Matthias Yoakum

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 15 Jan 1752, Peach Creek Twp, Greenbrier Co, West Virginia

Notes:

He served in Capt. Ray's Co, Lincoln Mil., fought at the Battle of Point Pleasant, WV on 10 Oct 1774, along with Daniel Boone, Isaac Michael Van Bebber John Van Bebber and Peter Van Bebber. Isaac was killed in that battle, fought with an Indian group led by Chief Corstalk, who was also killed there. The Indian group was hired by the British. The Claiborne Co., TN Historical Quarterly states that George, along with John and Peter Van Bibber, established Yoakum's Station in then Grainger Co, which is now Claiborne Co. It is about 14 miles from the Cumberland Gap. In 1797 Fort Yoakum was built nearby.

George was killed on a bear hunt in the Cumberland Mountains
It is reported that George and his brother-in-law established Yoakum's Station in article furnished by Jack Reber. It reports George killed on a bear hunt and buried near the station. He built Yoakum's Fort about 14 miles from the Cumberland Gap. It is also reported that Yoakum's Fort was on the Wilderness Road in Lee Co., VA, about 14 miles from the Cumberland Gap before Yoakum's Station in TN. I cannot find it on the DeLorme Atlas of Virginia.
Granger Co. Court Minutes Book #1, Pages 174-75, dated 18 May 1801, ordered Martha and Isaac Yoakum to administer the estate of George Yoakum, deceased. John Vanbebber and Robert
Howard were securities.

R. A. Yoakum of Morristown, TN wrote that George married Margaret Van Bibber 1777, daughter of Isaac Michael Van Bibber. He relates the story that during the Indian attack which claimed all the rest of the family, George grabbed a "skillet handle" from one Indian and killed three Indians with it. George would have been only about 13 years old, unless one accepts Harold M. Yoakum's version. (?)

Harold M. Yoakum, in his book, page 12, reports that the massacre took place in 1773, the year he says that Valentine was killed, that George was born 1752, thus George would have been about 21 years old when he grabbed the skillet handle used to kill two Indians. Very soon thereafter, he states that George joined Captain Ray's Company of the Lincoln Militia of Illinois (??)

If Steve Smith's research is correct, and it appears trustworthy, then that story about his escape is not true. To support his theory, the Indians killed all grown men, taking only women and children prisoners. Thus any older George Yocum would not have survived. A George Yoakum was among the prisoners released by the Indians had to have been a child captive. No other George Yocum near that age has ever surfaced, thus it is strong evidence that that captive George was this George.

This George was in Lord Dunmore's war, which was just prior to the Revolutionary War and not considered part of the Revolution, thus no revolutionary pension.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arick-senecal&id=I2776



Died:
Cumberland Mountains, Killed in a bear hunt

George married Martha "Patty\Patsy" Van Bibber in 1777 in Greenbrier Co, West Virginia. Martha (daughter of Rev. Isaac Michael Van Bibber, Sr and Sarah Davis) was born about 1766 in Montgomery Co, Missouri; died after 1819 in Salisbury Twp, Sangamon Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1754, Lunenburg Co, Virginia

Notes:

The mother [Martha Yoakum] moved with her family about 1810 to Madison County near Edwardsville, Illinois. They moved next to Montgomery County, Illinois and then to Sangamon County, Illinois, arriving June 10, 1819, at the north side of Richland Creek, in what is now Salisbury Township. The mother died there.

Notes:

These kids found at ancestry.com tree:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16564381/person/391500021

kids born all over the place. Doesn't seem logical. Not verified - at all.

Valentine married Margaret See in 1748 in West Virginia. Margaret was born in 1725 in Schoharie Co, New York; died on 11 Mar 1815 in Franklin, Coshocton Co, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1767 Pittsylsvania CO VA tax list of Hugh Innes-
John, Peter and Isaac Van Bibber listed. Next to Peter and Isaac Van Bibber are Veath Dillingham with negro Jeany 2 taxables;
James Rentfro Sr. & Joseph Rentfro and Peter Rentfro 3 taxables
James Rentfro Jr. also listed.
John Calloway negroes- Flemen, Asher, Nan and Nell.
William and Joshua Dillingham 2 taxables.
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(terrye lambert in rootsweb)
Customers at the Greenbrier trading post of Sampson & George Matthews included: Isaac Van Bibber 6-1771 & 10-1772.
Those who paid with deerskins were Isaac Van Bibber, who killed the most deer, & Joseph & james Davis. Van Bibber selling at least 230 deerskins. Davis' sold more than 100 deerskins.
In 1774, Isaac Van Bibber, an Old Side Baptist Minister, served in the Southern Division of General Andrew Lewis, under command of Colonel Charles Lewis. Isaac was wounded in the Battle of Point Pleasant, on October 10, 1774, he died about 30 hours later, making his actual death date as October 11, 1774. He was buried beside Colonel Charles Lewis, & later moved, along with others, that were killed in the battle, to a nearby resting place.
An inventory of his possessions is found in Botetourt County, Virginia, his widoe, Sarah (Davis) Van Bibber, administrator.

Journal of the Greenbrier County Historical Society, Volume 4, No. 4. L. C. Draper's MMs, Volume 5, The Boone Papers, Letter of the Van Bibbers. History of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Otis Rice, page 102.
--Van Bibber Pioneers E-Newsletter, Volume 3, No. 7, May 1999. (August 24, 2001)
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Died:
From: Norma Lou Blake
To: lumoto@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:27 PM
Subject: Isaac Mjchael
Dear Sherry,
Isaac Michael Van Bibber 1725-1774 was killed in what is proclaimed one of the first battles - Battle of Point Pleasant in what was then Virginia. His son James Sr. is my line. Sometime after James Sr. they spelled it Van Bebber and that is how it is today.
Isaac was 49 when he was killed and left his family the youngest one under two I think.
Sincerely,
Norma Lou Van Bebber Blake
Nblake@macomb.com

Isaac married Sarah Davis on 27 Nov 1768 in Cecil Co, Maryland. Sarah was born about 1730 in North Carolina; died in 1796 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After Isaac Sr.'s death, his wife and five of children, including Peter, James, and John, moved to Claiborn County, Tennessee between 1785-1796 and helped establish Fort Yoakum on the Powell River in Washington County, Tennessee, in present-day Dryden, Wise County, Tennessee. His wife remarried to William Griffey.

Russell County:

P 375 June 21 1785 Ordered to be certified to the Auditors that Sarah VanBibber now wife of Wm. Griffy made sufficient proof to this court that she was two years the widow of Isaac Van Bibber and that she had seven children during her widowhood.

Vol 1787-1789 April 1788 Page 178 ordered that it be certified that Sarah VanBibber widow of Isaac VanBibber dec'd a pensioner who was allowed by the Commissioners of the Southern District in the year 1775 raised and maintained her family at her own expense having no estate of her husband's and that she is object in need of the allowance made her.
NOTE the Year 1788, she had not left Greenbrier County at this time to move to southwest Virginia with her children.

Notes:

He had land on the Pigg River near Stephen Cole, James Cole, John Cole, and Mark Cole.

mentioned by sister-in-law Mary FitzRandolph in execution of Jacob Van Bibber's estate.1733 as bro of her husband Jacob

Peter's sons, Peter, John, and Isaac, fought in the Battle of Point Pleasant at Point Pleasant, Mason County, Virginia against Indians under the command of Cornstalk. This battle has often been recognized as the first battle of the American Revolution. Isaac died in the battle. John was a Captain and served in Indian wars, Dunmore's War, Colonial wars, and the Revolutionary War. Peter Jr. died in Mason County and John died in Kanawha County, Virginia.

The husband of Peters daughter Brigetta was killed by Indians. Brigetta was taken prisoner.

Peter* married Ann* Henriette Gooding about 1715 in Cecil Co, Maryland. Ann* was born on 3 Feb 1696 in Pennsylvania; died after 1738 in Cecil Co, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

one source says her last name Goodin, but most have unk for her last name.