Individual Details
Joseph Harrison Van Meter
(29 Sep 1792 - 28 Oct 1887)
Events
Families
Spouse | Elizabeth Evans ( - ) |
Child | Thomas Van Meter ( - ) |
Child | Jacob Van Meter ( - ) |
Child | Henry Van Meter ( - ) |
Child | Daniel Van Meter ( - ) |
Child | Nathaniel Van Meter ( - ) |
Child | David Van Meter ( - ) |
Spouse | Elizabeth Burkham Grundy (1800 - 1832) |
Child | Jacob Rhodes Van Meter (1824 - 1910) |
Child | Susan Grundy Van Meter (1826 - 1886) |
Child | Julius Jackson Van Meter (1829 - 1894) |
Child | Hugo Grotius Van Meter (1831 - 1885) |
Spouse | Jemima Nelson (1802 - 1835) |
Spouse | Elizabeth Treadway (1807 - 1849) |
Child | John Van Meter (1839 - ) |
Child | Elizabeth Van Meter (1841 - ) |
Child | Mary V Van Meter (1846 - ) |
Spouse | Sarah Carvin (1809 - ) |
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 | Abraham Wickliffe Van Meter (1789 - 1868) |
Sibling | John Van Meter (1791 - 1878) |
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
Marriage
Ist wifeMarriage
2nd wifeMarriage
3rd wifeMarriage
4th wife - Mrs Sarah Carvin ThompsonVanmeter, Joseph H married Sarah Thompson in Bartholomew County on 9-27-1849
Census (family)
935, Joseph H Vanmetre, 57 M, Farmer, 18320, KYSarah " , 41 F, VA
Julius J " , 20 M, Farmer, IN
Grolius " , 18 M, Farmer, IN
John " , 11 M, 11 M, IN
Elizabeth " , 9 F, IN
Mary " , 4 F, IN
Hannah M Thompson, 13 F, IN
Edward H Thompson, 8 M, IN
Wesley Knight, 20 M, Laborer, IN
John Lawrence, 20 M, Laborer, IN
Samuel Davis, 19 M, Laborer, IN
Catherine Hyde, 22 F, VA
Census (family)
SELF Hugo G. Van Meeter M 48 Indiana, United StatesWIFE Damerst Van Meeter F 36 Illinois, United States
DAU Mabel Van Meeter F 11 Iowa, United States
SON John C. Van Meeter M 7 Iowa, United States
SON Bert D. Van Meeter M 5 Iowa, United States
DAU Kata Van Meeter F 1 Iowa, United States
FATH Joseph Van Meeter M 87 Kentucky, United States
MOTH Sarah S. Van Meeter F 71 Virginia, United States
Ida Matson F 20 Sweden
Edward Ivarson M 34 Sweden
Charles Griffith M 26 New York, United States
Marriage
This spouse is not listed in "Two Centuries," which lists four wives for Joseph Van Meter. It does have an Elizabeth Burkham Grundy.Burial
Inscription:aged 95 ys 28 ds
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 194.
2. Vanmeter Bible Records, Scott Van Metre online http://www.vanmetre.com/Bible%20Records/Bibles%20records.htm], accessed Oct 2007.
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. "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 15 August 2014), Joseph Vanmeter and Elizabeth Grundy, 29 Jun 1820; citing Bullitt County, Kentucky.
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 194.
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. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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 127.
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.
11. Vanmeter Bible Records, Scott Van Metre online http://www.vanmetre.com/Bible%20Records/Bibles%20records.htm], accessed Oct 2007.