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Skelton - James A.


Source: 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.

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