Individual Details
Garrett Van Meter
(20 Apr 1806 - 10 Aug 1865)
Provided by Hardy Co. Library
Moorefield, WV
Date of birth from Isaac VanMeter and Rebecca Cunningham VanMeter Family Bible. Old Fields Church Cemetery Records, Hardy County, West Virgina 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.
per Kentucky State Supreme Court Justice Laurance B. VanMeter's Family Tree
Moorefield, WV
Date of birth from Isaac VanMeter and Rebecca Cunningham VanMeter Family Bible. Old Fields Church Cemetery Records, Hardy County, West Virgina 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.
per Kentucky State Supreme Court Justice Laurance B. VanMeter's Family Tree
Events
| Birth | 20 Apr 1806 | Virginia, United States |  | ||
| Death | 10 Aug 1865 | Hardy, West Virginia, United States |
Families
| Father | Colonel Jacob Van Meter (1764 - 1829) |
| Mother | Tabitha Inskeep (1767 - 1851) |
| Sibling | Hannah Van Meter (1791 - 1878) |
| Sibling | Anne Van Meter (1793 - 1891) |
| Sibling | Isaac Van Meter (1794 - 1854) |
| Sibling | Solomon Van Meter (1796 - 1818) |
| Sibling | Rebecca Van Meter (1797 - 1798) |
| Sibling | Rebeckah Van Meter (1799 - 1882) |
| Sibling | Joseph Inskeep Van Meter (1802 - 1805) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Franklin Van Meter (1803 - 1805) |
| Sibling | Abraham Van Meter (1804 - 1863) |
| Sibling | Susanna Van Meter (1807 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Inskeep "Sally" Van Meter (1810 - 1878) |
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.