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Subject: Re: [INMONTGO] Three Vancleave obits (Anna Dee, Cora, & Carrie),Jeff please add
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:51:45 -0400 (EDT)


Phillip
Thank you ever so much for this information. In looking through the
children, I have not come across any of those names. I don't believe
Mark is Nancy's son. I think the man who told me did not know either
I will send to you any information I find on Mark.
Evelyn

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Philip M. Coons, M.D." <>
>Sent: Sep 9, 2006 9:09 PM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [INMONTGO] Three Vancleave obits (Anna Dee, Cora, & Carrie),Jeff please add
>
>Evelyn,
>
>Here is what I have been able to work out through the 1850-1900 censuses:
>
>MARK1 SKELTON was born Dec 1826 in Kentucky. He married LUCY VAN
>CLEAVE 27 Jul 1848 in Montgomery County, Indiana, daughter of JONATHAN
>VAN CLEAVE and ELIZABETH VAN CLEAVE. She was born 1832 in Montgomery
>County, Indiana.
>
>More About MARK SKELTON:
>
>Census 1: 1850, Monroe County, Iowa
>Census 2: 1860, Scott Twp, Montgomery, Indiana
>Census 3: 1870, Danville, Vermilion, Illinois
>Census 4: 1880, Danville, Vermillion, Illinois
>Census 5: 1900, Danville Ward 1, Vermillion, Illinois (Lucy is not
>listed. Mark is living with his daughter Jannie. She has no spouse or
>children living with her)
>
>More About MARK SKELTON and LUCY VAN CLEAVE:
>Marriage: 27 Jul 1848, Montgomery County, Indiana
>
>Children of MARK SKELTON and LUCY VAN CLEAVE are:
>i.ELIZABETH2 SKELTON, m. AARON HOEL.
>ii.JOHN H SKELTON.
>iii.EMILY E SKELTON, b. 1849, Iowa; m. JOHN GILLES.
>iv.MARGARET P SKELTON, b. 1851, Iowa.
>v.JANE SKELTON, b. Jan 1851, Iowa; m. JACOB SCHRULL.
>vi.NANCY S SKELTON, b. 1853, Indiana; m. KALE BRAKLA.
>vii.JAMES P SKELTON, b. Bet. 1854 - 1856, Indiana; m. UNKNOWN LAFFERTY.
>viii.JONATHAN W SKELTON, b. 1855, Indiana.
>ix.RANSOM SKELTON, b. 1855, Indiana.
>x.RICHARD R SKELTON, b. Mar 1860, Indiana.
>xi.JEFFERSON SKELTON, b. 1862, Indiana.
>xii.ADAM J SKELTON, b. 1863, Indiana; m. AMERICA O'BRIEN.
>xiii.CHRISTINA SKELTON, b. Bet. 1864 - 1865, Indiana.
>xiv.DAVID SKELTON, b. 1865, Indiana.
>xv.AARON SKELTON, b. 1867, Indiana.
>xvi.EMMA SKELTON, b. 1867, Indiana.
>xvii.MARTIN R SKELTON, b. May 1869, Illinois.
>xviii.IDA SKELTON, b. 1872, Illinois; m. UNKNOWN TIBBETTS.
>xix.JOSEPH SKELTON, b. 1874, Illinois.
>
>I was wrong. Mark and Lucy did not die in Iowa; they probably both died
>in Illinois. An obituary is listed for Mark in the Crawfordsville Daily
>Journal:
>
>Skelton Mark obituary Crawfordsville Daily Journal 26-Jan-1905 6:
>2 Danville, Illinois
>
>Staff at the Crawfordsville Public Library can get it for you.
>
>I've worked out the children through the census data, some of which may
>be wrong or listed in various censuses by first or middle names. Wenzel
>lists 13 children: Emeline, Richard R, Elizabeth, Jane, Nancy,
>Jonathan, James, Adam J, John H, Aaron, Ida, Joseph, Martin R. He lists
>some spouses (see above), but no dates of birth (I got those from the
>censuses). Wenzel does not say where in Kentucky Mark was born, but
>says that Lucy was born in Montgomery County, Indiana.
>
>That's all I know, except there is a James Skelton listed on the
>Montgomery County website (Could he be a brother of Mark?):
>
>James A. Skelton
>
>Montgomery County, Indiana
>
>1881 H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County Indiana Chicago: HH
>Hill. p. 419
>
>James A. Skelton, farmer, New Market, was born in Kentucky, July 30,
>1825. At the age of seven years he, with his widowed mother and her
>family of six children, emigrated to Brown township, Montgomery County,
>Indiana. Soon after she came, not being able to buy a home for her
>family, she put them out to be raised by others, and James, the subject
>of this sketch, found his home with Mr. William GOTT, Esq., with whom
>he lived till the age of twenty-one years, after which he began for
>himself by working out by the month. This he followed but one year, and
>December 12, 1847, he married Miss Rebecca WILKINSON, a native of Ohio,
>and born March 4, 1820. She come to this County in 1844. They have a
>family of four children, all of whom are married: Kezia E., wife of
>William F. BRITTON ; Margery E., wife of Marcus W. Smith; Margaret A.,
>wife of Henry C. ELLIOTT, and Sarah E. E., wife of John W. FAUST, Mr.
>Skelton is now living on his neat little home of eighty acres, and
>engaged in farming. His parents, Powell and Elizabeth (Gott) Skelton,
>are dead, his father dying in Kentucky, and his mother in this County
>in 1841.
>
>Phil Coons
>
>> Philip
>> Will you send to me what you have on Marks children.
>> Now you have Mark born in 1825 in Ky. What Co or Town.
>> When did he die and was it in Iowa. I had he died in Montgomery
>> Co. ( don't know where I got it at) Do you know anyone who has
>> information on him? My Nancy Skelton was born in Falmouth I
>> believe.
>> Thanks
>> Evelyn
>>
>>
>
>
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