Six photographs of the graves of the Rev. Jotham Meeker and his wife, Eleanor D. Meeker. The graves are in the Ottawa Indian Burial Grounds near Ottawa, Kansas. The Rev. J. Meeker was a printer and missionary who established the Ottawa Baptist Mission in 1836/37. He is reputed to have printed the first book in Kansas, a textbook for Indians.
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Kansas Historical Society
Gravestones of Rev. Jotham Meeker and Eleanor Meeker - Photo #8 is of the Meeker grave in the Ottawa Indian Cemetery.