Re: Scott Skidmore Texas 1902
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In reply to:
Scott Skidmore Texas 1902
Scottie Shelton 4/02/04
Below is an extract from the book "Thomas Skidmore (Scudamore), 1605-1684, of Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, and Fairfield, Connecticut, his ancestors and descendants to the ninth generation,” by Warren Skidmore, (3rd edition, 1997), 788 p.
This book traces this family line back to the Domesday Book (1086) in England. Some of this family line have been verified by DNA.
The book is included on our Skidmore/Scudamore Genealogy CD. For a description of the CD see www.skidmoregenealogy.com. The CD us available from me - price is $75 USD.
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the extract:
331.CAPTAIN SAMUEL COIL7 SKIDMORE was born on 6 April 1821 near Moorefield, Hardy County, (West) Virginia, the son of Andrew (no. 142) and Elizabeth (Stonestreet) Skidmore.He died 3 August 1883 aged 62 years, 4 months at Mira Flores, the ranch of his daughter Martha Ann Hollinshead in Bee County, Texas, and was buried in the cemetery at Oakville, Live Oak County, Texas, a short distance west of Skidmore and Beeville.His gravestone is broken but has been reset on top of his grave.He married Elizabeth Ann, the daughter of Reverend Christopher and Ann (Brumbach) Keyser of Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 25 December 1841.She was born 10 March 1823, and died 8 May 1891 aged 68.She is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery at Beeville, Bee County, Texas.
He was a witness on 10 February 1841 to the consent note signed by his father Andrew Skidmore at the marriage of his sister Emily O. Skidmore to David Lionberger in Pendleton County.
Samuel Coil Skidmore was living on the North Fork of the South Branch in Pendleton County in the 1850 census.He also owned the valuable bottom land on the Holly River which was formerly the property of his uncleReverend John Skidmore. His son Calvin was born there in 1844.
In 1853 he and his family left Wheeling by steamboat for Texas, going by way of New Orleans.They crossed the Gulf of Mexico by the steamboat Mexico landing at Galveston.The last lap of the journey to Bastrop County was by ox team made with the assistance of John Whitehead, a young man who had come with the Skidmores from Virginia.Samuel C. Skidmore grew four crops of tobacco in Bastrop County, then moved in 1857 to San Patricio County, Texas. He went into the stock business there raising fine horses and cattle, and returned briefly to Virginia to purchase the horses which became the basis of his stable.
He served on juries in San Patricio County in 1856, 1859, and 1865.He built a log house here, about three miles from the Nueces River, and burned a kiln of lime for whitewash to paint his ranch.All of his water had to be hauled from the river.He was High Sheriff of the county in 1861.
In addition to his cattle business he had a small fleet of schooners that operated out of Rockport carrying cargo as far as Galveston on the east and Brownsville to the west and as far south as Matamoras in Mexico.
Samuel Coil Skidmore served at the beginning of the Civil War as a Captain under Brigadier General H. P. Bee in the 29th Brigade of Texas Militia. A muster roll of his company of 38 officers and men present on 17 July 1861 still survives in the State Library at Austin. The company was largely raised in Precinct No. 1 in San Patricio County.He enlisted later on 25 March 1862 in Aransas County under Captain Bartholomew for the duration of the war in Company C, Third (Yager’s) Battalion of Texas Cavalry.The Third (Yager’s) and the Eighth (Taylor’s) Battalion were later merged into the First (Yager’s) Battalion.He was discharged in April 1863.
His two sons also served in the Confederate Army, and all three served without injury throughout the war.In 1862 Samuel C. Skidmore is described as aged 41, 5' 8" tall, with black hair and eyes and a stock raiser.He was stationed for one year on the Rio Grande, riding one of the horses that he had bred.James Skidmore, the younger brother of Captain Skidmore, served as a commissioned officer in the 51st Illinois Infantry of the Union Army in a war which frequently pitted brother against brother.
After the war he spent eight years at Rockport in Aransas County, and was on a jury there in 1872.He then moved to Bee County, Texas, where he acquired a 600 acre cattle ranch on the Aransas River.In 1882 he wrote back to Virginia that he had “the prettiest place in Bee County.”He also acquired a large tract of land on Olmos Creek in Bee County.His last home was at Corpus Christi, a place that his son Thomas Baxter Skidmore either inherited or bought and where his family lived from 1895 to 1898.
Samuel Skidmore died in 1883. His son Francis O. Skidmore came into the possession of most of his father’s lands. In 1886 inaccordance with his father’s wishes he donated a right of way across his land to the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad.He gave at same time the land for the streets and every alternate block to found the town of Skidmore, Texas, served by the railroad.
Frank O. Skidmore started life as a cowboy in San Patricio County and attained wealth by thrift and keen management.By the early 1880s he was one of the largest cattle dealers in his part of Texas. He moved to Oaxaca, Mexico, where he owned 50,000 acres, in 1913 to develop his mining interests there. He was buried at Oaxaca two years later.
Samuel C. Skidmore was stocky with grey hair and a short beard from a picture of him found in Mrs. I. C. Madray’s History of Bee County (1939).
Children:
i. Andrew Christopher, born 2 February 1843.He died 27 February 1843.
ii. Calvin Adolphus, born 21 January 1844.He married (1) Lena Beal Overton (1859-____) on 1 September 1874 (from whom he was divorced), and (2) Nellie Decrow (1848-____) a widow, on 18 November 1890 in Aransas County.He had enlisted as a private in Company D, Third Texas Infantry, and was transferred to Company C, Third (Yager’s) Battalion of Texas Cavalry with his father. He had enlisted on 6 March 1862 and was sick on the muster roll for February 1864. He was furloughed on 31 March 1865 and was at home at the end of the war.He and his wife were living in Bee County in 1880. He was living at the corner of Webster and Rice Streets in Houston in 1889, while his wife Lena (who used her maiden name) and their sons were living elsewhere in the city. He was living alone in 1900 in Bee County, Texas, and with his brother Otis in Oklahoma in 1910.He applied for a pension on 5 June 1913 while living in Victoria County, Texas, aged 69. He stated that he was born in Braxton County, Virginia, and had been a resident of Texas since 1853. He was a peddler in 1913 and had lived in Victoria County since about 1910. He died there on 16 May 1919, but was buried in the Hollywood Cemetery at Houston in Harris County, Texas.
iii. Marcellus Anderson, born 21 January 1846. He served for 16 months in Company B, Bordner’s Regiment of Texas Cavalry in the company commanded by Captain J. Gus Patton. He enlisted in the fall of 1862 at Goliad, Goliad County, Texas, and served until the close of the war. He married (1) Lovena Caddell on 9 September 1873, and (2) Mrs. Martha A. (Mattie) Jones (1857-____), a widow,on 24 April 1877 in Karnes County, Texas. He and his wife Martha were living in Bee County in 1880 where he was a merchant; his brother Thomas Baxter Skidmore was a clerk in the store. His wife Mrs. Mattie Skidmore was living in Houston in 1894. He was living, a book agent aged 61, in Beeville, Bee County, Texas, on 7 March 1906 when he applied for a Confederate pension. He was living alone on 16 January 1912 at 432 Soledad Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, according to a letter in his pension file. He spent most of his time in bed and was so weak he could “hardly get across the street” due in part to a serious injury received in the great Galveston storm of 1900.
iv. Martha Ann Rebecca, born 3 January 1848.She married (1) Michael Henry Dickens (____-1877) on 20 April 1868 at Rockport, Aransas County.He was a merchant and postmaster in Bee County.She married (2) Clifford Brock-Hollinshead on 13 May 1880 at Skidmore, Texas.They moved to Live Oak County, Texas, where he was in the cattle and branding business.She was living in Bee County in 1911.She died 14 October 1939 and is buried in the cemetery at Beeville near her mother and several members of the Dickens family.
v. Francis Osbern (Frank O.), born 16 November 1849.He married Carrie Wharton Dickson (1855-1954) on 3 August 1871, the mother of his ten children..He was a farmer in Bee County in 1880.He acquired 50,000 acres in Oaxaca State, Mexico, in 1901. A biography and portrait of him may be found in A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas (1907), II, 141.He died in 1915 at Oaxaca City where he is buried. His widow Carrie Skidmore was living in 1920 at 104 Marshall Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
vi. Pamily Florence, born 28 December 1851.She died 27 February 1856.
vii. Charles Keyser, born 2 October 1854.He died in what is now Aransas County, Texas, on 20 October 1871 aged 17.
viii. Eugene Milton, born 14 June 1856.He died, it is said, on 29 (sic) February 1857.
ix. Otis Saladin (Ott), born 19 April 1859 at Skidmore, Texas. He returned for several years beginning in 1874 to the Virginia Normal Music School at New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia, for a month’s study in the summer. He married Annie Flower Price (1857-1942), a Cherokee Indian, on 13 August 1882 in Gonzales County, Texas.They were living in 1900 on lands belonging to the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory (Oklahoma).He was a merchant at Oolagah, Rogers County, Oklahoma in 1911. He died 9 June 1912 at Winthrop, Little River County, Arkansas, but is buried at Oolagah. His widow Anna was living in 1920, aged 62, with her son Benjamin P. Skidmore at Oolagah.
x. Thomas Baxter, born 20 October 1861.He was a clerk in his brother’s grocery store in Bee County in 1880.He married Margaret Hamilton (1865-____) on 9 May 1888.He was living at Rio Grande City, Starr County, Texas, in 1900.He was killed at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, on 30 September 1910 leaving his widow (who was living in 1920 in Starr County, Texas) to bring up his eight children.