409 S. Stafford in the 1870s; Jesse Meeks
June, 1872 – Reverend Jesse M. Meek and Anna Meek (and Catherine Cook, Anna’s mother) buy the land from the Murphys for $625.
From a 1990s history of Zion Baptist Church: Jesse M. Meek, 1888-1895. Reverend Jesse M. Meek was called to serve Zion on May 21, 1888, and started his pastorate in June, 1888. He served an unbroken term of seven years until December, 1895.
He was said to be very efficient, and was greatly loved by the young, being especially qualified to understand and sympathize with them and obtain their confidence. During his pastorate his spiritual and intellectual scholarly attainments were so far reaching the Wilberforce University recognized him as a great man and conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
In 1894, the Ladies Sewing Circle was organized and Mrs. Anna S. Meek served as the first president.
Dr. Jesse M. Meek passed away on Monday, January 13, 1896 at Yellow Springs, Ohio. He was around 63 years old; quite a popular minister of Zion, having served in the communities of Chillicothe, Ripley, Springfield and Zanesville, Ohio.
His funeral was held at Zion Baptist Church. So great was the crowd that several hundred people had to wait outside, since the Church was already filled to overflowing with near 500 mourners. Due to the many, many people present for the funeral, it was said that the west side of the building began to sag and a crack was found in the west wall. After further investigation the building was condemned.
Jesse Meek timeline:
1833/1834, born in VA
1838/1839, moved to Cincinnati, private school
1860 Census:
Occupation: Shoemaker
Jesse M. Meek, 27, M, Mulatto – Birthplace: VA – Living in Clinton County in Wilmington, Ohio
Spouse: Ann E. Meek, 23, F, Mulatto, Child: Alfred Meek, 4, M
1862:
Occupation: Teacher
J.M. Meek, of Zanesville, on Dec. 25th gave address “Practical Education” at the Ohio Colored Teachers Association meeting, Cincinnati (in Jan 31, 1863 Christian Recorder)
(Meek also gave another address: Sin of Insubordination, at the same meeting and reported on the Zanesville schools.)
1863:
Occupation: Teacher
J.M. Meek gave address in December; “Practical Education” at the Ohio Colored Teachers Association meeting, Columbus (in Jan 1864 Christian Recorder).
1866:
November 3rd – “Mr. Meeks, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Xenia…”. Christian Recorder
1870 Census:
Occupation: Minister
Jesse M. Meek, 36, M, Black – Birthplace: VA – Living in Pickaway County in Circleville, Ohio
Spouse: Eliza Meek, 31 (34?), F, Black, Keeping House – Child: Clanco(?) Meek, 2, F, Black, At Home – Catherine Cook, 70, F, Black, At Home
1870:
Signer of petition for voting rights enforcement (one of 140 men) in Circleville, OH, pastored Second Baptist Church in Circleville.
1871:
J.M. Meek was secretary at Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Anti-Slavery Baptist Association meeting in September in Springfield, OH.
1872:
June: Purchased lots 128/129 of 409 S. Stafford Street, Yellow Springs, OH. Catherine Cook purchased lots 126/127 (only lot 127 had taxable value). Sold by David Murphy (originally Ireland)
1873:
Cook lot 127 value held over
Improvement to lot 129 by Meek
1874:
Cook lot 127 value held over
Improvement to lot 129 by Meek
1877:
Pastored Second Baptist Church in Springfield, OH. Two church sources say one year (1877) while another source (History of Clark County/Springfield) says “about two years” with unspecified dates.
1878:
October: Sold lots 126, 127, 128 & 129 to Esper Peterson (originally Denmark).
1880 Census:
Occupation: Minister
J. M. Meek, 47, M, Mulatto – Birthplace: VA – Living in Brown County in Ripley, Ohio
Spouse: A. E. Meek, 43, F, Mulatto, Child: Clarence Meek, 12, M
1888-1895:
Pastor of Zion Baptist Church, Xenia, OH.
1890:
Wilberforce trustees conveyed D.D. to Rev. J.M. Meek of Ohio – In July 3, 1890 Christian Recorder.
1891:
June. Elder Meeks assisted Rev. Balay in the sixth annual services of the Third Baptist Church, Xenia, OH. Christian Recorder.
1891:
October. In Xenia, OH, at party for B.F. Lee, Wilberforce. Christian Recorder.
October, 1878 – The Meeks sell the land to Esper and Ella Peterson for $600.
VSS Poster #2 – Did we find the N170 with a homemade machine?
Well, this is Nick’s Do-It-Yourself baby, mostly. It sure looks like we found a larger N170 response to faces (3 subjects, no stats) than to houses, cars or animals (a living/nonliving distinction was the task). We wanted to do an inversion study with the faces to see if the enhanced N170 would be abolished but the equipment broke.
Note though that the equipment found other signatures, such as a pronounced and normal-looking auditory Mismatch Negativity (MMN) – again, only 2 subjects and no stats.
This is promising stuff on the waaaay cheap – we saw a Grass 79D amplifier on Ebay once for $99!
VSS Poster #1 – Processing of Eye Position in Faces
I’m pretty excited about this work.
To summarize, we give people a face to look at for either 400 ms or 2 seconds. Then after a brief delay they get a manipulated probe face for only 120 ms. They have to say whether the face is same or different from the initial face. Manipulations to the probe face are to the eye region on one side. We presume then that the changed eye (eye alone moved horizontally or vertically, or eye and eyebrow moved horizontally or vertically) is falling into the opposite brain hemisphere for initial processing.
The participants are given no explicit instructions about what to pay attention to, etc.
We know that the change is registered, because there is a delay in saying “same” to same identity faces after the manipulation compared to when the second probe face is not manipulated.
But the key thing is that in the 400 ms initial face condition, when you don’t have a lot of time to scan the image and “memorize” it, the disruption is right hemispheric and especially seen after eye and eyebrow movements. When you have more time to study the initial face (2 sec) then we think you are committing some of the small metric distances to memory quite well, and that is why the “local” changes to the eye alone are noticed more in the left hemisphere, which is known to process “parts” more effectively. This all fits with the neuroimaging literature over the past 10 years
