Individual Details
Rebecca Van Meter
(11 Sep 1746 - Bef 1821)
She became known all over Hardin Co., as " Granny McKenzie."
* Jacob and Letitia lived by the waters of Muddy Creek for several years. They are among the names of signers for the organization of the Great Bethel Regular Baptist Church of Jesus Christ (now Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pa.), on Nov. 7, 1770. This church is one of the first religious societies established within the boundaries of present day Fayette Co. He also participated in the organization of Goshen Baptist Church organized in 1774 in Garrard's Fort (Greene County, PA). 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.
Events
| Birth | 11 Sep 1746 | Frederick, Virginia, British America |  | ||
| Marriage | Bef 1774 | British America - Edward Rawlings | | ||
| Marriage | Aft 1796 | Enoch "Frank" McKenzie | | ||
| Death | Bef 1821 | Hardin, Kentucky, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Edward Rawlings (1745 - 1796) |
| Child | Stephen Rawlings ( - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Rawlings ( - ) |
| Child | Ann Rawlings ( - ) |
| Child | Letitia Rawlings ( - ) |
| Child | Rebecca Rawlings (1777 - 1848) |
| Spouse | Enoch "Frank" McKenzie ( - 1805) |
| Father | Jacob Jansen "Valley Creek Jake" Van Meter Sr. (1723 - 1798) |
| Mother | Letitia "Letty" Strode (1725 - 1799) |
| Sibling | Eleanor Van Meter (1742 - 1811) |
| Sibling | Abraham Van Meter (1744 - 1781) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Van Meter (1752 - 1848) |
| Sibling | Susanna "Susan" Van Meter (1750 - 1798) |
| Sibling | Rachel Van Meter (1754 - 1841) |
| Sibling | Mary M. "Polly" Van Meter (1757 - 1832) |
| Sibling | Isaac Van Meter (1759 - 1840) |
| Sibling | Margaret Van Meter (1759 - 1843) |
| Sibling | Jacob "of Otter Creek" Van Meter Jr. (1762 - 1850) |
| Sibling | John Van Meter (1764 - 1806) |
| Sibling | Alcinda "Alsey, Aisley" Van Meter (1766 - 1828) |
| Sibling | William Van Meter (1766 - 1808) |
Endnotes
1. Ross, John Harlow "Pete"., Email on the family of Etersa (Van Meter) Ross with anecdotes on Van Meter ancestry. (
2. Wood, Melba, Loper-Keller-VanMeter and allied lines : Rhoads, Keele, Searles, Haynes, and many other pioneer settlers of Macoupin County, Illinois (Godfrey, Ill.: Illinois Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1969, 57 pgs. ), has b. 9- -1746.
3. Unknown. A Story of a Van Matre Family. (Eleven pages copied by Shirley Lillie,
4. Lillie, Shirley., Van Meter genealogy emails and group sheets. (Montezuma, Iowa: Shirley Lillie,
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. 17.
6. Howard L. Leckey, The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families: A Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley (1977; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 2009), 200; digital images, Google, Google Books ( : accessed 6 April 2015.