Individual Details
Elizabeth Van Meter
(Abt 1752 - 1848)
Elizabeth VAN METER married John VERTREES in Hardin County, 1795 and had one son Charles VERTREES born Feb. 25, 1797 in Hardin County died April 12,1850 in Wabash, Indiana.
Now we find that between John SWAN's death in 1782 and Elizabeth's marriage to John VERTREES in 1795 she was married to Thomas McNEIL and had children, Polly and Daniel.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1752 | Frederick, Virginia, British America |  | ||
| Marriage | 1769 | Greene, Pennsylvania, United States - Captain John Swan | | ||
| Marriage | 20 Aug 1782 | Thomas McNeill |  | | |
| Marriage | 7 Jul 1783 | Hardin, Kentucky, United States - Judge John Vertrees | |||
| Death | 1848 | Hardin, Kentucky, United States | | ||
| Burial | Old Vertrees Burying Ground, Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Captain John Swan (1744 - 1782) |
| Child | John Swan (1770 - ) |
| Child | Joel Swan ( - ) |
| Child | Thomas Swan (1777 - 1845) |
| Child | Letitia Swan (1778 - 1845) |
| Child | Elizabeth Swan (1780 - 1838) |
| Spouse | Thomas McNeill ( - ) |
| Child | Polly McNeill ( - ) |
| Child | Daniel McNeill (1785 - 1834) |
| Child | Susan McNeill ( - ) |
| Spouse | Judge John Vertrees (1741 - 1802) |
| Child | Charles Vertrees (1797 - 1850) |
| Child | Rachael Vertrees ( - ) |
| 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 | Rebecca Van Meter (1746 - 1821) |
| 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) |
Notes
Marriage
or July 7, 1782 (Ross per Trees-Rhodes)Endnotes
1. Steven Butler, "Van Meter Family," Webpage
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. 1748.
3. Unknown. A Story of a Van Matre Family. (Eleven pages copied by Shirley Lillie,
4. 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.), has b. abt 1752.
5. 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, born about 1748; digital images, Google, Google Books ( : accessed 6 April 2015.
6. Kemp, AnnaBelle, Lucas genealogy (Hollywood, Calif.: A. Kemp, 1964, 493 pgs.).
7. Kemp, AnnaBelle, Lucas genealogy (Hollywood, Calif.: A. Kemp, 1964, 493 pgs.), p. 112.
8. Pete Ross, compiler, Papers on Van Meter, Holtzclaw, and allied families (Montrose, CO: from Marjorie Olive Tree Rhodes and William W. Henton, Jan 2007).
9. Lillie, Shirley., Van Meter genealogy emails and group sheets. (Montezuma, Iowa: Shirley Lillie,