Husband: Jonathan VAN CLEAVE
Birthdate: 1 April 1800
Birthplace: Kentucky
Death date: 2 February 1885
Place of death: Eden, Yazoo Co., Missippi
Father: Ebenezer Frost VAN CLEAVE
Mother: Susannah MANIERE

Marriage date: 1837
Marriage place: Hinds County, Mississippi

Wife: Elizabeth [Rowland] PERKINS
Birthdate: 1805
Birthplace: Kentucky
Death date: abt. 1883
Place of death: Hernando, Mississippi
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Melison Rowland VAN CLEAVE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 24 January 1838
Birthplace: Hinds County, Mississippi
Death date: 1920
Place of death: Yazoo County, Mississippi
Marriage date: 21 April 1858
Marriage place: Yazoo County, Mississippi
Spouse's name: Mary Ellen EVERETT

Child No. 2: Robert Adrian VAN CLEAVE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 9 June 1840
Birthplace: Hinds County, Mississippi
Death date: 24 September 1908
Place of death: Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Marriage date: 1865
Marriage place: Yazoo County, Mississippi
Spouse's name: Eliza Rebecca SHEPPARD

Child No. 3: Nathaniel Moore VAN CLEAVE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 22 February 1842
Birthplace: Hinds County, Mississippi
Death date: 10 February 1897
Place of death: Cavanaugh, Sebastian County, Arkansas
Marriage date: 12 December 1869
Marriage place: Independence County, Arkansas
Spouse's name: Hulda Rosalie BLAKELY

Child No. 4: Daniel Boone VAN CLEAVE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1844
Birthplace: Hinds County, Mississippi
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: unknown
 
 
Documentation:
* Census Records;
* Civil War Records;
* Family members;
* Three Van Cleave genealogy books.

Notes:
* Both parents were married previously. Do not have the name of Jonathan's first wife - their children were: Serena Jane, Stephen, Joseph, William, Elizabeth, James Calvert, Nancy, Thomas Volney and Galen Norten Van Cleave. Elizabeth's first husband was Samuel P. Perkins - they had Samuel, Martha, Penelope and Pernicia.