Isaac Cunningham VAN METER
Section D, Lot 74 age 30 Lived with maternal grandmother: Sarah (nee Harness) Cunningham Isaac C. Van Meter Represented Fayette Co. in the Ky. Legislature and was and elder in the first Presbyterian Church of Lexington. Dates of birth and death from VanMeter Family Bible and tombstone. Names of children from Benjamin F. VanMeter, Genealogies and Biographical Sketches, p. 81. Second child of Isaac VanMeter and Rebecca Cunningham, lived from a child with his maternal grandfather; in 1842, married Frances H. Hull (born in Franklin County, VA, daughter of Col. Henry Hull and Hannah Harness, her parents died in Virginia and she came to Kentucky in 1833); in 1843, moved to Fayette County and purchased land in the Sandersville precinct, where he has since remained; on farm of 800 acres, 5½ miles from Lexington, near the Versailles Pike, breeds short horn cattle and trotting horses, and of the latter, especially Hambletonians; a practical, business-like stock-raiser; member, Presbyterian church; nine children, daughter, Sarah, married to John W. Steenbergen, lives in West Virginia, son, Charles is a farmer in Clark County, KY, two other sons, W. Scott and Ben W. are farming in Bates County, MO, other children still live at home: Edwin, J. Brown, Lewis M., Jesse, and Fannie M. Robert Peter, History of Fayette County, p. 866 (O. H. Baskin Co., Chicago 1882).
Section D, lot 74 age 28 Place and year of birth from Robert Peter, History of Fayette County, p. 866 (O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago 1882)(biographic sketch of Isaac C. VanMeter). Date of death from Louis Marshall VanMeter family bible.
Section D, lot 74 age 7 KY Death Record: VanMeter, Chas. L., age 68, place of death, Fayette, date of death, 01-21-1913, vol. 003, certif. no. 01028, year 1913
age 5 Names of husband and children from G&BS, p. 81. Date of death from G&BS.
Section D, lot 74 age 3 Names of wife and children from Rambling Renicks, p. 1223 (Omaha, NE 1998) by Mary J. Justin; see also B. F. VanMeter, G&BS, p. ______.
Section D, lot 74 age 1
Section D, lot 74
Died in infancy. G&BS, p. 81
Will Book 13, page 169, Fayette County Clerk's office, dated 30 Dec. 1921, probated 20 Feb. 1923: sister, Mrs. F. M. B. Savage, brother, Jesse VanMeter.
Section D, lot 74
1930 U. S. Census for Fayette County, Kentucky includes daughter, Mary Moore Savage McQueen, and grandchildren, Elmer, age 7, Clarence, age 4, and Mary E., age 1. Funeral notice, Lexington Leader, p. 17, Friday, December 29, 1933:widow of Alfred Savage, services Saturday, December 30, 1933 at 2:00 p.m. at Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church. No mention of any issue. KY Death Certificate, vol. 58, certif. 28540.
He married Frances ÒFannieÓ H. Hull 1842 . Frances ÒFannieÓ H. Hull was born at Franklin co, Va, Usa 1 Dec 1821 daughter of Henry Hull and Hannah Harness .
They were the parents of 10
children:
Charles Letcher Van Meter
born 20 Aug 1844.
Sarah ÒSallieÓ C. Van Meter
born Abt 1845.
Edwin H. Van Meter
born 23 Jul 1847.
William Scott Van Meter
born 2 May 1849.
John Brown Van Meter
born 22 Feb 1850.
Benjamin Wallace Van Meter
born 1852.
Ann Rebecca Van Meter
born 7 Feb 1858.
Louis Marshall Van Meter
born 29 Jan 1860.
Jessie Van Meter
born 28 Dec 1862.
Frances ÒFannieÓ M. Van Meter
born Mar 1864.
Isaac Cunningham Van Meter died 14 Apr 1898 at Fayette co, Ky, Usa .
Frances ÒFannieÓ H. Hull died 8 May 1903 at Fayette co, Ky, Usa .