James D Van Bibber

Notes:

In 1832 his parents moved to Randolph County, Arkansas, where they died, leaving James D. still a child. In 1844 he came with his grandfather, Daniel Boone, to Greene County, Missouri, and settled on a farm near Ash Grove. He worked upon a far, and saved money enough to give himself a good common school education.
He taught school several terms, two in 1849, and one in the winter of 1850. In May, 1850, he sold goods for Alfred Stealey, at Cave Spring, which position he held until Mr. Stealey's death in 1853. Mrs. Stealey then gave Mr. Van Bibber entintrol of the store until 1856, when he bought the
stock of goods from her, and ran it on his own account until 1860.
He was married February 28, 1854, to Caroline, daughter of Alfred and
Lucinda (Brower) Stealey. They have been blest with two children, viz:
Alfred H. and Laura B. In 1869 he removed to Walnut Grove, where he
lived until 1874, when he made the race for county clerk upon the Democratic ticket, and was elected. He served his term of four years, and
was renominated and re-elected in 1878, and was again re-elected in
1882. He is held in high esteem by all political parties. He is a Mason, has been secretary of the lodge for several years, and is a gentleman in every sense.

James married Caroline Stealey on 28 Feb 1854. Caroline was born about 1828; died after 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gunsmith

. . . Joseph Van Bibber, was born in Greenbriar county, Virginia, in 1797 and was but three years old when brought by his parents to Callaway county, Missouri, and was, therefore, reared in this state, recei ved a common education and was a gunsmith by trade and employed by the United States government at Liberty, Missouri, when there was an Indian agency at that point. He married in St. Charles county, Missouri, Susan Boone, a daughter of Nathan and Olive (Van Bibber) Boone.
. . . After his marriage Joseph Van Bibber lived at Liberty until 1832, when he went to Arkansas and settled in Randolph county, in the wilderness, and was one of the first settlers in that county, and was one of the
surveyors who laid out the tow n of Pocahontas, the county-seat of that county, and there he died at the age of forty-two years, and his wife died a few years previously. They were the parents of four children who lived to
grow up, namely: Letitia, James D., Sarah and Emulus C.

Joseph married Susan Boone on 18 Mar 1827 in St Charles, Missouri. Susan (daughter of Nathan Boone and Olive Van Bibber) was born on 8 Mar 1806 in Randolph Co, Arkansas; died before 1843. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Military Service: BET. 1785 - 1788 Revolutionary War
Emigration: 1803 Kentucky to Missouri
Event: Settled 1818 Callaway County, Missouri
Event: Pension 20 MAY 1833 Applied for Revolutionary War pension

Sources:
Title: Newsletter
Text: Van BIbber Pioneers E-Newsletters, Volume 1, June 1997.
(August 29, 2001)

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Vol 2 No. 7
In our "Reminiscences, No. 1," we spoke of Peter Van Bibber, as one of the first half dozen settlers in Lawrence County, and who built a cabin in 1798, below Union Landing. The next year, 1799, James and Jacob Van Bibber, brothers of Peter, settled and built cabins just below the mouth of Ice Creek. The Van Bibbers were from the Kanawha.
Jacob afterwards settled and lived for many years on Little Sandy; and we suppose died there.

During the Indian wars, while the Van Bibber family was living on Kanawha, James and Jacob, then small boys, went out to hunt their horse, in the "range." A bell had been put on the horse, but as it appears two Indians had taken the bell off, and used it as a decoy; they jingled and the boys followed and finally they sprung upon the boys. One of them seized Jacob, but James, the older, darted from the other Indian, and ran so fast that he escaped. Jacob was taken to the Indian towns as a prisoner. Some years afterwards the Indians were hunting on Raccoon, within the present limits of Gallia County, and had young Van Bibber along. At one time they sent him out for their horses and becoming lost he wandered to the bank of the Raccoon, which he knew would lead him to the Ohio, when he conceived the idea of returning home. He came to the Ohio, and a boat soon appeared, coming down. Those it were afraid of his being an Indian decoy, but
finally, after his telling who he was, etc., they landed their women on the Virginia side and went over for him. Once on the Virginia shore he soon made his way to his home on Kanawha. Some years afterward, the young Van Bibbers settled in Lawrence County, as before mentioned.

There was a rumor that the Indians in years before had buried treasure at the Rock. To get whisky the Indian favored this rumor. For a glass he would tell them where to look, but it would always happen that they did not look just at the right place, but for another glass he would tell them the exact spot and so on. On one occasion while hunting for the treasure they found an Indian's bones, two thick bars of copper and a shell drinking cup under a rock near where Z. Hall now lives; at another time they found another Indian's bones under a rock near the same place. At last the Indian told them to go higher up and they would find a tree with certain marks on it, and there they would find the sought for riches. And sure enough they did find a tree, a buckeye with the marks the Indians had made on it some years before; this tree stood at the foot of the hill just above where the rolling mill now stands. For this the Indian got a double drink; but no treasure was yet to be found. The Indian then thinking that he had got about all the whisky he could, was all at once among the missing.

After leaving below, the Indian, as it appears, went up to the cabins of the Van Bibbers, below Ice Creek. He told the Van Bibbers that he was going to Kanawha, and they replied they used to live there. The Indian said he had been there before. "I tell you," said he, "so you see Indian no lie. Indian was there with another Indian, and two
little boys came hunt horse. We took bell off horse and lied with it to boys and when we got 'em 'bout right we jump at 'em, but my boy flew like bird and me no catch him." "Why, law me," exclaimed old lady Van Bibber, "that was you, James." The Indian seeing that he had exposed himself kept silence, and began to look for the door. James
Van Bibber laughed, and told him that it was peace and that he would not hurt him. The Indian, however, was ill at ease, and would not utter a syllable. They coaxed him to stay all night, but long before daylight, he got up and went out, the last seen of him.

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This seems to be a similar story to what has been told before, but maybe a little variation.

Lori Hogan
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-The stone house of James Van Bibber: James Van Bibber was a brother to Nathan's wife Olive. The house, recently purchased by Lindenwood University, was built in the early 1800's and is located about one-half mile west of the Boone Home. The house is accessible to look at and to take outside photograph, but access to the inside is not currently allowed.
http://www.boonesociety.org/historical_links/Missouri_Boone_Sites.htm

James married Jane Irvine on 13 Apr 1796 in Kanawha Co, Virginia. Jane was born in 1775 in Halifax Co, Virginia; died after 1840. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1816, Callaway Co, Missouri

Notes:

Complete list of their children:
1. Delinda m James Craig
2. Jemima m Henry Zumwalt
3. Susan m Joseph Van Bibber
4. Nancy
5. Olive m Phil Anthony
6. Benjamin m Mary Stallard
7. John Coburn m Molly Wardlow
8. Levica m William Cawlfield
9. Sarah m Winfield Wright
10. Mahalia m Robert C. Printy
11. Mela
12. James (b Jul 1800) m Polly Allen
13. Melcina m James Howard and Franklin T. Frazier
14. Mary (b 22 Jan 1822; d 13 jun 1915 - Ashgrove, Green Co, KY; m Alfred Hosman on 23 Apr 1841.

children were born in what is today Kentucky(?)
Son of Daniel Boone, Nathan looked after Daniel in his golden years. He married Olive Van Bibber as they joined Daniel in opening up Missouri after Kentucky had "become too crowed." Nathan and Olive settled in the St. Charles, MO area until after the death of Daniel.
After posting bond for a local politician who skipped town, Nathan joined the army based on fianancial need. Nathan was posted in Iowa, Kansas and the New Indian Territory, later called Oklahoma. He moved his family to the Ashgrove, Missouri ea just outside Springfield, Missouri to be closer to his post.

Residence:
Joseph Evans (a Lawyer)& Col Nathan Boone (youngest son of Daniel Boone) surveyed and sectionalized Callaway Co MO.

(Joseph Evans was son of Jesse Evans and Elizabeth Breckenridge, dau of Geo Breckenridge & AnnDoak)

Nathan married Olive Van Bibber on 26 Sep 1799 in Litty Sandy, Greenbriar Co, Kentucky. Olive (daughter of Peter Van Bibber, II and Margery Bounds) was born on 13 Jan 1783 in Kanawha Co, Virginia; died on 12 Nov 1858 in Ashgrove, Greene Co, Missouri; was buried in Nathan Boone Fam Cem, Ashgrove, Greene Co, Missouri. [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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after death of his brother Isaac, 1774, he adoped and raised one or more of Isaac's children.

March 22 1786 Greenbrier County Court Records Vol 1780-1786 P 463. Peter VanBibber appointed Guardian. They did move to southwest Va. in 1786. [NOTE: John VanBibber being appointed Lt of the County Militia May 11 1786 in Russell County is how I found them.]

Peter married Margery Bounds in 1756 in Lunenburg Co, Virginia. Margery (daughter of James Bounds and Ann (Dykes) Dicks) was born in 1740 in Maryland; died in 1844 in Charles Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Blazing The Way West: Daniel Boone & Davy Crockett
http://www.letsfindout.com/subjects/america/frntrmen.html

Boone, born Nov. 2, 1734, in Pennsylvania, opened up Kentucky for settlement between 1767 and 1784. He founded towns, served in the legislature, and became the most famous hunter and explorer of his time. As new settlers moved into the land he had opened, Boone moved further west and finally died in Missouri on Sept. 26, 1820.

Encarta:
Boone, Daniel (1734-1820), American pioneer, who played a major part in the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. Boone was born near Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1753 his family settled in a primitive settlement in what is now North Carolina, where Boone became a skillful hunter and trapper.

Boone set out to explore the wilderness around the Kentucky River, making the first of many trips into the region in 1767. Between 1769 and 1771, he explored eastern Kentucky, following a trail through the Cumberland Gap. In 1775, having been engaged by a Carolina trading company to establish a road by which settlers could reach Kentucky, he built a fort on the site of Boonesborough. The road established by Boone was later called the Wilderness Road. The settlement at Boonesborough was eventually established as a permanent village.

Daniel married Rebecca Ann Bryan on 14 Aug 1756 in Rowan Co, North Carolina. Rebecca (daughter of Joseph Bryan, Sr and Hester Hamdon (or Hampton)) was born on 9 Jan 1739 in Winchester, Frederick Co, Virginia; died on 18 Mar 1813 in Defiance, St.Charles Co, Missouri; was buried in Old Bryan Farm Cem, Marthasville, Warren Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Wikipedia:
She was born near Winchester, Virginia. Her father was Joseph Bryan, Sr. but there is no clear documentation as to her birth mother. Some[who?] say her mother, Hester Hampton, died in childbirth, and that Alice (or Aylee) Linville, Bryan's second wife, raised her.

Early American Pioneer. She is best remembered as the wife of famed American pioneer and frontiersman Daniel Boone. While no actual portrait of her exists when she was living, people who knew her said that when she met her future husband, she was nearly his height and very attractive with black hair and dark eyes. Born Rebecca Ann Bryan, at the age of 10 she moved with her Quaker grandparents, Morgan and Martha Bryan, to the Yadkin River Valley in the backwoods of North Carolina where she met and courted Daniel Boone in 1753 and married him three years later at the age of 17. This union would product ten children. Additionally, she took in her new husband's two young orphan nephews, who lived with them in North Carolina until the family left for Kentucky in 1773. Without any formal education, she was reputed to be an experienced community midwife, the family doctor, leather tanner, sharpshooter, and linen-maker, resourceful and independent in the isolated wilderness areas that she and her large, combined family often found themselves. In the autumn of 1773, she came through the Cumberland Gap with her family and fifty others under the leadership of William Russell, though they were turned back by the violent resistance by Native Americans to British colonization west of the Allegheny Mountains. In 1775 her husband brought the family to the Kentucky River where, on behalf of the Transylvania Company, he and Richard Henderson laid out Fort Boonesborough. In May 1778 she left Kentucky under a cloud of rumors that her husband, who had been capture by the Chilicothe Shawnee Native American tribe, had turned Tory. She returned to her parents' settlement in North Carolina with five of her children, leaving behind her daughter Jemima who by then had married. In June 1778 her husband escaped his captors and returned to his family in North Carolina and finally convinced her to leave again for Kentucky, this time with nearly 100 of their relatives. They departed in September 1779, the largest emigration to date to travel through the Cumberland Gap. By late October 1779, they reached Fort Boonesborough but conditions were so bad that they left on Christmas Day, during what Kentuckians later called the "Hard Winter," to found a new settlement, Boone's Station, with 15 to 20 families on Boone's Creek about six miles northwest (near what is now Athens, Kentucky). By the following spring, she and her husband moved to a cabin several miles southwest on Marble Creek. In 1781 she lived in a double cabin with five of her children still living at home, the six children of her widowed uncle James Bryan, as well as her daughter Susannah with her husband, and with 2 to 3 children of their own, a household of almost 20 people. In 1783 she and her family moved where for the next few years she assisted her husband in creating a landing site at the mouth of Limestone Creek for flatboats coming down the Ohio River from Fort Pitt in Pennsylvania. They lived in a cabin built out of an old boat (on what is now Front Street in Maysville, Kentucky) and she ran the tavern kitchen and oversaw the seven slaves they owned. In 1787 he husband was elected to the Virginia legislature as Bourbon County's representative, and she moved with him to Richmond, Virginia and their youngest child, leaving the tavern in the hands of their daughter Rebecca and husband Philip Goe. In 1788 they moved to Point Pleasant (now in West Virginia) in the Kanawha Valley, settling on the south side of the river almost opposite the mouth of Campbell's Creek. In 1799 they followed their youngest son Nathan to Spain's Alta Louisiana (Upper Louisiana, now Missouri, about 45 miles west/northwest of Saint Louis) in the Femme Osage Valley. She died there after a brief illness at the age of 74 in the home of her daughter Jemima Boone Callaway and was interred at the nearby Old Bryan Family Cemetery, on the bank of Tuque Creek near Marthasville, Missouri. In 1845 her remains, along with her husband's (reportedly) were disinterred and reburied in Frankfort, Kentucky. (bio by: William Bjornstad)
findagrave

Died:
After a brief illness, Rebecca Boone died at the age of 74 on March 18, 1813, at her daughter Jemima Boone Callaway's home near the village of Charette (near present-day Marthasville, Missouri). She was buried at the Bryan family cemetery nearby overlooking the Missouri River. She and her husband's remains were reinterred and buried again in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1845.
Wikipedia