Maude B (Stewart) VanMeter (1884 - 1985)

Born 23 Sep 1884 in Pike, Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Harry Daniel VanMeter — married 25 Dec 1907 in Clifton in Mason Co., West Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died 19 Mar 1985 at age 100 in Clifton, Mason, West Virginia, United States

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Biography

Maud was born in 1884. She was the daughter of Henry Stewart and Deborah McDaniel. She had her son, Everett Raymond, out of wedlock. Family gossip suggests that his father, named as George Stewart on Raymond's birth certificate, is the George Stewart who married Maude's sister, Viola. There is no one who can prove or disprove this information. . . it's just the story passed down.

Maude married Harry Daniel VanMeter in 1907 in Mason County, West Virginia.^[1] Among their children are:

• Lucy, m. Fred Johnson^[2]
• Leonard, b. 19 Mar 1910; d. 7 Nov 1979
• Ralph, b. 27 Jun 1913; d. 04 Oct 1993
• Josephine, b. 15 Apr 1916; m. 1) David Knopp and 2) Ballard H. Justice; d. 26 May 1995
• Kathleen, b. 23 Jun 1919; m. Robert Vanmeter, son of Oliver and Clara Vanmeter; d. 20 Oct 2000
• William Donald., b. 04 Sep 1921; d. 22 Mar 2011^[3]

Maude was the midwife for the family. She delivered many nephews, nieces, and grandchildren--including my father. In my first recollection of her she was larger than life. She was blind and walked with a cane but she stood strong as an oak tree. She regained her sight later on but lost her ability to walk.

When she became too aged to care for herself, Aunt Josephine cared for her.

Maude married Harry Van Meter on 12/25/1907 in Mason Co. Wv. Raymond`s Stewart's father is unknown.

Sources

1. ↑ West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970
2. ↑ West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970
3. ↑ United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014

• Marriage License / Clerk's Certificate / Minister's Return Record, West Virginia, Mason County, Page 104. Click here to see it: [1].
• United States Census, 1900
• United States Census, 1920
• United States Census, 1930
• United States Census, 1940
• Listed as mother on her son Everett's West Virginia State Department of Health - Division of Vital Statistics - Charleston, Delayed Certificate of Birth, No. 3604. Click here to see it: [2].
• United States Social Security Death Index
• Find A Grave Memorial# 85702457. Click here to see it: [3].

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Dave McNally for starting this profile (Stewart-16632). Thanks to Saundra Stewart for starting this profile (Stewart-22882).

• Found in Mason Co. Wv. 1890 Census Under Henry Stewart.

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