Daniel Hardin "Dan" Vertrees, son of John Vertrees & his 1st wife Rebecca Burris Vertrees
Dan was killed by Indians Aug 1792
at Indian Run, Bullitt Co,KY
******************
Captain John Vertrees had eight children, namely; Isaac, Daniel, Joseph, John, Jacob, Charles, Mary and Sarah.
Isaac Miles Vertrees, born in 1746 in that part of Virginia which is now West Virginia, emigrated to Kentucky with his father in 1779. Here all record of Isaac Vertrees ends. It is possible that he was the Vertrees (Van Tress) who fell at the battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky in 1782 but of this there is no positive confirmation.
The fate of Isaac's brother, Daniel Hardin Vertrees, is known. He was killed by Indians and lies in the lost burying-ground of the Vertrees in the Severns Valley. Haycraft speaks thus of him and of the encounter in which he fell:
"Dan Vertrees was a stalwart young man of daring. He, with the late Colonel Nicholas Miller and others, was pursuing a band of Indians; Miller, then young, was tall, slenderly built, as active as a cat and fleet as a hind, and as brave as Julius Caesar. This company, coming upon the Indians suddenly, a desperate fight ensued. Vertrees was killed at the first fire. A stout warrior seized a white man, wrestled his gun from him and was about to cleave his head with an axe. Miller at that moment, with a celerity of action which few men could equal, and with a power that few possessed — in the language of John Glenn, ‘snatched the white man from the Indian as he would a chicken from a hawk,' and, with an equally rapid motion, killed the Indian. This turned the tide, and the remaining Indians fled, leaving several dead on the ground."
Dan Vertrees's grandson, Judge William D Vertrees, served in the Mexican War and became county judge of Hardin county, Kentucky. He married Eliza Ann Haynes, a daughter of Dr John Haynes of Virginia, who was a graduate of Harvard Medical School. Her mother was Martha Ann Campbell of Massachusetts. Dr Haynes and Miss Campbell were married in Virginia and came across the mountains to Kentucky and settled at Big Spring. Eliza Haynes was born at Big Spring, October 3, 1824. On November 3, 1854, she married William D Vertrees. She was the first graduate of Bethlehem Academy in Kentucky. A skilled musician, she engaged in music teaching.
"Miss Eliza," as she was known to all of the children and most of the adults, became one of the outstanding women of Elizabethtown. Haycraft says of her:
"She was a Christian woman who was interested in everything for the good of the town and its people. Because of her unusual personal and mental qualities she was one of the town's most beloved characters."
Judge William D Vertrees and "Miss Eliza" had four children, namely, Haynes, Martha, Charles and Catherine Vertrees.
Mrs Vertrees survived her husband and three of the children; she died at the home of her daughter, Catherine V Young, at Oakmont, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1911.
Pike County Republican (newspaper)
Pittsfield, Illinois
Pike County IL History
Chapter 129
Jess M Thompson
1935
***********************************************
*** Eliza Vertrees home ...
http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/88001809.pdf
& also ...
1870 Elizabethtown, Hardin Co,KY - Vertrees, county judge W D 52, keeping house Eliza 46 KY, Mattie 14 KY, J Haynes 12 KY, Charles 8 KY & daughter Catharine 4 KY & domestic Angeline 35 KY
1880 Elizabethtown, Hardin Co,KY - Vertrees, widowed music teacher Eliza 53, daughter Mattie 23 KY, son Charlie 19 KY & daughter Catharine 14 KY
...
Mrs Eliza Vertrees was the widow of Judge William Vertrees, A very small woman, but a woman of wonderful mentality, she was the sister of the late J C Poston, of Louisville.
She was renowned as a musician, as an art critic and also a women of fine literary attainments. Mrs Vertrees was one of the founders of the Christian church in Elizabethtown, and she was one of the pillars of that church during her lifetime.
She had two daughters, Miss Mattie and Miss Katherine. Miss Mattie is long since deceased. Miss Katherine married Dr Young, an Episcopal ministers and lives in the East. Her only son, Haynes Vertrees, one of the brightest young men ever reared in Elizabethtown, died in his youth.
The Vertrees home was always a delightful place for people to meet socially and for music. Her two daughters were equally as accomplished in music as their distinguished mother.
Bits and Pieces (Hardin Co,KY)
Vol XXVVIII, No 1
ISSN 1536-1667
WINTER 2014
Love, Marriage and Children
Women That Shaped Family and Community
by Susan McCrobie
Some Noted Elizabethtown Women
The Elizabethtown News
21 December 21, 1934
Dan was killed by Indians Aug 1792
at Indian Run, Bullitt Co,KY
******************
Captain John Vertrees had eight children, namely; Isaac, Daniel, Joseph, John, Jacob, Charles, Mary and Sarah.
Isaac Miles Vertrees, born in 1746 in that part of Virginia which is now West Virginia, emigrated to Kentucky with his father in 1779. Here all record of Isaac Vertrees ends. It is possible that he was the Vertrees (Van Tress) who fell at the battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky in 1782 but of this there is no positive confirmation.
The fate of Isaac's brother, Daniel Hardin Vertrees, is known. He was killed by Indians and lies in the lost burying-ground of the Vertrees in the Severns Valley. Haycraft speaks thus of him and of the encounter in which he fell:
"Dan Vertrees was a stalwart young man of daring. He, with the late Colonel Nicholas Miller and others, was pursuing a band of Indians; Miller, then young, was tall, slenderly built, as active as a cat and fleet as a hind, and as brave as Julius Caesar. This company, coming upon the Indians suddenly, a desperate fight ensued. Vertrees was killed at the first fire. A stout warrior seized a white man, wrestled his gun from him and was about to cleave his head with an axe. Miller at that moment, with a celerity of action which few men could equal, and with a power that few possessed — in the language of John Glenn, ‘snatched the white man from the Indian as he would a chicken from a hawk,' and, with an equally rapid motion, killed the Indian. This turned the tide, and the remaining Indians fled, leaving several dead on the ground."
Dan Vertrees's grandson, Judge William D Vertrees, served in the Mexican War and became county judge of Hardin county, Kentucky. He married Eliza Ann Haynes, a daughter of Dr John Haynes of Virginia, who was a graduate of Harvard Medical School. Her mother was Martha Ann Campbell of Massachusetts. Dr Haynes and Miss Campbell were married in Virginia and came across the mountains to Kentucky and settled at Big Spring. Eliza Haynes was born at Big Spring, October 3, 1824. On November 3, 1854, she married William D Vertrees. She was the first graduate of Bethlehem Academy in Kentucky. A skilled musician, she engaged in music teaching.
"Miss Eliza," as she was known to all of the children and most of the adults, became one of the outstanding women of Elizabethtown. Haycraft says of her:
"She was a Christian woman who was interested in everything for the good of the town and its people. Because of her unusual personal and mental qualities she was one of the town's most beloved characters."
Judge William D Vertrees and "Miss Eliza" had four children, namely, Haynes, Martha, Charles and Catherine Vertrees.
Mrs Vertrees survived her husband and three of the children; she died at the home of her daughter, Catherine V Young, at Oakmont, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1911.
Pike County Republican (newspaper)
Pittsfield, Illinois
Pike County IL History
Chapter 129
Jess M Thompson
1935
***********************************************
*** Eliza Vertrees home ...
http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/88001809.pdf
& also ...
1870 Elizabethtown, Hardin Co,KY - Vertrees, county judge W D 52, keeping house Eliza 46 KY, Mattie 14 KY, J Haynes 12 KY, Charles 8 KY & daughter Catharine 4 KY & domestic Angeline 35 KY
1880 Elizabethtown, Hardin Co,KY - Vertrees, widowed music teacher Eliza 53, daughter Mattie 23 KY, son Charlie 19 KY & daughter Catharine 14 KY
...
Mrs Eliza Vertrees was the widow of Judge William Vertrees, A very small woman, but a woman of wonderful mentality, she was the sister of the late J C Poston, of Louisville.
She was renowned as a musician, as an art critic and also a women of fine literary attainments. Mrs Vertrees was one of the founders of the Christian church in Elizabethtown, and she was one of the pillars of that church during her lifetime.
She had two daughters, Miss Mattie and Miss Katherine. Miss Mattie is long since deceased. Miss Katherine married Dr Young, an Episcopal ministers and lives in the East. Her only son, Haynes Vertrees, one of the brightest young men ever reared in Elizabethtown, died in his youth.
The Vertrees home was always a delightful place for people to meet socially and for music. Her two daughters were equally as accomplished in music as their distinguished mother.
Bits and Pieces (Hardin Co,KY)
Vol XXVVIII, No 1
ISSN 1536-1667
WINTER 2014
Love, Marriage and Children
Women That Shaped Family and Community
by Susan McCrobie
Some Noted Elizabethtown Women
The Elizabethtown News
21 December 21, 1934
Daniel Hardin "Dan" Vertrees, son of John Vertrees & his 1st wife Rebecca Burris Vertrees
Dan was killed by Indians Aug 1792
at Indian Run, Bullitt Co,KY
******************
Captain John Vertrees had eight children, namely; Isaac, Daniel, Joseph, John, Jacob, Charles, Mary and Sarah.
Isaac Miles Vertrees, born in 1746 in that part of Virginia which is now West Virginia, emigrated to Kentucky with his father in 1779. Here all record of Isaac Vertrees ends. It is possible that he was the Vertrees (Van Tress) who fell at the battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky in 1782 but of this there is no positive confirmation.
The fate of Isaac's brother, Daniel Hardin Vertrees, is known. He was killed by Indians and lies in the lost burying-ground of the Vertrees in the Severns Valley. Haycraft speaks thus of him and of the encounter in which he fell:
"Dan Vertrees was a stalwart young man of daring. He, with the late Colonel Nicholas Miller and others, was pursuing a band of Indians; Miller, then young, was tall, slenderly built, as active as a cat and fleet as a hind, and as brave as Julius Caesar. This company, coming upon the Indians suddenly, a desperate fight ensued. Vertrees was killed at the first fire. A stout warrior seized a white man, wrestled his gun from him and was about to cleave his head with an axe. Miller at that moment, with a celerity of action which few men could equal, and with a power that few possessed — in the language of John Glenn, ‘snatched the white man from the Indian as he would a chicken from a hawk,' and, with an equally rapid motion, killed the Indian. This turned the tide, and the remaining Indians fled, leaving several dead on the ground."
Dan Vertrees's grandson, Judge William D Vertrees, served in the Mexican War and became county judge of Hardin county, Kentucky. He married Eliza Ann Haynes, a daughter of Dr John Haynes of Virginia, who was a graduate of Harvard Medical School. Her mother was Martha Ann Campbell of Massachusetts. Dr Haynes and Miss Campbell were married in Virginia and came across the mountains to Kentucky and settled at Big Spring. Eliza Haynes was born at Big Spring, October 3, 1824. On November 3, 1854, she married William D Vertrees. She was the first graduate of Bethlehem Academy in Kentucky. A skilled musician, she engaged in music teaching.
"Miss Eliza," as she was known to all of the children and most of the adults, became one of the outstanding women of Elizabethtown. Haycraft says of her:
"She was a Christian woman who was interested in everything for the good of the town and its people. Because of her unusual personal and mental qualities she was one of the town's most beloved characters."
Judge William D Vertrees and "Miss Eliza" had four children, namely, Haynes, Martha, Charles and Catherine Vertrees.
Mrs Vertrees survived her husband and three of the children; she died at the home of her daughter, Catherine V Young, at Oakmont, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1911.
Pike County Republican (newspaper)
Pittsfield, Illinois
Pike County IL History
Chapter 129
Jess M Thompson
1935
***********************************************
*** Eliza Vertrees home ...
http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/88001809.pdf
& also ...
1870 Elizabethtown, Hardin Co,KY - Vertrees, county judge W D 52, keeping house Eliza 46 KY, Mattie 14 KY, J Haynes 12 KY, Charles 8 KY & daughter Catharine 4 KY & domestic Angeline 35 KY
1880 Elizabethtown, Hardin Co,KY - Vertrees, widowed music teacher Eliza 53, daughter Mattie 23 KY, son Charlie 19 KY & daughter Catharine 14 KY
...
Mrs Eliza Vertrees was the widow of Judge William Vertrees, A very small woman, but a woman of wonderful mentality, she was the sister of the late J C Poston, of Louisville.
She was renowned as a musician, as an art critic and also a women of fine literary attainments. Mrs Vertrees was one of the founders of the Christian church in Elizabethtown, and she was one of the pillars of that church during her lifetime.
She had two daughters, Miss Mattie and Miss Katherine. Miss Mattie is long since deceased. Miss Katherine married Dr Young, an Episcopal ministers and lives in the East. Her only son, Haynes Vertrees, one of the brightest young men ever reared in Elizabethtown, died in his youth.
The Vertrees home was always a delightful place for people to meet socially and for music. Her two daughters were equally as accomplished in music as their distinguished mother.
Bits and Pieces (Hardin Co,KY)
Vol XXVVIII, No 1
ISSN 1536-1667
WINTER 2014
Love, Marriage and Children
Women That Shaped Family and Community
by Susan McCrobie
Some Noted Elizabethtown Women
The Elizabethtown News
21 December 21, 1934
Dan was killed by Indians Aug 1792
at Indian Run, Bullitt Co,KY
******************
Captain John Vertrees had eight children, namely; Isaac, Daniel, Joseph, John, Jacob, Charles, Mary and Sarah.
Isaac Miles Vertrees, born in 1746 in that part of Virginia which is now West Virginia, emigrated to Kentucky with his father in 1779. Here all record of Isaac Vertrees ends. It is possible that he was the Vertrees (Van Tress) who fell at the battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky in 1782 but of this there is no positive confirmation.
The fate of Isaac's brother, Daniel Hardin Vertrees, is known. He was killed by Indians and lies in the lost burying-ground of the Vertrees in the Severns Valley. Haycraft speaks thus of him and of the encounter in which he fell:
"Dan Vertrees was a stalwart young man of daring. He, with the late Colonel Nicholas Miller and others, was pursuing a band of Indians; Miller, then young, was tall, slenderly built, as active as a cat and fleet as a hind, and as brave as Julius Caesar. This company, coming upon the Indians suddenly, a desperate fight ensued. Vertrees was killed at the first fire. A stout warrior seized a white man, wrestled his gun from him and was about to cleave his head with an axe. Miller at that moment, with a celerity of action which few men could equal, and with a power that few possessed — in the language of John Glenn, ‘snatched the white man from the Indian as he would a chicken from a hawk,' and, with an equally rapid motion, killed the Indian. This turned the tide, and the remaining Indians fled, leaving several dead on the ground."
Dan Vertrees's grandson, Judge William D Vertrees, served in the Mexican War and became county judge of Hardin county, Kentucky. He married Eliza Ann Haynes, a daughter of Dr John Haynes of Virginia, who was a graduate of Harvard Medical School. Her mother was Martha Ann Campbell of Massachusetts. Dr Haynes and Miss Campbell were married in Virginia and came across the mountains to Kentucky and settled at Big Spring. Eliza Haynes was born at Big Spring, October 3, 1824. On November 3, 1854, she married William D Vertrees. She was the first graduate of Bethlehem Academy in Kentucky. A skilled musician, she engaged in music teaching.
"Miss Eliza," as she was known to all of the children and most of the adults, became one of the outstanding women of Elizabethtown. Haycraft says of her:
"She was a Christian woman who was interested in everything for the good of the town and its people. Because of her unusual personal and mental qualities she was one of the town's most beloved characters."
Judge William D Vertrees and "Miss Eliza" had four children, namely, Haynes, Martha, Charles and Catherine Vertrees.
Mrs Vertrees survived her husband and three of the children; she died at the home of her daughter, Catherine V Young, at Oakmont, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1911.
Pike County Republican (newspaper)
Pittsfield, Illinois
Pike County IL History
Chapter 129
Jess M Thompson
1935
***********************************************
*** Eliza Vertrees home ...
http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/88001809.pdf
& also ...
1870 Elizabethtown, Hardin Co,KY - Vertrees, county judge W D 52, keeping house Eliza 46 KY, Mattie 14 KY, J Haynes 12 KY, Charles 8 KY & daughter Catharine 4 KY & domestic Angeline 35 KY
1880 Elizabethtown, Hardin Co,KY - Vertrees, widowed music teacher Eliza 53, daughter Mattie 23 KY, son Charlie 19 KY & daughter Catharine 14 KY
...
Mrs Eliza Vertrees was the widow of Judge William Vertrees, A very small woman, but a woman of wonderful mentality, she was the sister of the late J C Poston, of Louisville.
She was renowned as a musician, as an art critic and also a women of fine literary attainments. Mrs Vertrees was one of the founders of the Christian church in Elizabethtown, and she was one of the pillars of that church during her lifetime.
She had two daughters, Miss Mattie and Miss Katherine. Miss Mattie is long since deceased. Miss Katherine married Dr Young, an Episcopal ministers and lives in the East. Her only son, Haynes Vertrees, one of the brightest young men ever reared in Elizabethtown, died in his youth.
The Vertrees home was always a delightful place for people to meet socially and for music. Her two daughters were equally as accomplished in music as their distinguished mother.
Bits and Pieces (Hardin Co,KY)
Vol XXVVIII, No 1
ISSN 1536-1667
WINTER 2014
Love, Marriage and Children
Women That Shaped Family and Community
by Susan McCrobie
Some Noted Elizabethtown Women
The Elizabethtown News
21 December 21, 1934
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