Individual Details
Tabitha Inskeep
(11 Mar 1767 - 27 Sep 1851)
Events
| Birth | 11 Mar 1767 | Hampshire, Virginia, United States |  | ||
| Marriage | 1 Jan 1791 | Hardy, Virginia, United States - Colonel Jacob Van Meter |  | | |
| Will | 28 Dec 1829 | Hardy, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Census | 25 Oct 1850 | Hardy, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Death | 27 Sep 1851 | | |||
| Burial | Old Fields Church Cemetery, Old Fields, Hardy, Virginia, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Colonel Jacob Van Meter (1764 - 1829) |
| Child | Hannah Van Meter (1791 - 1878) |
| Child | Anne Van Meter (1793 - 1891) |
| Child | Isaac Van Meter (1794 - 1854) |
| Child | Solomon Van Meter (1796 - 1818) |
| Child | Rebecca Van Meter (1797 - 1798) |
| Child | Rebeckah Van Meter (1799 - 1882) |
| Child | Joseph Inskeep Van Meter (1802 - 1805) |
| Child | Benjamin Franklin Van Meter (1803 - 1805) |
| Child | Abraham Van Meter (1804 - 1863) |
| Child | Garrett Van Meter (1806 - 1865) |
| Child | Susanna Van Meter (1807 - ) |
| Child | Sarah Inskeep "Sally" Van Meter (1810 - 1878) |
| Father | Joseph Inskeep (1733 - 1806) |
| Mother | Hannah McCullock / McCulloch (1737 - 1791) |
| Sibling | William Inskeep (1759 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Inskeep (1761 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth "Bettie" Inskeep (1763 - ) |
| Sibling | Amelia Inskeep (1765 - ) |
| Sibling | Hannah Inskeep (1769 - ) |
| Sibling | Joseph Inskeep (1771 - ) |
Notes
Marriage
Jacob Vanmeter son of Garret ” [Vanmeter] and Tabitha his wife Daughter of Joseph Inskeep was join [sic] together in marriage by the Rev’d Jos. Jennings in Hardy County Virginia Fort Pleasant Old Fields January the 1st day 1791Will
Last Will and Testament, Tabitha VanMeterWill Book 8, Page 455
Hardy County Clerk’s Office
Moorefield, WV
I, Tabitha Vanmeter of Hardy County and State of Virginia, being of sound mind but as life is uncertain, and death is the common lot of all mankind, I do make and constitute this, as my last Will and testament.
Item. My Body, I resign to its Mother Earth, and my soul to God who gave it.
Item I give and devise to my four beloved and affectionate daughters, viz. Ann, Rebecca, Susan and Sally I. Vanmeter, for their faithful services, all the property bequeathed to me by the Will of my beloved & deceased husband, Jacob Van Meter, together with all the property which I possess, of all, and every description, to be equally divided among them, for their use and benefit forever, and to be disposed of as they may think most meet and proper.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 28 day of December in the year of our Lord, 1829.
Tabitha Vanmeter (seal)
Signed, sealed and published
in the presence of us
Jacob Vanmeter
John Ogilvie
David Vanmeter
Census
1310, 1323, Tabitha Vanmeter, 83 F, 3000, VAAnna " , 57 F, 3000, VA
Rebecca " , 51 F, 3000, VA
Susanna " , 42 F, 3000, VA
Endnotes
1. Vanmeter Bible Records, Scott Van Metre online http://www.vanmetre.com/Bible%20Records/Bibles%20records.htm], accessed Oct 2007.
2. Jeannette Holland Austin, Virginia Bible Records (Westminister, MD: Heritage Books, 2008), 246; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 7 December 2009.
3. Van Meter, Benjamin Franklin, Genealogies and sketches of some old families who have taken prominent part in the development of Virginia and Kentucky especially, and later of many other states of the Union (Louisville Ky: J.P. Morton, 1901, 207 pgs.), p. 51.
4. Anna Hunter Van Meter, "A Glance at the Van Meter Family in the United States of America." Salem, New Jersey, March 1902. (Papers held by the Western Kentucky University Library in Bowling Green, transcribed by John H. Ross).
5. McClure, Daniel E. Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky. Including Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Citizens of Past and Present Times. (Elizabethtown: KY. The Hardin County Historical Society, Inc. 1979.), p 193.
6. Vanmeter Bible Records, Scott Van Metre online http://www.vanmetre.com/Bible%20Records/Bibles%20records.htm], accessed Oct 2007.
7. Jeannette Holland Austin, Virginia Bible Records (Westminister, MD: Heritage Books, 2008), 246; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 7 December 2009.