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Quellen-Verweis NI02104 :

Personen : Pfeiffer Floyd
Social Security Number: 343-32-4371
Issued: Illinois
Last Residence: Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02105 :

Personen : Comerford Merritt Matthew
Social Security Number: 338-14-2811
Issued: Illinois (Before 1951)
Residence: Pana, Christian County, Illinois
Birth: December 10, 1914
Died: April 1978 (The correct date is Mar. 4, 1978).
Obituary - March 4, 1978, Unknown newspaper in Christian County, Illinois:
Title: Merritt M. Comerford, 63, Fatally Stricken Saturday.
Merritt M. Comerford, 63, of 103 South Walnut Street, Pana, was dead on arrival at 6:30 a.m., Saturday, Mar. 4, 1978, Pana Community Hospital. He had been under the care of a physician for a heart condition.
Mr. Comerford was born in Pana, Dec. 10, 1914, a son of the late Phillip and Rose Eck Comerford. He was married to Dorothy Hanson, Oct. 6, 1941, in Bowing Green, Mo. She survives.
Mr. Comerford was a retired farmer, veteran of World War II and was a member of the Christian County Farm Bureau.
Besides his wife he leaves 2 daughters, Mrs. William (Nancy) Drury of Sullivan and Mrs. Kevin (Debbie) Rentfro of Mode; a son, Merritt E. Comerford of Taylorville; a brother, Virgil, of Pana; 2 sisters, Mrs. Odessa Pfeiffer of Shelbyville and Mrs. Opal Eilers of Tiskilwa; and 3 grandchildren. Two brothers and 2 sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at __:30 p.m., Tuesday, Mar. 7, in the McCracken Funeral Home with Rev. Ralph Donaldson of Rosamond Community Presbyterian Church officiating.
Burial will be in Rosemond Grove Cemetery, Rosamond.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 6:00 to 8:00 tonight, Monday.

Quellen-Verweis NI02106 :

Personen : Comerford Stella Opal
Occupation: Owed and operated a beauty shop for 25 years.

Quellen-Verweis NI02107 :

Personen : Eiler Homer Leroy
Occupation: Truck driver.

Quellen-Verweis NI02108 :

Personen : Pieper Mary C.
Mary C. Pieper died about 14 days after the birth of her son Paul Eugene Eck.
Cause of death: Kidney failure.

Quellen-Verweis NI02109 :

Personen : Beyers Sarah "Sadie" Victoria
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois.
Obituary - 1972, Pana News, Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois.
Title: Mrs. Sadie Eck Dies; Rites Are Here Saturday.
Mrs. Sarah Victoria "Sadie" Eck, 89, formerly of 206 Vine Street, Pana died at 7:30 a.m., today, Thursday, Nov. 9, in the Pana Nursing Home where she had been a patient since November of 1970.
She was born in Christian County on Aug. 26, 1883, her parents being the late Frank Beyers and Minna Gudehus Beyers. She was twice married, first to Frank Lehn, who died in 1931. Later she married to John Eck, who died in 1953.
Surviving are 2 sons, Harold Lehn and Paul Lehn, both of Pana; step-children, Cletus Eck of Pana, Mrs. Loretta Diss of Tower Hill and Mrs. Mildred Swim of Decatur; two brothers, Raymond Beyers of Decatur and Lawrence Beyers of Pana.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, with Father Bernard H. La Bonte officiating.
Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Pana. Friends may call at the D. J. Kennedy & Sons Memorial Home after 3:00 p.m., Friday. The rosary will be that evening at 6:30.

Quellen-Verweis NI02110 :

Personen : Eck Cletus John
Social Security Number: 336-32-5953
Issued: Illinois
Last Residence: Pana, Christian County, Illinois.
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois.
Obituary - November 07, 1988, Unknown Newspaper:
Title: Cletus Eck - Pana
Cletus J. Eck, 72, of Pana died at 11:45 a.m. Monday, Nov. 7, 1988, in his home.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Pana. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Kennedy and Sons Funeral Home, Pana, with a 7:30 p.m. rosary. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Pana Township.
Mr. Eck was born in Oconee, son of John and Mary Eck.
He married Catherine Werner in 1945. She died in 1970. He married Rose L. Zahradka Shallenbarger in 1976.
Surviving are his wife; son Jim of Oconee; daughters, Mrs. Wayne (Joann) Miller of Pana; and Mrs. Larry (Norma) Swanson of Washington; stepson, Richard Shallenbarger of Woodstock; stepdaughters, Mrs. Bill (Doris) Boin of Belvidere; and Mrs. Edward (Betty) Carroll of Woodstock; sisters, Loreita Diss of Tower Hill; and Mildred Swim of Decatur; stepbrothers, Harold and Paul Lehn, both of Pana; 23 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren.
Two brothers preceded him in death.
Obituary - November 08, 1988, Unknown Newspaper:
Title: Eck
Cletus J. Eck, 72, of Pana died at 11:45 a.m. Monday, Nov. 7, 1988, in his home.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Pana. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Kennedy and Sons Funeral Home, Pana, with a 7:30 p.m. rosary. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Pana Township.
Mr. Eck was born in Oconce, son of John and Mary Eck. He was a retired farmer and was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and Farm Bureau. He married Catherine Werner in 1945. She died in 1970. He married Rose L. Zahradka Shallenbarger in 1976.
Surviving are his wife; son Jim of Oconee; daughters, Mrs. Wayne (Joann) Miller of Pana; and Mrs. Larry (Norma) Swanson of Washington; stepson, Richard Shallenbarger of Woodstock; stepdaughters, Mrs. Bill (Doris) Boin of Belvidere; and Mrs. Edward (Betty) Carroll of Woodstock; sisters, Loreita Diss of Tower Hill; and Mildred Swim of Decatur; stepbrothers, Harold and Paul Lehn, both of Pana; 23 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren.
Two brothers preceded him in death.

Quellen-Verweis NI02111 :

Personen : Eck Loretta Margaret
In 2008, Loretta Margaret Eck is living in Tower Hill, Shelby County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02112 :

Personen : Eck Vincent Paul
US World War II Enlistment Record:
Name: Vincent Eck
Height: 68 inches
Weight: 171 pounds
Enlistment date: March 24, 1941
Term of Enlistment: Three years
Education: Grammer school
Civil Occupation: Automobile Serviceman
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
During WWII, on or about 1942, Vincent Paul Eck was in the Coast Artillery stationed in San Francisco, California.
According to his wife, Vincent Paul Eck smoked about two packs of cigarettes a day. On the day of his death he had gone into St. Louis to deliver some sheep, and later returned to the family farm where he died in the barn. The cause of death was heart failure.
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02113 :

Personen : Alde Ruth
Ruth Alde never married again after the death of her husband Vincent Paul Eck. She worked 39 years for a light and gas service company named, Central Illinois Public Service Company, in Christian County, Illinois.
As of 2006, Ruth (Alde) Eck is living in Pana, Christian County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02114 :

Personen : Eck Mildred Agnes
Social Security Number: 326-36-4012
Issued: Illinois
Last Residence: Pana, Christian County, Illinois.
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02115 :

Personen : Swim Danford "Danny" Leland
Social Security Number: 343-03-7263
Issued: Illinois
Last Residence: Decatur, Macon County, Illinois.
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02116 :

Personen : Eck Paul Eugene
Social Security Number: 355-22-5743
Issued: Illinois
Last Residence: (Not specified)
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02117 :

Personen : Cutler Mary "Ealla" Eva
Social Security Number: 324-56-7444
Issued: Illinois
Last Benefit: Pana, Christian County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02118 :

Personen : Eck Grace Elizabeth
Social Security Number: 334-16-4342
Issued Under: Grace Holthaus
Issued: Illinois (Before 1951)
Residence: Florissant, Saint Louis, Missouri
Born: January 6, 1917
Died: December 1985

Quellen-Verweis NI02121 :

Personen : Eck John "Johnny" Cassias
Social Security Number: 321-24-7523
Issued: Illinois
Last Residence: Tower Hill, Shelby County, Illinois
Burial: Sacred Heart Cemetery, Oconee, Shelby County, Illinois.
The below obituary was published on March 7, 1984, (Newspaper Unknown):
Title: John C. Eck, 59. Tower Hill, Died Sunday in Taylorville.
John C. Eck, 59, of RR2, Tower Hill, died at 5:02 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26, 1984 in St. Vincent Memoral Hopital, Taylorville.
Mr. Eck was born May 19, 1924 in Oconee, a son of Martin L. and Mary Eva Cutler Eck. He married Jean Stilabower on Aug. 19, 1972. He was a retired chief engineer for Illinois Roses Limited, Pana; US Army veteran and member of Immaculate Conception Church, Shelbyville, and Knights of Columbus and Travelers Protective Association, both of Pana.
Surviving are his wife; sons, Terry of Pana and Joe of Palm Beach, Fla.; daughter Mrs. Barbara Oreskovitch of Oconee; stepdaughters, Sheldia Nussbaum of Cheyenne, Wyo., Christine Clagg of Shelbyville and Amy Newtson of Springfield; sisters, Grace Holthaus of Florissant, Mo., Pauline Bond of Springfield and Mary Lambert of Princeton, Ky.; three grandchildren; nine stepgrandchildren and one great-stepgrandchild; and an aunt, Nora Cutler, of Pontiac.
One sister preceded him in death.
The family will receive friends at McCracken Funeral Home from 5:00-*:00 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28. The Rev. Fr. B. H. LaBonte will have the rosary at 7:00 p.m.
A memorial Mass will be held at a later date.

Quellen-Verweis NI02126 :

Personen : Eck Marie
No children.

Quellen-Verweis NI02127 :

Personen : Eck Louis
Lois had three sons and three daughters, one of them was deceased as of 1997.

Quellen-Verweis NI02128 :

Personen : Eck Victor
Worked as a missionary.

Quellen-Verweis NI02129 :

Personen : Eck Josephine
Josephine was a Nun.

Quellen-Verweis NI02130 :

Personen : Eck Jeauue
Jeauue has two sons and one daughter.

Quellen-Verweis NI02131 :

Personen : Hanson Dorothy Mae
As of 2006, Dorothy (Hanson) Comerford is living in Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02132 :

Personen : Comerford Nancy
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Quellen-Verweis NI02135 :

Personen : Zahradka Rosie "Rose" Louise
Social Security Number: 360-24-9234
Issued: Illinois
Last Residence: Pana, Christian County, Illinois
Obituary - June 18, 1919 - May 24, 2006, Pana Township, Christain County, Illinois:
Rose L. Eck, 86, of Pana died Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 4:37 a.m. in Pana Community Hospital.
She was born June 18, 1919 in Pana, IL, the daughter of Louis & Victoria Duez Zahradka. Rose lived in Pana her entire life and was a member of Pana Christian Church. She was a homemaker and enjoyed playing bingo and working word puzzles.
Rose married Emerson Shallenbarger on September 25, 1937. He preceded her in death on March 9, 1965. She later married Cletus Eck on April 24, 1976. He preceded her in death in November 7, 1988.
Rose is survived by her children: Doris Boin & husband Bill, Belvidere, IL; Betty Carroll & husband Edward, Woodstock, IL; Richard Shallenbarger & wife Shirley, Woodstock, IL; step children: Joann Miller & husband Wayne, Pana, IL; Norma Swanson & husband Larry, Washington, IL; Jim Eck, Pana, IL; several grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great grandchildren; sisters: Victoria Fringer & husband Edwin, Woodstock, IL; Vivian Thomas & husband Joe, Moweaqua, IL; Norma McDaniel & husband Doug, Fairborn, OH.
Besides her husbands, she was preceded in death by her son, Virgil Shallenbarger; 2 grandsons: David Shallenbarger & Tim Shallenbarger; and by 3 brothers.
Published: May 25, 2006 - Shelbyville Daily Union, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois.
Rose L. Eck - Pana (St. Christion County, Illinois)
Rose L. Eck, 86, of Pana died Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 4:37 a.m. in Pana Community Hospital.
She was born June 18, 1919 in Pana, IL, daughter of Louis & Victoria Duez Zahradka. Rose lived in Pana her entire life and was a member of Pana Christian Church. She was a homemaker and enjoyed playing bingo and working word puzzles. She married Emerson Shallenbarger on September 25, 1937. He died March 9, 1965. She later married Cletus Eck on April 24, 1976. He died November 7, 1988.
She is survived by children: Doris Boin & husband Bill, Belvidere, IL, Betty Carroll & husband Edward, Woodstock, IL, Richard Shallenbarger & wife Shirley, Woodstock, IL; step-children: Joann Miller & husband Wayne, Pana, IL, Norma Swanson & husband Larry, Washington, IL, Jim Eck, Pana, IL; several grandchildren and great grandchildren; sisters Victoria Fringer & husband Edwin, Woodstock, IL, Vivian Thomas & husband Joe, Moweaqua, IL, Norma McDaniel & husband Doug, Fairborn, OH.
She was preceded in death by: son, Virgil Shallenbarger; 2 grandsons: David Shallenbarger & Tim Shallenbarger; 3 brothers.
Memorials: Pana Christian Church, 1005 E. Sixth St. Pana, IL 62557
Visitation will be held Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at McCracken-Dean Funeral Home, Pana.
Funeral Services wil be held Saturday, May 27, 2006 in Pana Christian Church at 10:00 a.m. with Pastor Bill Rosnett officiating. Burial will be in Linwood Cemetery, Pana.

Quellen-Verweis NI02136 :

Personen : Eck Joann Marie
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Quellen-Verweis NI02137 :

Personen : Eck James "Jim" Michael
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Quellen-Verweis NI02138 :

Personen : Eck Norma Jean
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Quellen-Verweis NI02140 :

Personen : Diss Mary "Christine" Catherine
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Quellen-Verweis NI02141 :

Personen : Diss Carolyn Jean
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Quellen-Verweis NI02142 :

Personen : Diss John Michael
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Quellen-Verweis NI02144 :

Personen : Eck Danny Paul
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Quellen-Verweis NI02146 :

Personen : Holthaus Patrica Ann
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Quellen-Verweis NI02147 :

Personen : Holthaus Robert Arthur
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Quellen-Verweis NI02148 :

Personen : Holthaus John Paul
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Quellen-Verweis NI02149 :

Personen : Holthaus Michael Edward
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Quellen-Verweis NI02150 :

Personen : Holthaus Thomas Gerard
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Quellen-Verweis NI02152 :

Personen : Woods Bill
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Quellen-Verweis NI02155 :

Personen : Lambert James (Jr.)
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Quellen-Verweis NI02156 :

Personen : Lambert Gary
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Quellen-Verweis NI02157 :

Personen : Lambert Ann
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Quellen-Verweis NI02158 :

Personen : Raymond Cora May
Burial: Sacred Heart Cemetery, Oconee, Shelby County, Illinois.

Quellen-Verweis NI02160 :

Personen : Eck Terry J.
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Quellen-Verweis NI02165 :

Personen : Eck Gilbert
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Quellen-Verweis NI02168 :

Personen : Miller Lora Dawn
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Quellen-Verweis NI02169 :

Personen : Miller Dana Marie
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Quellen-Verweis NI02170 :

Personen : Miller Jody Lee
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Quellen-Verweis NI02172 :

Personen : Eck Catherine Marie
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Quellen-Verweis NI02173 :

Personen : Eck Teri "Terry" Ann
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Quellen-Verweis NI02174 :

Personen : Eck Jamie Lynn
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Quellen-Verweis NI02175 :

Personen : Eck Brian James
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Quellen-Verweis NI02177 :

Personen : Swanson Sean Matthew
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Quellen-Verweis NI02178 :

Personen : Swanson Erin Michael
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Quellen-Verweis NI02179 :

Personen : Harris Gary
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Quellen-Verweis NI02180 :

Personen : Harris Robin Lee
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Quellen-Verweis NI02181 :

Personen : Harris Randy Wayne
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Quellen-Verweis NI02182 :

Personen : Harris Christina "Tina" Marie
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Quellen-Verweis NI02184 :

Personen : Alderson Jennifer "Jenny" Eileen
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Quellen-Verweis NI02185 :

Personen : Alderson Colleen Jonelle
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Quellen-Verweis NI02186 :

Personen : Pettyjohn Sandra "Sondra" Denise
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Quellen-Verweis NI02187 :

Personen : Diss Angela "Angie" Marie
Social Security Number: 336-74-5710
Died in car accident.

Quellen-Verweis NI02188 :

Personen : Diss Laura Lenel
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Quellen-Verweis NI02191 :

Personen : Huntziger Christiana
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Quellen-Verweis NI02192 :

Personen : Eck Guillaum "William"
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Quellen-Verweis NI02193 :

Personen : Eck Eric
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Quellen-Verweis NI02194 :

Personen : Eck Valerie
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Quellen-Verweis NI02196 :

Personen : Eck Alexander
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Quellen-Verweis NI02197 :

Personen : VanMeter Abraham
a/k/a - Abraham Van Meter
Burial: Van Meter Family Cemetery, Van Meter State Park, a few miles north of Marshall, Saline County, Missouri.
"Van Meter Family History"
"The Van Meters were Holland Dutch, reached New Amsterdam in 1663, and subsequently moved into New Jersey. In the third generation of the family was John Van Meter, who commanded a trading expedition into the wilds of Virginia, as early as 1739, and four of his sons subsequently settled in the mountain districts of old Virginia. (No mention is made of Jacob and the other two sons). His son Isaac Van Meter with his wife and four children settled at historic Fort Pleasant in what is now Hardy County, West Virginia, in 1744. (This indicates that he was considerably older than his brother Jacob, who was twenty-one years old in 1744, while brother Isaac was married and had four children by that year.) He therefore owned the ground on which Fort Pleasant was built, the scene of the first battle of the Revolutionary War. (Believe this is confused with the Battle of Point Pleasant, October 10, 1774, several hundred miles to the west at the juncture of the Great Kanawha and Ohio Rivers.)
"Isaac Van Meter, brother of Jacob, was killed and scalped by the Indians near his fort in 1757. One of his sons was Colonel Garret Van Meter who was born in New York in February 1732, and was a boy of twelve when the family located at Fort Pleasant. In 1756 he married Mrs. Ann Markee Sibley, and after the death of his father, inherited Mount Pleasant and a large tract of surrounding land. He was a colonel of a regiment of militia in General Washington's army in the Revolution. After the war he and his wife lived at old Fort Pleasant, where they died full of years. Only two of their sons grew to mature years, Isaac, born in 1757 and Jacob, born May 18, 1764. These brothers married sisters, Bettie and Tabitha Inskeep, whose mother was Hannah McCulock (McCulloch), a daughter of the most famous Indian fighter and scout of his day. (Travelers through present Wheeling may note a marker at the site of McCulloch's leap, over a bluff to escape from the savages.)
"Jacob Van Meter, the younger son of Colonel Garrett Van Meter, inherited the Fort Pleasant homestead, where he and his wife, Tabitha, spent their lives. He was colonel of a regiment in the second war with Great Britain in 1812. He became a flour miller in the South Branch Valley and for many years was a partner of Chief Justice Marshall in the breeding of thoroughbred horses. He was also one of the chief pillars of the Presbyterian church in his valley."
Another Jacob Van Meter, a man of some note in early day Kentucky, was born at what was known as White Stone Tavern, in Botetourt County, Virginia in January 1788 and came to Warren County, Kentucky, settling at Bowling Green, in 1818. He was in the mercantile business there for over fifty years, dying February 27, 1874. He also engaged in farming on a large scale, owning between 4,000 and 5,000 acres of land and a large number of slaves. He acquired great wealth, is said to have lost over $75,000 worth of property during "the late conflict between the South and the North." He built and operated the first steamboat on the Barren and Green Rivers; with James Skiles, he procured a charter and built the Bowling Green and Portage Railroad, the first railroad in Kentucky.
Jacob Van Meter of Warren County married Martha Usher Shrewsbury, of Irish descent. They were parents of eight children, Dr. Samuel K. Van Meter being one of their sons, William S. Van Meter another, who with his brother, Charles, in 1868 purchased the Grayson Springs property in Grayson County and developed it into one of the most popular watering places during the latter part of the last century. Following his death in 1884, the property was sold for $100,000, quite a sum for those days.
The grandfather of Jacob Van Meter of Warren County, appears to have been Henry Van meter, born 1717 in the Somerset Colony of New Jersey, a brother of Jacob Van Meter, born 1723 in Somerset County, New Jersey.
Henry Van Meter married Eve Pyle. One of his sons was Captain Jacob Van Meter, born 1752 in Virginia, died 1838 in Hardin County, Kentucky, who served as an ensign in Clark's Illinois Regiment, later as captain of Kentucky militia, who married (1) in Virginia a Miss Covenhaven, married (2) Rebecca Rawlings, in Kentucky. Another son of Henry Van Meter was Isaac Van Meter, who appears to have remained in Virginia, where he married Hattie Beck, a daughter of Lydia Burden (Borden), whose father was Benjamin Burden (Borden) Sr., a very noted land developer in early Virginia. (See Kegley's 'Virginia Frontier, with reference to Borden's Grant). On November 6, 1739, for diverse good causes but more especially in consideration that Benjamin Borden, late of the Province of East Jersey, now of the county of Orange in Virginia hath lately caused to be imported and settled on the land hereinafter mentioned one family for every thousand acres,' there was granted the said Benjamin Borden one certain tract or parcel of land containing 92,100 acres."
Most of the Borden grant was located in present Rockbridge County, Virginia. Perrin's 'History states that Henry Van Meter had, before George Washington's day, surveyed the Fairfax estate, an immense tract of land granted by George III.
Jacob Van Meter, who died in Hardin County November 16, 1798, was born in Somerset County, New Jersey in March 1723, a son of John Van Meter and his second wife Margaret Miller Mulinaur, grew up in Virginia where his father had settled in the Shenandoah Valley, and became a wealthy land owner and horse breeder. He drew up a lengthy will, (Will of John Van Meter, Winchester, Virginia September 3, 1745), in which Jacob Van Meter was called "my fourth and youngest son," by which he inherited an equal share of "all Staylen (stallions), geldings, mares, colts." He inherited land, but not the estate "Opequen" on which his father lived, since he was the youngest.
Kegley's 'Virginia Frontier in describing the earliest history of Virginia, says: "The Van Meters cross the Powtomack (Potomac River). John and Isaac Van Meter were traders who knew the country about the Potomac and the Shenandoah as early as 1728. After 1721 Isaac lived in New Jersey, but John had moved westward toward the southwest part of Maryland. In 1730 their petitions for 10,000 acres each in the forks of the Sherando River and 20,000 more for other families were granted. This was not to interfere with the surveys of Carter and Page."...Jost Hite with Robert McKay began acquiring land in the Shenandoah Valley in 1731. They with one hundred families were desirous of seating (settling) themselves on the back of the Great Mountains on land lying between the land of John Van Meter, Jacob Stover, John Fishback and others. ... Hite acquired the Van Meter grants in 1734 and patents began to issue to his settlers, one thousand acres to each family...joining the land of 'Jost Heyd' and others.
John Van Meter and his brother, Isaac, were granted 110,000 acres of land in the Shenandoah Valley by the Royal Governor, William Gooch, which they later sold to their cousin, Jost Hite, after selecting choice sites for themselves, while it was still a wilderness.
About 1768, Jacob Van Meter, together with John Swan, Sr., others, made a tour of the lands, then claimed as part of northwestern Virginia, since established as a southwestern part of Pennsylvania. They had decided to sell their property in the Winchester vicinity and locate on land which would be granted for service in the French and Indian War. They reached the vicinity of present Carmichaelstown (in present Green County, Pennsylvania) and 'tomahawked' (marked on trees) such land as they wanted along Muddy Creek in what is known as 'Ten Mile Country,' land lying along Ten Mile Creek, a tributary of that stream. Returning home, they brought back their families, slaves and such household goods as could be carried on pack horses. There were about fifty people in the party which settled along Muddy Creek.
Van Meter was granted 400 acres of land on the west side of the Monongahela, Application Number 2405, dated April 3, 1769, also a grant for 211 acres, a tract called 'Burgundy,' also on the west side of the river.
John Swan, Thomas Hughes and Henry Van Meter, brother of Jacob, were also granted land for services, and all four erected forts, located near each other on bottom land, not far from the mouth of Muddy Creek: Fort Van Meter, by Jacob VanMeter, on Muddy Creek; Fort Swan, by John Swan, on Swan's Run, and another Fort Van Meter, by Henry Van Meter, on Swan's Run. The location of Thomas Hughes' fort is not listed.
That Jacob Van Meter was a deeply religious man is attested by his actions in helping organize three Baptist churches in his lifetime. Ellis' 'History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania' relates the story of the forming of the Great Bethel Regular Baptist church: "This organization was formed in the year 1770, and is evidently one of the first religious societies established with the boundaries of Fayette County (Penn.)... In the oldest books of records...the following letter is copied verbatim, viz: 'The supposed in Province of Pennsylvania, holding Believers, Baptism, &c, sindeth greeting. 'To all Christian People to whom these may Concern,...Sign'd by us this Eighth day of November in the year of our lord Christ--1770.
Witness our hands, Jacob Vanmetre [sic]
Richard Hall
Zepheniah Blackford
Because we are few in number our sisters are allowed to sign.
Rachel Sutton
Lettice Vanmetre
Sarah Hall
N.B. "That this Church was Constituted by me, Nov. 7th, 1770, and that the Bearer was licensed to Preach before me, or in my Presence, as witness my hand this 8th day of Nov., 1770. Henry Crosbye'."
Jacob Van Meter was instrumental in the organization of another church while living in Pennsylvania: Goshen Baptist Church, organized in 1774 in Garrard's Fort, when he moved there. In that original body were found ten members of the Van Meter family: Jacob and his wife, Letitia, Rebecca and her husband, Edward Rawlings, Susannah and her husband, Reverend John Garrard, Mary and her husband, David Henton (who was the first clerk of this church), Elizabeth, and her husband John Swan, Jr.
Jacob VanMeters' Migration from Greene County to The Falls Of The Ohio
A list of the families who settled in the "Ten Mile Country" is of interest in that their associations did not end there, but through marriage and otherwise, continued in Kentucky: Van Meter, Swan, Strode, Hughes, Shelby, Harrod, Coleman, Brown, Rice, Biggs, Kincaid, Chenoweth, Garrard, Heaton (Henton). They doubtless regarded themselves as being "Virginians", living on the land claimed by both Virginia and Pennsylvania, and had a feeling of support for a "fellow Virginian," George Rogers Clark, not felt by the Pennsylvanians in Clark's military campaigns during the Revolution.
An Account of George Rogers Clark in the migration to the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville, Ohio which occurred about a year before the Van Meter party moved to Harden County, Kentucky. The Revolution had not ended but the men from "Ten Mile Country" had returned from the war in the Northwest Territory and some would be in the colony of over a hundred people organized by Jacob Van Meter, Sr., to move to "Kaintucke."
Samuel Gordon Smythe, a Van Meter historian, wrote that Jacob Van Meter's daughter, Margaret, married Samuel Haycraft "en route" to Kentucky. They were married September 9, 1779, at Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) by Reverend John Corbley about the time Van Meter was organizing the colony to migrate to Kentucky. Whether Margaret Van Meter had known Mr. Haycraft prior to coming to Fort Pitt is not known, but it may appear that the courtship was of brief duration. The Van Meters had been living in the Muddy Creek section, while Haycraft and his brother had lived in the Fort Pitt community for some period of time in the household of Colonel John Nevill, coming there to live when the eldest of the three Haycraft orphan boys was eleven years of age.
Minutes of a Court held for Yohoghania County, Virginia March 23, 1779 (this prior to the date when that section was established as part of Pennsylvania) granted permission to pass unmolested to the Falls of the Ohio. On September 18, 1779, Jacob Van Meter and his family had been granted certificates of dismission by the Goshen Baptist Church. Soon twenty-seven house boats were, under the direction of Jacob Van Meter, Sr., floating down the Ohio, bringing the families and all their household goods, livestock and anything they could pile on the boats. All of the Van Meter children, with exception of daughter Eleanor, accompanied their parents, together with their husbands and wives. One babe in arms was in the party, the little daughter of Lieutenant John Swan, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth Van Meter. Swan was sitting on deck on one of the boats with his little girl in his arms when he was struck by an Indian arrow, fired from the river bank. His wife grabbed his gun and began helping the men ward off the attack. Another tragedy struck the party. Mary Van Meter's husband, David Henton, fell into the river while helping unload the boats and was drowned. Henton's death left his widow with two children, Hester Henton, born January 9, 1775, who would marry Walter Briscoe, and John C. Henton, born November 9, 1778, who would marry Catherine Keith.
Stephen Rawlings, father of Edward Rawlings, who had married Rebecca Van Meter, together with his family, were in the party. So was Jacob Van Meter, son of Henry Van Meter, one time ensign in Clark's Illinois Regiment and later a captain of Jefferson County Militia. In the party were two families of slaves belonging to the senior Van Meter. In his will were provisions that they were to be set free upon the death of his wife. They were to serve her during her lifetime, but if she lived until they were thirty years old, they were to be given their freedom.
From the records of Goshen Baptist church:
A Church constituted by Rev Isaac Sutton and Daniel Fristoe on 7th day November 1773 consisting of thirty members men and women which mutually gave themselves to each other by the will of God in covenant.
Jacob Vanmeter and wife
Edward Robins and Rebeck
Abraham Vanmeter and wife
John Vanmeter and Rebeccah
Underwood and wife
Eastwood and wife
Elias Garard and wife
David Henton and Mary his wife
At a monthly meeting 11th December 1773 Jacob Vanmetre chosen Deacon John Vantrees to Praise the Psalm David Henton to Keep the Records. The Friday Before the Second Sabbath in Feb'y to Be Church Meeting again. The Saturday to be Preparation Day Before Communion
In 1778 Jacob Van Meter was with George Rogers Clark in Kentucky. In early 1778, Clark went from Williamsburg to Fort Pitt to recruit men and supplies. He then travelled down the Ohio River. At the Falls of the Ohio River, he established his camp in May 1778.
Minutes of the Court of Yohogania County for March 23rd, 1779 which read in part:John Corbley, Jacob Vanater, Abraham Vanmater, Isaac Dye, John Eastwood, Abraham Hold, John Holt, Robert Tyler, having produced recommendations from the County Court of Monongehala to pass unmolested to the Falls of Ohio which was read and approved of.
Goshen Baptist Church Records -- 9/8/1779
Met according to appointment on Saturday the 18th of September and proceeded to business. First agreed by the voice of the church that Brother Jacob Vanmetre take his seat in the house of God as formerly.
[Indicates that at least Jacob had left the community] Agreed by voice of the majority of the Church that Brother Alexander Briant/Bryant to be under censure for his not complying with the request of the Church.
We gave unto our beloved Brother Jacob Vanmetre, John Garard, John Ventrees, John Eastwood, Joseph Eastwood, John Gated, Isaac Dye, David Henton, Abraham Vanmetre, Jacob Vanmetre Junior, Rebecca Vantrees, Letitia Vanmetre, Hannah Dye, Mary Underwood, Mary Henton, Bambo and Dinah letters of dismission according to their request. We gave unto our beloved Brethren John Corblyand Elizabeth Corbly, his wife, Hannah Eastwood letters of dismission agreeable to their request.
Louisville, which had been established as a town at the Falls of the Ohio in 1780, saw great numbers of settlers from Virginia and Pennsylvania arrive by way of the Ohio River and scatter south into the country toward the Green River. Among them were Jacob Van Meter and his family who had arrived at the Falls in the previous fall and waited for the warm spring months before moving on to their new home.
The son, Abraham Van Meter, had at least one slave he brought with him from Virginia. This was "General Braddock", who earned his freedom through killing nine Indians. He moved from the Severns Valley settlement to Goodin's fort in the Rolling Fork when Abraham Van Meter's widow, who had inherited "General Braddock" from her husband, following his death from a poison Indian arrow, married Samuel Goodin. The slave was appraised at 100 pounds. On March 19, 1797 he was "set free forever". He afterwards married Becky Swan and lived on a small farm near Elizabethtown. This verifies that the Swans, who came out with the Van Meter party, also brought slaves to Kentucky. The son, Abraham Van Meter, had at least one slave he brought with him from Virginia. This was "General Braddock", who earned his freedom through killing nine Indians. He moved from the Severns Valley settlement to Goodin's fort in the Rolling Fork when Abraham Van Meter's widow, who had inherited "General Braddock" from her husband, following his death from a poison Indian arrow, married Samuel Goodin. The slave was appraised at 100 pounds. On March 19, 1797 he was "set free forever". He afterwards married Becky Swan and lived on a small farm near Elizabethtown. This verifies that the Swans, who came out with the Van Meter party, also brought slaves to Kentucky.
Abraham Van Meter's land grant was near Shelbyville and he and his family were stationed with Squire Boone at Boone's fort, when it was attacked by Indians. The Indians were repulsed but Abraham was struck by an arrow; he was only grazed and thought nothing of it, but in a few days became violently ill and died. Another story of his death is that he was killed near the present site of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
In the spring of 1780, the colony under Jacob Van Meter arrived in Severns Valley. He immediately began construction of a fort for protection against Indians. Mrs. Sim's Van Meter information states that the Van Meter fort was located near the big spring at the power house on the Leitchfield road, for a long time the source of the Elizabethtown water supply. This site was very close to the site of Andrew Hynes' fort which was built about the same date. Others have placed the Van Meter fort at the site of the Van Meter house on Billy's Creek (the old Strickler place).
Jacob Van Meter built a grain mill on Valley Creek where Billy's Creek enters it. Others say he also had a still. (He had a still and a tavern license to keep travelers in his home at the time of his death.) He is said to have raised the first wheat in Hardin County, having brought the seed with him from Virginia.
Jefferson County records show that Jacob Van Meter, Stephen Rawlings and Edward Rawlings bought land from John Severns, who also sold 400 acres to Andrew Hynes in November 1779. Judge Otis Mather has written that John Severns, Andrew Hynes, Elisha Freeman and Thomas McCarty built crude cabins in Severns Valley in the summer of 1779, the year before forts were built in the Valley. There is a possibility that Banah (Benham) Shaw was in the Valley at that early date, also.
A year after arrival in Severns Valley, Jacob Van Meter assisted in organizing the Severns Valley Baptist Church, the oldest church west of the Allegheny Mountains, still in existence and one of the largest Baptist bodies in Kentucky at this date [1976].
Jacob Van Meter accumulated much land in Kentucky. At the time of his death, November 16, 1798, he owned 7,891 acres. The inventory of his estate covers four pages of Will Book A, pages 80 to 84 and 216, Hardin County Court.
VanMeter came to Severn's Valley and later settled on the farm known as the "Strickler Place,' about two miles from Elizabethtown on Billy's Creek, near where it joins that main stream of Valley Creek. He built a fort near Haycraft's soon after his arrival. In the party with VanMeter were his three sons, Jacob, Jr., Isaac, and John; seven daughters, and two sons-in-law, Samuel Haycraft, husband of Margaret, and John Gerrard [Garrard], husband of Susan. One son-in-law, David Henton, the husband of his daughter, Mary, was drowned in the river on the trip down the Ohio.
The elder VanMeter was an extensive landholder, having fourteen grants of land from the Virginia government, dated 1783 and 1784. One was a preemption Treasury Warrant signed by Beverly Randolph. Doubtless, some of the land was divided among his children and members of his family. The Auditor's office has no record of land granted to his son-in-law, Samuel Haycraft.
VanMeter built a small grist mill at the mouth of Billy's Creek for grinding corn and wheat. Corn was ground there for the small distillery operated by Samuel Haycraft. Samuel Haycraft, Jr., who wrote the "History of Elizabethtown" mentions that, as a young boy it was his duty to go with a bag of corn three times daily (Sunday excepted) to the mill of his grandfather.
VanMeter was in the original constitution of the Severn's Valley Baptist Church. His wife, his son, Jacob, Jr., and his Negro man, Bambo, were also members. Many of his descendants have become noted in carrying on the work of the church.
Jacob VanMeter died at his home on November 16, 1798, having lived a long life of usefulness. He was buried on the farm near his home. His son, Jacob, procured a sandstone rock for a tombstone and cut the following inscription on it: 'Here Lizes The Body of Jacob VanMeter Died in the 76 Yare of His Age November the 16, 1798,' the letters of which are today readable.
There were three Jacob VanMeters living in the Severn's Valley community at the one time, the elder Jacob, his son, Jacob, Jr., and Jacob Van Meter, the son of Henry Van Meter, the elder Van meter's brother. To relieve the confusion, the elder Van Meter was called 'Valley Creek Jake' and his nephew, 'Miller Jake,' both men operating mills in the Valley.
Jacob Van Meter, Sr., died in 1798 and his wife, Letitia Stroud, who died the following year saw the little settlement in its earliest years and did not live to see it grow into the important position it was destined to occupy in the new state. Many of their descendants live within the borders of the county they helped settle, others moved on to other frontiers in the developing country.
From "Haycraft's History of Elizabethtown" by Samuel Haycraft, "originally serialized in the 'Elizabethtown News' in 1869, also during the 1880s and early 1890s. And for the third time in 1905." Copyright 1960 by the Hardin County Historical Society.
Jacob Vanmeter, Sr., with his family, emigrated from Monongahala [sic] (called by the old folks "Monongahale,") in 1779, landing at the falls of the Ohio that fall, and in the year 1780 came to Severns Valley and settled on the farm now owned by George W. Strickler, two miles from Elizabethtown, on Valley Creek, at the mouth of Billy's Creek, on which last- named creek he built a grist mill for corn and wheat; and although there remains at this day not a vestige of that mill, yet I ought to know where it stood, as my father carried on a one-horse distillery, and when I was about eight years old it was my daily business (Sunday excepted) to go with a bag of corn three times a day. My grandfather continued to reside there until his death, which occurred on the 16th day of November, 1798. He was in the original constitution of Severns Valley Baptist Church on the 17th day of June, 1781. His wife (my grandmother), his son, Jacob, and his Negro man, Bambo, were also members.
At his death he left a large family, all grown. It is now nearly seventy-two years since his death, and, like the old patriot Jacob, his descendants have multiplied like a fruitful vine that ran over the wall, for they are scattered East, West, North and South, and may be found in every State and territory in the Union, and from the least calculation that can be made they now amount to at least 3,000 souls. And that will not appear so surprising when you are informed that one out of his numerous grandsons had his thirtieth child born the night of his death. But that was over the average of the family, as the number of the most of his descendants to each family ran on an average from nine to eleven children, but frequently exceeded those numbers. My mother had eleven.
My grandfather was buried on his own farm, I was present at his interment, being then three years and three months old, and have a distinct recollection of the occasion. His son Jacob procured a sand rock and cut a tombstone, which is yet in good state of preservation, and every letter distinct at this day. On the 5th day of February, 1849, I visited the grave, having a little grandson with me, and pointed out to him (as one of the fifth generation) the spot that contained the remains of his great, great grandfather. And as the inscription itself on the stone is a piece of antiquity, particularly as to its orthography, I will here give something like a facsimile of it:
"HERE LIZES
THE BODY OF
JACOB VANMATER
DIED IN THE 76
YARE OF HIS AGE
NOVEMBER THE 16
1798"
The spelling is rather of the normal style, and is an honest attempt to carry out the sound. Thus the word year is spelt YARE, containing all the proper letters of the word, but misplaced; but the sound as spelt in the epitaph is precisely as he always pronounced it for nearly ninety years. Therefore, let no man pretend to criticize it or alter it. It is a jewel to me; so all mankind let it alone. It is the honest home-spun epitaph of a good man and Christian who braved all the perils and dangers of his day honorable, kind, hospitable and generous, and truly a patriarch.

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