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Lucy (Thompson) Skaggs (1742 - aft. 1838)

Lucy Skaggs formerly Thompson
Born in Colony of Virginiamap
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , , and
Wife of — married before 1759 in Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , , and
Died after after age 95 in Barren County, Kentucky, USAmap
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Lucy (Thompson) Skaggs migrated from Virginia to Kentucky.
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Biography

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Lucy (Thompson) Skaggs was a Virginia colonist.
Lucy (Thompson) Skaggs was part of a Southern Pioneer Family.

Name

Name: Lucy Thompson[1]
Note: Her name has never been found to be shown as Lucinda in any source or oral history, including her brother's diary.[2] As far as we know, her name is was simply Lucy.

Native American Legend

Lucy Thompson has been suggested to have Native American heritage, by some descendants. However, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from a descendant of Lucy (through daughters of daughters) positively proves her maternal heritage to be European (Haplogroup U5b2b[3][4][5]) and absolutely not Native American.
Additionally, the Diary of Archibald Thompson[2], her brother, provides us with no reason to believe that Lucy was born in Georgia, in accordance with the legend of Indian ancestry.[6]

Marriage

Husband: Charles Skaggs
Wife: Lucy Thompson
Date: abt. 1758
Place: Virginia (sic: no KY in 1750, likely Virginia.)

Children

  1. Rachel Skaggs
  2. Nancy Skaggs
  3. Frederick Skaggs
  4. Mary Skaggs
  5. Thomas Skaggs
  6. Sarah Skaggs
  7. Moses David Skaggs

Death

Died after 1838 in Barren County, Kentucky

Sources

  1. ↑ Ancestry Family Trees (Information from multiple Ancestry Family Tree files.)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Diary of Archibald Thompson, transcribed by Doug Moore in 2000
  3. ↑ Haplogroup U5
  4. ↑ Ursula Haplogroup U5
  5. ↑ FTDNA: Haplogroup U5b
  6. ↑ Bill Vincent - mtDNA Analysis and Personal Research

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Acknowledgments

  • Thank you to Steve Conner for creating WikiTree profile Thompson-12774 through the import of Mikesell Winters_2013-09-04.ged on 4 Sep 2013.
  • Click to the Changes page for the details of edits.




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Steven Potter
Lucy is referred to as Lucinda in the following book Mammoth Cave Forgotten Stories of it's Past, on page 154. Which I recently purchased from the Park Service. It also references her being half Cherokee from Conasauga Creek Georgia.

This book has a lot of history in it for several Pioneer families from the Mammoth Cave Area.

How correct it is, who knows.

posted by Steven Potter
Vincent-18 Bill Vincent Ph.D.
The book is flat out wrong. She is never found as Lucinda. Her name always appears in every source as just Lucy. Inventive people added Georgia as her place of birth to help justify her mythical heritage. No original source, including he diary of her brother Archibald, contains any mention of Georgia

Lucy's mother was rumored to be "full Cherokee" in oral histories. This has been absolutely proven to be false using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing. Unlike autosomal DNA which more people are now more familiar, mtDNA is passed only from a mother to her children with virtually no changes. By testing of mtDNA of Lucy's matrilineal descendants, her mtDNA haplogroup was determined to be U5b2b31. mtDNA Haplogroup U is not found in Native Americans, but is found in 11% of native Europeans and is held as the oldest maternal haplogroup found in that region. This proves that neither Lucy nor her mother were of Native American descent.

posted by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
Anonymous Nagel
Thompson-15938 and Thompson-12774 appear to represent the same person because: Same first and last name, same link to "Skaggs" last name. Both have father as John Thompson. Both have mother name as Mary (although different maiden last name of mother). Same exact birth date, although different birth place, both have siblings Mary and George.
posted by Anonymous Nagel
Vincent-18 Bill Vincent Ph.D.
Detailed information for Lucy Thompson and her children by Charles Skaggs can be found in the diary of her brother, Archibald Thompson.
Update: although these links are dead they may be accessed through the Internet Archive:
Diary
Index
posted by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
edited by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
Lee-5956 Robin Lee
Thompson-20282 and Thompson-15938 appear to represent the same person because: same basic information, same husband, difference in dates should be documented for future research
posted by Robin Lee

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