!Civil Records Amsterdam 26 Aug 1710
!History of Ray County, Missouri (GS Call #977.819H2h) pages 583, 207, 214 Married Nancy Linville about Christmas 1815
The 1850 Federal Census for Ray County, Missouri
Vanderpool, Wynant 55 M Farmer 200 Tenn
Vanderpool, Nancy 46 F Ky
Vanderpool Milford 17 M Farmer Mo
Vanderpool Abraham 13 M Mo
Vanderpool, Bluford 19 M Farmer Mo
Vanderpool Amanda 10 F Mo
Vandrpool Austin 13 M Mo
Vanderpool Nancy E. 7 F Mo
Vanderpool, Thomas B. 6 M Mo
Vanderpool, Lanceford 4 M Mo
Vanderpool, Elizabeth 3 F Mo.
The marriage of Wynant, son of John, to Nancy Linville was the first reported marriage in the Buffalo Settlement in what would become part of Ray County. The histories have it that there was no minister as of yet in the area, and they had to travel quite a long way to the east to find a minister to perform the ceremony.
Lived in Wilmington Deleware
!John Vanderpool (Father) died at 109 years of age. History of Ray County, Missouri (GS Call No. 977.8 19H2h) Page 583 and 207
1815 First White settler in Ray Co. Missouri
Ellen also known as Elender
Mary living in Oregon in 1881.
James died at age 7 in the Missouri River
Information from "Life of David Crockett" autobiography
Information obtained from family group sheet submitted by Pauline V. Smith, Snowflake, Arizona. From Notable Southern Families, Volume 5, page 20l, book 873.