VARDEMAN-McPIKE FAMILY CEMETERY, Ralls County, Missouri In my research over many years of Ralls and northeast Missouri I have never heard of Ely Lick in Ralls county. There was a Elk Lick just over the Ralls county line in Pike County MO. (There is a Pike county IL that also bounders Ralls) . There was a spring, still, resort spa/hotel and maybe a small village, but have not heard of a cemetery. Ralls was formed from Pike in 1821. I'm sending you my records of the Vandeman-McPike cemetery in Ralls county. I sent this to Eric James and thought you received a copy, isn't this your Rev. Jeremiah Vardemen? He has listed among the organizing group of the Bethel Baptist church in 1840, which very close to his home where he died in 1842. Also listed are some of his children and named three slaves. I have pages copied from, I think, "History of the Salt River Baptist Association" 1909 that says Jeremiah below took a treatment a the Sulphur Spring at Ely Lick before his death. There is also a picture in the book of him and gives a lot of detail about him, his family and travels. Kathy Threlkeld and Dorothy Burditt has more information on the family and Bethel Church. They were to copy you. The Vardeman house was said to have been large, but was destroyed years ago. VARDEMAN-McPIKE FAMILY CEMETERY: Township 55-Range 5-Section 7; Ralls County Missouri Culbertson; Jeremiah Vardeman, [Feb. 3, 1833] d. Oct 28, 1853 age 29 yr., 8 mo., 25 da., s/o J. & M. F [James Duncan & Mary F. (Vardeman) Culbertson] Culbertson; Mary F., [b. Aug. 29, 1806] d. Jan. 2, 1837 age 30 yr., 4 mo., 4 mo., w/o James [James Duncan Culbertson] Harrison; Abie P., [also known as Abraham] b. Oct. 21, 1869, d. July 28, 1871, [of congestion of the bowels, only child] s/o S. J. & Alice McPike [Stephen J.] Harrison; Alice, (McPike) b. March 9, 1850 [in Pike Co. MO.] , d. Dec. 27, 1870, d/o Abe & his first wife, Margaret H. (Morriss) McPike. [m. Dec. 10, 1868 Samuel J. Harrison) [1] Long; Rufus, b. July 2, 1844, d. Oct. 20, 1865, s/o F. H. Long [died at residence of Capt. A. McPike of Typhoid, s/o Foreman Long] McPike; Abraham, b. Sept. 24, 1824, d. Jan. 14, 1873[2] (A Monument 12 feet high and costing $850, was placed over the grave of Capt. Abraham McPike, six miles west of New London one day last week. It was manufactured in Louisiana and is said to be the finest monument in Northeast Missouri.” In February 10, 1876 “Ralls Co. Record”) McPike; Emily Jane, (Vardeman) b. June 20, 1830, d. Jan. 22, 1864, w/o Abraham, d/o Jeremiah Vardeman [& 3rd wife Lucy Bullock] Vardeman; Ann Maria, b. May 24, 1834, d. Jan. 6, 1836, d/o Jeremiah [& 3rd. wife Lucy Bullock] Vardeman; Caroline W. D., b. Aug 15, 1826, d. May 18, 1842, d/o Jeremiah [& 3rd. wife Lucy Bullock] Vardeman; Jeremiah[3], b. July 8, 1775, d. May 18, 1842[4] Vardeman; Jeremiah B., b. June 12, 1814, d. June 23, 1886 Vardeman; Lucy R., b. Feb. 13, 1802, d. Mar. 13, 1879 w/o Jeremiah [Lucy Bullock his 3rd. wife] Sources; “Cemetery Inscriptions from Ralls County Missouri” and “From The Ralls Co. Record, 1865-1912” by Mary Harris Davis, Prepared by Kay Detweller 1995; “A Pioneer Missourian” by Joshua Briggs 1939; Mervin W. Peirce notes; “Ralls County Missouri” by Goldena Howard 1980; “Portrait And Biographical record of Marion, Ralls, Pike Counties Missouri 1895 (1982 Revised Edition) [1] Samuel J. Harrison was the s/o William P. and Margaret (Morton) Harrison. Alice was the first of three marriages of Samuel J.; see “Portrait and Biographical Record of Marion, Ralls, Pike counties MO.” Pages 770-771 [2] He was also known as Abe and/or Captain. He was a Major in the sixty-ninth Regiment of MO. State Militia, which was formed in 1865 to preserve the peace in the area after the Civil War. The source of the title Capt is unknown yet. In the Goldena Howard’s History of Ralls Co. he has shown as a miller, whiskey maker, a large slave owner, and mule breeder. The book also shows him as a rejected voter for the 1867 election for harboring rebels and bushwhackers and declaring his property for the Southern Confederacy. In 1863 and 1864 he drove Mules by the hundreds to CA. for sale to the miners, see “A Pioneer Missourian” by Joshua Briggs (1939) [3] Jeremiah left KY in October 1830 and settled in Ralls near Salt River. He owned more two hundred acres before he died. See “History of the Salt River Association” 1909 [4] Jeremiah Vardeman was prominent Baptist preacher who was born 12 miles north of Fort Chiswell, Wythe Co, VA. He was the youngest son of twelve children of John Vardeman and grandson of John Vardeman sr., who was a Swedish immigrant to America early in the 18th century. Jeremiah first married in 1799 in KY, Elizabeth James, d/o Richard James. She died in 1818. There were eleven children from this first marriage. Jeremiah second married in 1821 to Elizabeth Bryan, who died in 1822 and they had one child by this marriage. He married the third time in 1823, Lucy Bullock, who was the daughter of Thomas Bullock of Woodford Co. Ky. There were four children in this third marriage; Thomas B., Caroline and Emily J. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. 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