812. He enjoyed the favor of the people for a while, but his earnest religious spirit was not able to look with complacence upon the loose and immoral practices of many of the people, and as a consequence he fell into disfavor with the party who were absorbed in sensual and vicious amusements.
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Also, c. 1815, the Reverend Asa Meech (Meech Lake) settled just north of Wrightville. The Moore family operated a sawmill in Hull in the 1820's. The Moore
family (some of whom pioneered at Rapides des Joachims in the 1840's) were related to the Meech family. Two Moore brothers married daughters of Richard Prentice, UEL. This was the first marriage performed in Nepean Township.
From "Up the Gatineau", published 1981, Marion Meech writes:
"It is an established fact that Asa was located on lot 21 in the 10th range of the
Township of Hull in 1821, and that he lived there until his death in 1849 in the home
that he built, and that is still there. The Public Archives provides information
about the development of the Chelsea area, in petitions for land grants, and in reports
of the government land agent, Philemon Wright. From these old papers one's imagination
readily creates a picture of scattered homes, growing families, varied labours, and
slowly increasing crops and livestock. In November, 1823, Philemon Wright submitted
to the governor of the Province a report on the progress, in the preceding two years,
of seventeen settler families. Of Asa Meech he says: 48 years, married, 4 children,
lot 21, 10th Range, one house, no barns, 24 acres cleared, 6 under cultivations, 15 horn
cattle, 15 swine, no labouring men, $50 expenses on the land. Four years later,
April 7, 1827, another report by Philemon Wright covers the progress of 53 families.
By this time, Asa Meech had lot 22 also, with 12 acres cleared, a barn had been erected,
a bee-hive established, and $150 expended on the land. Wright speaks of him as a good
industrious farmer with a large family, who wants a charter for a full lot."
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OLD CHELSEA
The oldest pioneer markers in the Lower Gatineau are found beyond the iron gates of the Protestant graveyard, across the street from l' Agaric Restaurant and behind the old Dunn Hotel (1901) at 253 Old Chelsea Road.
Buried here are such leading pioneers as Massachusetts native Thomas Wright and Asa Meech, a preacher, teacher and doctor for whom Meech Lake in nearby Gatineau Park is named.
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Joseph Hetherington married Charlotte Clements, and their first child Joseph was born about 1821. In all they had six sons and one daughter. As the family grew up, evidently the older sons struck out on their own. Joseph, the oldest son, married Lucy Benedict, granddaughter of Samuel Benedict who had come up from New York State in 1801 and taken up 600 acres of land on the Mountain Road. They were living at the northwest end of Meech Lake in 1851, as recorded in the census. The next son John also looked north, for he married Harriet, the daughter of the Reverend Asa Meech, whom lived at the East End of Meech Lake. John probably had a farm on Harrington Lake, and living members of the Hetherington family recall being taken to see the site, on the clearing at the south end of the lake, near the Prime Minister's house. The surveyor Driscoll in 1850 recorded the name Harrington Lake, repeating the error in the 1827 land grant. This could easily result from the local pronunciation of the name - Herndon. However, John did not stay at the lake, and in 1890 was living in Salem, Oregon. The next son Isaac Farmed in Eardley, while his brother Wesley moved to the northwest par of Hull Township. It was the youngest son, Alvy, who stayed at home and inherited the family farm when his father died in 1873.
Glasiers and Meeches
Stephen Glasier was the son of Benjamin Glasier (b. 1802; d. 12th March 1862) and Ann Worden (b. 1800; d. 5th September 1845). He was probably born in New Brunswick, Canada on 24th September 1842. He married Cynthia L. Meach (or Meech) about 1860. Cynthia was the daughter of Rev. Asa Meech and his third wife, Margaret Docksteader.
Cynthia's father, Asa Meech, fathered 21 children. His second wife and several of her children were drowned in a flood in a creek that feeds into Meech Lake.
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This is the house in California where Florence and Asa Meech lived in pre-1923.
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This is an enlargement of the previous photo.
Shown, left to right are: Lawrence, Virginia, Art, baby Elda, Alice and Gordon.
Alice Morna Meech
July 17, 1903 - July 24, 1990
Spouse: Glen W Easterly
Marriage: June 3, 1922
Parents: Florence Baker and Asa Meech
When Alice Morna Meech was born on 17 July 1903, in Carleton, Ontario, Canada, her father, Asa Gordon Benjamin Meech, was 26 and her mother, Florence Lacinda Baker, was 22. She married Glen W Easterly on 3 June 1922, in Canadian, Oklahoma, United States. She lived in Hammond, North Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Enid Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States for about 20 years. She died on 24 July 1990, in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Enid Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States.
Asa John Gordon Meech
October 17, 1904 - December 4, 1983
Spouse: Clara H Crites
Marriage: June 29, 1926
Parents: Florence Baker and Asa Meech
When Asa John Gordon Meech was born on 17 October 1904, in Carleton, Ontario, Canada, his father, Asa Gordon Benjamin Meech, was 27 and his mother, Florence Lacinda Baker, was 23. He married Clara H Crites on 29 June 1926, in Garfield, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Hammond, North Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Enid Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. He died on 4 December 1983, in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Enid Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States.
Arthur Leslie Meech
December 23, 1906 - August 8, 1969
Spouse: Virginia A Rust
Marriage: January 26, 1929
Parents: Florence Baker and Asa Meech
When Arthur Leslie Meech was born on 23 December 1906, in Van Buren, Michigan, United States, his father, Asa Gordon Benjamin Meech, was 29 and his mother, Florence Lacinda Baker, was 25. He married Virginia A Rust on 26 January 1929, in Alfalfa, Oklahoma, United States. He lived in United States in 1949 and Enid Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. He died on 8 August 1969, in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Enid Cemetery, Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States.
Elda Irene Meech
11.23.1913 - 2003
Spouse: Carl Cocensa Capra
May 1903 - 5.31.1973
Marriage: 1.3.1930
Parents: Florence Baker and Asa Meech
Children: Donald Capra, Robert Capra, Phillip Capra, Paul Capra
Florence and daughter Elda, in Enid OK, in the 1950s.
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Orpha Jeanne Meech
February 3, 1923 - September 17, 2011
Spouse: William
Parents: Florence Baker and Asa Meech
Children: Constance E.
JEANNE MEECH PARK
Jeanne Meech Park, age 88, died at a skilled nursing facility near her home in San Diego, California on Saturday, September 17, 2011. Her body finally failed after contending with dementia. A private service was held as per her wishes. ... She was predeceased by her daughter, Constance E.
Jeanne was the youngest of nine children born to Florence Baker Meech and Asa Gordon Meech on February 3, 1923. Her parents had emigrated to the United States from Ontario, Canada and lived in several U.S. states before she was born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma. She was five when she entered the first grade in 1928. Soon the Great Depression began; times were tough for everyone. They grew a garden and her brother had a rabbitry which helped through the hard times. Even so, Jeanne was accepted for free tap-dance lessons. Her mother often said, "She'd rather dance than eat." On some of those empty summer afternoons, she would put on some music and teach her sister and pals how to ballroom dance. She also loved to sing and studied voice when young. She sang solos and in choirs and ensembles. Later it was said that "she could create something out of nothing." Jeanne passed on her musical talent to her two daughters, born in the 1940s, when their father served in the U.S. Navy. Jeanne worked for a dress company in Enid, Oklahoma before World War II and after, where she learned to design children's dresses. Her two daughters benefited from her craft, always admiringly dressed.
Later they moved to California where Jeanne remarried and later discovered her Muse for writing; she became a published poet and writer. She sold prose to magazines and has won many prizes and national poetry awards. She has been published in sixty some poetry anthologies, including many State Poetry anthologies. She has had her own poetry books published, "Turning Home" and the latest, "Beat Of A New Drum." She served as past president of the San Diego branch of California Chaparral Poets and The National League of American PenWomen. She was still active in later years, attending her writer's groups, etc., even after treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1992 with chemotherapy and radiation, which put the cancer into remission until twelve years later when it returned in 2004. Jeanne was a wonderful, loving person who thoroughly enjoyed life.
Published by San Diego Union-Tribune on Oct. 2, 2011.