Catherine Vanderpool
1725 - 1806 (80 years)-
Name Catherine Vanderpool Born 30 Jun 1725 Albany, Albany, New York, USA 
Gender Female Find-A-Grave 54391203 Name Kitty Reference Number 43167 Died 1806 Conesville, Coshocton, Ohio, USA Buried Conesville, Coshocton, Ohio, USA - William Robinson Family Cemetery
Person ID I43167 Thompson-Milligan Last Modified 12 Apr 2018
Father Wynant Melgertse Vanderpool Relationship natural Mother Catharine Dehooges, b. 1686, New York, USA Relationship natural Family ID F14412 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Frederick Michael See, b. 1710, Schoharie, Schoharie, New York, USA , d. 16 Jul 1763, Greenbrier, West Virginia, USA (Age 53 years) Married 1744 New Jersey, USA Children 1. Michael See, b. 1750, Moorefield, Hardy, West Virginia, USA , d. 14 May 1792, Kanawha, West Virginia, USA (Age 42 years) [natural]2. William See, b. 15 Jul 1763, Hardy, Bedford, Virginia, USA [natural]3. John See, b. 10 Oct 1757, Greenbrier, Doddridge, West Virginia, USA , d. 2 Jan 1837, Decatur, Macon, Illinois, USA (Age 79 years) [natural]4. Lois See, b. 1756, Hardy, Bedford, Virginia, USA , d. 29 Aug 1836, Warren, Marion, Missouri, USA (Age 80 years) [natural]5. Elizabeth See, b. 26 Feb 1754, Hardy, West Virginia, USA , d. 1791, Adams, Ohio, USA (Age 36 years) [natural]6. Mary See, b. 28 Dec 1748, Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. 1823, Clear Creek, Warren, Ohio, USA (Age 74 years) [natural]7. Margaret Jane See, b. 1745, Buck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 11 Mar 1815, Franklin, Coshocton, Ohio, USA (Age 70 years) [natural]8. Sarah See, b. 1755, Augusta, Virginia, USA [natural]9. Catherine See, b. 26 Feb 1754, Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. 23 Apr 1827, Hardy, West Virginia, USA (Age 73 years) [natural]10. George M See, b. 1748, Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. 1847, Warren, Marion, Missouri, USA (Age 99 years) [natural]Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 Family ID F14334 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 30 Jun 1725 - Albany, Albany, New York, USA 
Married - 1744 - New Jersey, USA 
Died - 1806 - Conesville, Coshocton, Ohio, USA Buried - - Conesville, Coshocton, Ohio, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Moved with her daughter Margaret See Roach Robinson and family when Margaret's husband acquired 4000 acres of land in Franklin Township where the cemetery is located.
Catherine is one of many members of her family with phenomenal life experiences.
In 1763, violence between the Indians and Virginian settlers escalated in the Kanawha Valley. One encounter in Greenbrier County (now in southern West Virginia, but covering a much larger area at that time)took place on July 15, 1763. This became known as the Muddy Creek Massacre. Many women and children were rounded up by the Shawnee and marched to one of their villages in Ohio, one of several called "Chillicothe." Many of the Natives rode horses captured from the settlers, while their prisoners remained on foot. Along the way, Catherine asserted that one Native was riding a horse belonging to her, and she demanded that he let her ride it. Obviously annoyed, he declined to give her the horse. She snatched a sturdy stick off the ground and struck him with it. Although the man was inflamed with anger, his peers found the incident amusing and prevented him from killing her. She also was allowed to ride the horse.
As was the custom with many hostages, Catherine was forced to run the gauntlet. Villagers followed the usual practice of trying to hurt the hostage. A prisoner showing fear or poor physical abilities was one marked for culling, but Catherine overturned all expectations when she grabbed a stick from one of the villagers and beat her way through the gauntlet. Once again, her fiercely protective instincts saved her and her children. On another occasion, she enabled the death of an elderly Native woman, thus opening room for her son to move indoors as winter was coming. The woman had been sickly and known to fall. She fell or was pushed into the campfire, where she died.
The hostages were redeemed within the next year in a prisoner exchange, with Catherine's daughter Elizabeth Catherine staying behind with her husband, the son of Chief Cornstalk.
Catherine may have been married to a man named John Hardy before she married Frederick See. If so, it was a very short marriage and apparently yielded no children. As Mrs. See (also spelled "Zeh"), she had many children.
At least two of her sons, John and Michael (Memorial# 63012696), fought in the Revolutionary War.
(From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=SE&GSfn=c&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=37&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GSsr=401&GRid=54391203&df=all&)
- Moved with her daughter Margaret See Roach Robinson and family when Margaret's husband acquired 4000 acres of land in Franklin Township where the cemetery is located.
