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Peter Van Bibber
b.5 Aug 1757
Facts and Events
Biography of Peter Van Bibber
"Peter Van Bibber was born on August 5, 1757, in Lunenburg, Virginia, his father, Isaac, was 33 and his mother, Sarah, was 27. He married his first cousin, Eleanor Van Bibber, on June 29, 1785, in Virginia. He died on May 13, 1816, in Claiborne, Tennessee, at the age of 58.[1]
- In 1786 Peter VAN BEBBER went into court and declared himself the guardian of his younger brothers and sisters: Nancy, John, James, Matthew, and Isaac.
- By this time older sister, Martha, had already married to George YOAKUM. Almost immediately after Peter declared himself guardian he removed to lower Southwest Virginia to about the present day Dryden and with him George YOAKUM.
- Peter had recently wed his first cousin Eleanor VAN BIBBER and George and Patty (Martha) had been wed long enough by this time to have about five or six children.
- Peter brought along with him his younger siblings except Isaac and perhaps Matthew. It is not known at present what happened to Matthew. I believe Isaac stayed with his mother and step father.
- In 1796 the YOAKUM and VAN BEBBER families moved further down the Powell Valley where they lived to the lower part of Powell Valley that fell in the new state of Tennessee when it was formed in June 1796. At this time it is very apparent that upon establishing themselves upon their new farms that Sarah DAVIS/VAN BIBBER/GRIFFEY and her husband, William, joined the family.
- They had been living in the GREENBRIER County area of Virginia. Young Isaac had been well attached to the BOONE family by this time and had worked some at the BOONE trading post. I believe it was at this parting of time or maybe some time earlier that young Isaac decided not to go to Tennessee with the rest of the family but to stay with Daniel BOONE's family. This is the best I have been able to construct with the available data, but I don't believe he was extremely young when he went to live with the BOONE family."[2]
Sources
↑ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1700s-Current [1]
↑ By Steve Smith [2]
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri
References
- ↑ Find A Grave.
- ↑ GEORGE YOAKUM & ISAAC VANBEBBER, Early Settlers of Claiborne County, Tennessee.
https://joepayne.org/yoakvan.htm
As you will see from the following there are different opinions on the formations of YOAKUM's FORT, first in Va and latter in the Powell Valley section of what is now Claiborne Co., Tn.
Written by FRANKLIN YOAKUM (born 1819), son of GEORGE YOAKUM and Mary Ann Maddy, and given to him by his father GEORGE YOAKUM I - now the property of CHARLES H. YOAKUM, of Los Angeles, Calif.
The YOAKUMs emigrated to America with the first Dutch settlers on the Island of Manhattan, the present site of New York City. They were of Welsh extraction. In the Welsh language the original name was so uncouth and knotty that our fathers of three or four hundred years ago agreed to have it changed into "IUGUM", or "JAGUM", which is the Latin term for "YOKE". A short time under the influence of their English neighbors, it was again changed into "YOCUM" and finally "YOAKUM." The given names of the YOAKUMs in the City of New York are not known, but Valentine, a son of one of them, moved to South Potomac on Potomac on Peach Creek. After he married, VALENTINE YOAKUM (1721), youngest of seven sons, moved to Muddy Creek, Greenbrier County, Va., and settled YOAKUM's STATION (1771), now Powell Valley, Claiborne Co. Tennessee. He was there tomahawked by a Shawnee Indian. With him were his wife and children - all killed but young George, who was swift of foot and of great strength, killing three Indians with a frying pan handle, which he jerked from one as he passed through. He was afterwards in the Battle of Point Pleasant. At 25 years of age he married the daughter of ISAAC VAN BIBBER, who fell in that battle. GEORGE YOAKUM I. continued to live at Muddy Creek, Va., until he became father of three sons, the youngest of whom was George II, when they moved to Powell's Valley.
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