Re: Researching David Skillman and Rebecca Canterbury
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Re: Researching David Skillman and Rebecca Canterbury
Donna Lynch 12/15/11
Thank you so much Donna for your help. We are cousins, our line desends from Elijah B. Skillman the brother to your David Skillman. Both Elijah and David had a daughter named Mary Ann Skillman.We desend from his son Isaac Thomas Skillman, who migrated back to Alabama.
Sadly it seemed all the kids except James L. Skillman the brother to David and Elijah, met an early demise?David - 1845, Christopher - 1846, and my Elijah - 1851, and the girls likewise (going from memory and the names elude me)We know what happened to Christopher in 1846, but the other kids am not sure what happened to them.Appartently they died young in their 30's.
All the kids predeceased their mother. David's son John Canterbury Skillman known as JC took care of her and her affiars upon her death.The only surviving son James L. had died in 1860, and apparthently prior to this he was the family rock, they all depended upon.James L. Skillman was recorded to be the largest man to ever live in Mississippi.
All this territory in Old Tishomingo according to history was the boom town of the 1830's and was the Old West of the day, like the years later Dodge City and Tombstone.Seems there was a gun fight every day, and a person could get killed for looking the wrong way.Gun and knife fights in the streets was a common thing in the early days.
Appartently your David met and married the daughter of his step father John Arron Canterbury, Rebecca Canterbury.Both couples ( David and Rebecca and his mom Lydia and John ) met and married at about the same year in Bibb County Alabama in 1819/20.
PS: I am going from memory and apologize for any errors on dates, do not have access to my material at the present time.
Email me at [email protected] [email protected] , and I will share more on our families.Thanks from a Cousin, Danny Skillman