Jacob VAN METER

                   Not listed in Garret Van Meter bible as posted on vanmetre.com/Bible%20Records/garret_van_meter_bible.htm
                  

                   age = 57, Birthplace = Ireland, w/ mother Tabi


Ann, Rebecca and Susan Van Meter lived together - Susan died 1st - Rebecca 2nd and Ann 3rd.

Unmarried, no children. G&BS, p. 62.
                  

                   age 55


Isaac Van Meter came to Kentucky at age 23 and Married Rebecca Cunningham. He had 15 Children , 10 lived to be adults.

Dates of birth, marriage and death, and names of children, as listed in VanMeter Family Bible. Family bible in possession of Betsy Woodford Lankford, Paris, Kentucky.


Native of Hardy County, VA, moved to Clark County, KY as a young man, where he engaged in farming and stock breeding, and was among the first to introduce shorthorn cattle to the State; for many years a deacon in the Presbyterian Church; an old line Whig.  W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky A History of the State, 4th ed., p. 1029 (F. A. Batley and Co., Louisville & Chicago 1887)(reprinted Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC 1979, 1992).

Benjamin F. VanMeter, Genealogies and Biographical Sketches, pp. 64-65 (Louisville, 1901): "Isaac, the father of the writer of this, was the third child and eldest son of Colonel Jacob and his wife, Tabitha, and was born in old Fort Pleasant, Hardy County, in what is now West Virginia, September 24, 1794. He received a good English education from the best teachers that could be obtained in that country at that time, and received a thorough training from his father in the best mode of farming and the care and attention of live stock.

"Even at this early day this valley was producing the finest beef and pork, which supplied the Philadelphia and Baltimore markets. This fertile valley produced enormous crops of corn and wheat, and the very finest of clover and bluegrass pasture, nearly all of which grain and grass was consumed by the best of live stock that could be had at that time, and they were driven to one or the other of these markets and yielded very remunerative profits.

"My father was very early initiated into the Philadelphia and Baltimore markets with fat cattle and hogs of such stock as commanded the top of the market.

"But when about twenty-three years of age he came to Kentucky, married Rebecca, the only daughter of Captain Isaac Cunningham, of Clark County, took up his abode with him on his farm about four miles northwest of Winchester, and in this county he spent the remainder of his life.

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"Isaac Van Meter brought with him to Kentucky about seven thousand dollars' worth of property, consisting chiefly of negro slaves, horse stock, and money. He and Captain Isaac Cunningham were for many years equal partners in their business affairs. They were very successful in business, and accumulated a very large and valuable estate, consisting principally of land and slaves. When they finally dissolved partnership and divided their lands, each owned more than one thousand acres of as valuable lands as were in Clark County. They resided on adjoining farms, with their residences less than one mile apart. Captain Cunningham having only one child (my mother), the grandparents bestowed full as much parental care on the grandchildren as did the father and mother, and it was seldom that all of the children were at one time at either one of the residences."
                  

                   age = 51, Birthplace = Ireland, w/ mother Tabi


Ann, Rebecca and Susan Van Meter lived together - Susan died 1st - Rebecca 2nd and Ann 3rd.

Unmarried, no children. G&BS, p. 62.
                  

                   Dates of birth and death from Isaac VanMeter and Rebecca Cunningham VanMeter family bible.  Cemetery records from Old Fields Church Cemetery, Hardy County, West Virginia (as reported at www.vanmetre.com) indicate birth year was 1803.
                  

                   Dates of birth and death from Isaac VanMeter and Rebecca Cunningham VanMeter family bible.  Cemetery records from Old Fields Church Cemetery, Hardy County, West Virginia (as reported at www.vanmetre.com) indicate birth year was 1802.
                  

                   Section D, lot 84

age 45


Listed with wife and children in 1850 U.S. Census for Fayette County, Kentucky, age 45, occupation farmer, value of property, $50,000

Will Book Y, page 265, Fayette County Clerk's office, dated 24 Jan. 1863, probated 2 March 1863; wife, Elizabeth Ann, sons, Jacob, James, Samuel, William, and David (not of age), daughters, Hannah, and Betty (not of age); reference to land in Coles and Moultrie Counties, Illinois.

See also VanMeter Family Bible for relation to Jacob VanMeter and Tabitha Inskeep; G&BS pp. 138-40. Date of death from tombstone.
                  

                   age = 44


Date of birth from Isaac VanMeter and Rebecca Cunningham VanMeter Family Bible.  Old Fields Church Cemetery Records, Hardy County, West Virgina (as reported at www.vanmetre.com) gives year of birth as 1808, and year of death as 1867 (Garrett, son of Jacob VanMeter and Tabitha Inskeep is the only Garrett VanMeter who is born and dies with anywhere near this lifetime span).  U.S. Census records for 1850 (which lists age as 44) and for 1860 (which lists age as 54) indicate that birth year is 1806.

1850 U.S. Census for Virginia, Hardy County, District 23 (Roll M432_950, p 13:     Garret VanMeter, Jr., age 44 M Farmer value of real property $40,000, born VA; Elizabeth I., age 37 F born VA; Solomon, age 17 M Farmer, born VA; Jacob, age 15 M, born VA; Joseph, age 14 M, born VA; Charles W., age 12 M, born VA; Wm. C., age 10 M, born VA; Isaac N., age 8 M, born VA; Ann R., age 6 F, born VA; Tabitha I, age 3 F, born VA; Garret S., age 1 M, born VA.

1860 U.S. Census for Virginia, Hardy County: Garrett VanMeter, age 54 M Farmer, born VA; Elizabeth, age 46 F, born VA; Solomon, age 27 M, born VA; William. C., age 20 M, born VA; Isaac N., age 18 M, born VA; Ann R., age 16 F, born VA; Tabitha I, age 13 F, born VA; Garrett S., age 11 M, born VA; Abraham, age 9 M, born VA; Sallie, age 7 F, born VA; Mary M, age 2 F, born VA.

Benjamin F. VanMeter, Genealogies and Biographical Sketches, p. 140 (Louisville, 1901):  "Garrett Van Meter, sixth son of Colonel Jacob and his wife Tabitha, was born near old Fort Pleasant, April 20, 1806, and inherited a part of the old Fort Pleasant tract of land handed down to him from his father's estate.  He married Miss Elizabeth Cunningham of Hardy County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and reared a worthy family of nine children [LBV note: Garrett and Elizabeth had twelve children, but apparently only nine lived to be adults].  He died August 10, 1865, having lived to the age of fifty-nine years, and left a widow and nine children to survive him.  he spent his life on a part of the estate where he was born.  he was a quiet, unassuming, honest farmer; for many years a worthy member of the Methodist church, and lived and died a Christian gentleman.  After his death the Virginia homestead was sold, and the widow with most of her family removed to a large and very valuable tract of several thousand acres of land in Piatt County, Illinois, near Mansfield, of which his estate was possessed at the time of his death.  There the widow died in 1892, leaving nine children to survive her.

"The children of Garrett and his wife, Elizabeth, were: Solomon, who married Miss Jemima J. Parsons, of West Virginia; Jacob, who married Miss Anna Harness, of West Virginia; William C., who married Miss Margaret Chambers, of West Virginia; Rebecca, who married Rev. Mr. Crews, a Methodist minister; Isaac Newton; Tabitha; Charles W.; Sallie, who married Mr. Cunningham, of West Virginia; and garrett.  Nearly all of the above-named sons who were old enough for military service at the time of the last war were soldiers in the Southern army; nearly all bear honorable scars received in that unpleasantness, but all yet survive, and are all farmers in West Virginia or in the West."
                  

                   or 7 Dec 1807

age = 42, Birthplace = Ireland, w/ mother Tabitha


Ann, Rebecca and Susan Van Meter lived together - Susan died 1st - Rebecca 2nd and Ann 3rd.

Unmarried, no children. G&BS, p. 62. Date of birth from VanMeter family bible.  Year of death from Old Fields church Cemetery Records, Hardy County, West Virgina (as reported at www.vanmetre.com).