Charles Vertrees

Birth: Feb. 25, 1797 Death: Apr. 12, 1850 Noble Township Wabash County Indiana, USA

Charles Vertrees, son of John Vertrees & his 2nd wife Elizabeth VanMeter Swan McNeil Vertrees. Elizabeth 1st married John Swan Jr 2nd married Thomas McNeil 3rd married (in Hardin Co,KY) 1795 John Vertrees

Charles 1st married Mildred "Milley aka Millie" Vernon Vertrees. 1 known daughter Frances

Charles 2nd married Jane aka Jincey Ballard Vertrees.

8 known children 1 Sarah married George M Myers 2 Warren married Isabella Matlock Vertrees (Warren was born Morgan Co,IN & died Lawrence Co,MO) 3 Charles B married Armantha Jane Brown Vertrees Hamlin 4 William B married Christina A Story Vertrees 5 Mary married Edward Bobbitt 6 Jane married Henry Jones 7 Caroline 8 John

1850--Vertrees, Jincey 49 NC, Charles 20 IN, William 17 IN, Mary 15 IN, Jane 13 IN & Caroline 10 IN & Kindle, Berthere 11 IN

1860--Vertrees, Jincey 58 NC, dau Caroline 19, son William 27 IN, dau in law Christina A 25 IN, g/dau Emma 4 IN & g/son Warren 2/12 IN

• ***************

Note: Charles's father, John Vertrees served under General George Rogers Clark during the Revolutionary War & was later a Kentucky judge

• ******************

In the old forting days of Kentucky, when that wilderness Indian-haunted land was first being settled by the followers of Daniel Boone, the elder Samuel Haycraft, ancestor of all the Pike county Vertrees, established a home in the beautiful Severns Valley in what is now Hardin county, Kentucky, near the site of present Elizabethtown.

Neighboring settlers in those old Indian days were the families of the elder Hinson Hobbs, the elder Jacob Van Meter and the elder John (Captain John) Vertrees.

Around these four pioneer families centered the thrilling history of the Severns Valley for a great many years, beginning in 1779. For common defense against the Indians, these four grand old pioneers, whose original land entries cornered near present Elizabethtown, on a hill above a mighty spring, built at the four corners a rude fortification known as Haycraft's Fort. Within this enclosure the four families, later joined by others, lived in the early years of the valley settlements.

&

Jacob Sneed Vertrees, who built the first house on the site of present Perry (known in early days as Booneville), was born in Elizabethtown, Hardin county, Kentucky, July 9, 1814. He was the fifth son and eighth child of John Vertrees, Jr. and Nancy Haycraft. His father was away in the second war with the British when he was born. Sixteen days after his birth, 3000 Americans at noted Lundy's Lane defeated the seasoned British troops whom the great Wellington had so often led to victory.

Jacob Sneed Vertrees was next in order of birth after the third John Vertrees (third in America) who fought against the famous Indian, Black Hawk, in the uprising of 1832.

These Pike county Vertreeses came of a warrior race that had engaged the red men in many a bloody encounter on the early American frontiers. Their kinsmen had reddened the soil of early Kentucky with their blood. Their uncle (their father's brother), Daniel H Vertrees, had fallen in battle with the Indians, and another of their father's brothers, Charles M Vertrees, was long in captivity among the Shawnees.

Their illustrious grandfather, Captain John Vertrees of the Revolution (later Judge John Vertrees of the early Kentucky courts), fought the Indians and the British in the old Virginia colony and later, in 1778, in the time of the Revolution, marched with George Rogers Clark through the western wilderness to attack the Illinois villages, a memorable campaign resulting in the capture by the Virginia "Long Knives" of Kaskaskia and old Vincennes.

Jacob Sneed Vertrees's maternal grandfather, the elder Samuel Haycraft, whose history has been related, was also a soldier of the Revolution. His descendant, Mrs Mary Louise (Shoemaker) Butterfield of Griggsville, possesses the official record of his Revolutionary service, obtained by her mother, Anna Vertrees Shoemaker (daughter of Jacob Sneed), in her lifetime.

Pike County Republican (newspaper) Pittsfield, Illinois Pike County IL History Chapter 137 Jess M Thompson 1935

By her third marriage Elizabeth Van Meter had Charles Vertrees, born Feb. 25, 1797, Hardin county, Ky. died April 12, 1850, Wabash county, Ind., married Mildred Vernon, daughter of Anthony and Fanny Quinn Vernon.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bobbistockton/van2.html