Arvilla Delight Smith

Held hostage with her daughter Josephine after husband Nathan Meeker was killed in a Colorado…

Nathan Cook Meeker

Social reformer sent to Colorado by Horace Greeley was the victim of an Indian uprising. He was…

Josephine Meeker

Daughter of Nathan Meeker who wrote and lectured about her experiences in the Meeker massacre.…

Ralph Lovejoy Meeker

Journalist for the New York Herald who exposed corruption in the Ulysses Grant…

Schija Ringel

Settled in Berlin in the early 1880s

Moses Ringel

Patriarch of our Ringel branch. He fathered eight children with Rose Lea Reichmann in the…