Individual Details
Abraham Wickliffe Van Meter
(1 Apr 1789 - 11 Nov 1868)
Events
| Birth | 1 Apr 1789 | Hardin, Kentucky, United States |  |  | |
| Census | 1810 | Hardin, Kentucky, United States | | | |
| Marriage | 18 May 1814 | Hardin, Kentucky, United States - Sarah Beal "Sally" Dorsey | | ||
| Census (family) | 21 Aug 1850 | Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, United States - Sarah Beal "Sally" Dorsey | | ||
| Census (family) | 1860 | Washington Township, Tazewell, Illinois, United States - Sarah Beal "Sally" Dorsey | | ||
| Death | 11 Nov 1868 | Washington Township, Tazewell, Illinois, United States | | ||
| Burial | Old Washington Cemetery, Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Beal "Sally" Dorsey (1793 - 1863) |
| Child | Jacob Van Meter (1826 - ) |
| Child | Edward A Van Meter (1831 - ) |
| Father | Jacob "of Otter Creek" Van Meter Jr. (1762 - 1850) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Rhodes (1770 - 1852) |
| Sibling | Isaac N. Van Meter (1787 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah "Sallie" Van Meter (1788 - 1873) |
| Sibling | John Van Meter (1791 - 1878) |
| Sibling | Joseph Harrison Van Meter (1792 - 1887) |
| Sibling | Thomas Rhodes Van Meter (1794 - 1872) |
| Sibling | Susan Newmire Van Meter (1796 - 1889) |
| Sibling | Jacob V. Van Meter (1798 - 1821) |
| Sibling | Henry Rhoads Van Meter (1800 - 1853) |
| Sibling | Daniel Boone Van Meter (1802 - 1880) |
| Sibling | Nathaniel Wickliffe Van Meter (1804 - 1865) |
| Sibling | Miles Chenowith Van Meter (1806 - 1880) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Van Meter (1808 - 1886) |
| Sibling | Mary Jane Van Meter (1811 - 1904) |
| Sibling | David Rhoads Van Meter (1813 - 1876) |
Notes
Birth
He was born two miles from Elizabethtown.Census
Abrm Vanmatre 2 0 0 1 0 / 2 1 0 1 0 0 0Married with 5 children - 2 girls and 2 boys under 10, one girl under
Census (family)
82, 82, Abraham Van Meter, 61 M, Farmer, 500, KYSally , 57 F, KY
Jacob , 24 M, KY
Edward A " , 19 M, KY
Sephronus " , 27 F, Mass
Charles " , 6 M, KY
William " , 4 M, KY
Ellen " , 3 F, KY
Elizabeth Langdon , 40 F, Mass
William C Vanmetre, 27 M, Baptist Minister, KY
Census (family)
228, 216, Abraham Vanmeter M 61 Ky, Farmer 3000, 300Sarah Vanmeter F 68 Ky
Giles Simpson M 15 NY
Endnotes
1. Haycraft, Samuel., A history of Elizabethtown Kentucky and its surroundings. Elizabethtown: KY, Hardin Co. Historical Society. 1975 (written in 1869), p. 132.
2. Smyth, Samuel Gordon, A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents (Lancaster, Pa.: New Era Print Co., 1909, 480 pgs.), p 402.
3. 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 194.
4. Vanmeter Bible Records, Scott Van Metre online http://www.vanmetre.com/Bible%20Records/Bibles%20records.htm], accessed Oct 2007.
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1810 > KENTUCKY > HARDIN > NO TWP LISTED Series: M252 Roll: 6 Page: 312.
6. 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 194.
7. Vanmeter Bible Records, Scott Van Metre online http://www.vanmetre.com/Bible%20Records/Bibles%20records.htm], accessed Oct 2007.
8. "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 6 April 2015), Abraham W. Vanmatre and Sally Dorsey, 18 May 1814; citing Hardin, Kentucky.
9. Haycraft, Samuel., A history of Elizabethtown Kentucky and its surroundings. Elizabethtown: KY, Hardin Co. Historical Society. 1975 (written in 1869), p. 132-133.
10. 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 194.