Individual Details
Margaret Van Meter
(27 Dec 1759 - 12 Apr 1843)
Events
| Birth | 27 Dec 1759 | Frederick, Virginia, British America |  | ||
| Marriage | 9 Sep 1779 | Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States - Samuel Haycraft Sr. |  | | |
| Death | 12 Apr 1843 | Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States | | ||
| Burial | Elizabethtown City Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Samuel Haycraft Sr. (1752 - 1823) |
| Child | Nancy A Haycraft (1782 - 1866) |
| Child | John Samuel Haycraft (1784 - 1857) |
| Child | Letitia "Lelly" Haycraft (1785 - 1805) |
| Child | Amelia Haycraft (1787 - 1866) |
| Child | Mary "Polly" Haycraft (1789 - 1868) |
| Child | Elizabeth "Betsy" Haycraft (1791 - 1868) |
| Child | Rebecca Haycraft (1792 - 1871) |
| Child | Margaret "Peggy" Haycraft (1793 - 1873) |
| Child | Samuel Haycraft Jr. (1795 - 1878) |
| Child | Rev Presley Neville Haycraft (1797 - 1889) |
| 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 | 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 | 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
In September 1779, when the Van Meter party began their journey to Kentucky their route took them through Fort Pitt, a large star-shaped palisade made of earth and logs that lay at the juncture of the Ohio and Monogahela Rivers, on the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was there that one of Jacob Van Meter's daughters, nineteen-year-old Margaret, met and married a young Virginia militiaman named Samuel Haycraft. The Reverend John Corbley performed the service. Although it is supposed that the couple's courtship was brief, because Haycraft and his two brothers, James and Joshua were orphans who had been raised by John Neville, a neighbor of the Van Meter family in the "Ten Mile Country" it's possible that Margaret and Samuel already knew each other. It appears that shortly he was married, young Haycraft's term of enlistment expired, freeing him and his bride to join her father's expedition to Kentucky.Endnotes
1. 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. 190.
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. 12-27-1759.
3. Unknown. A Story of a Van Matre Family. (Eleven pages copied by Shirley Lillie,
4. 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), 204; digital images, Google, Google Books ( : accessed 6 April 2015.
5. , "Jacob Van Meter, Sr." Who was who in Hardin County. (: The Hardin County Historical Society,), p. 159-160.
6. Steven Butler, "Van Meter Family," Webpage
7. 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. 190.
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).