Cousins

The Fusons and the Meekers. I'm not sure where Mil is looking, but it's certainly somewhere else.

Attention!

That title really is Ruthe's caption for this picture of John and Ben Meeker. What good posture we have ...

Lounging at Lake City

Ben, Ruthe and Mil Meeker

Above Wolf Creek Pass

Meeker siblings enjoying the view

Playing around with the camera

Ruthe and Mary liked to take funny pictures of each other. This is Ruthe posing in Anadarko.

The Meekers and the Carters, 1941

Kansas connections

Mary Teschner, Josie Cooper, Will Cooper and Adolph Teschner.

John Meeker and Ree Carter, 1941

John Meeker drinking from the hydrant

John Meeker always struck me as a very serious fellow. He toured the country giving lectures about the importance of teetotaling. He briefly went to an Ivy League school for seminary before heading to transferring to a California seminary. He was a Presbyterian minister, particularly interested in missionary work throughout the west. He camped in a suit.

But this picture is a bit goofy ...

Taken probably around 1910

Fording the river

Ben and Ruthe in the river on the 1936 vacation to Colorado.

Ben and Ruthe, 1918

Ben and Ruthe Meeker, American Fork, Utah. 1918.

Ben on horseback

Ben Meeker riding on horseback during the 1936 family vacation to Uncle Dwight's cabin in South Fork.

Meeker children, 1917

Ben, Mil and Mary Meeker (plus cat and baby doll) in 1917 (?). The picture is taken in American Fork, Utah.

Mil, Ruthe, and Ben, 1941

Meeker siblings Mil, Ruthe and Ben loiter about the backyard while Georgia and John work in the garden. The picture is taken in Del Norte, Colorado.

Ruth as a toddler

My grandmother, Ruth Meeker, was born in 1918. This picture dates from sometime late in 1919 or early 1920.