Mary Magdalena (Henckel) Skidmore (1743 - 1829)

Born 1 Feb 1743 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of John A Skidmore — married 1762 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 18 Oct 1829 at age 86 in Germany Valley, Pendleton, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Following items are noted in the Skidmore book referenced below: Birth: 1743 Germantown, Phildalephia, Pennslyvania Husband: John A. Skidmore 1736 - 1809 Death: Oct 18 1829 Germany Valley, Pendleton Co., West Virginia Parents: Johann Justus Henckel 1706-1778 Magdalena Eschmann 1711-1782

Siblings:

1. Anna Maria Elizabeth Hinkle 1731 - 1824
2. Mary Magdalena Henckel 1732 - 1736
3. Catherine Henckel 1735 - 1801
4. Rebecca Henckel 1736 - 1797
5. Jacob Henkle ? - 1799
6. <Private> Henckel
7. Maria Anna Henckel 1738 - ?
8. Susannah Teter/deiter (born Henkel) 1747 - 1810
9. Abraham Henkel 1749 - 1815
10. Hannah Johnson (born Henckel) 1750 - 1780
11. John Justus Henkel 1752 - 1794
12. Paul Hinkle 1755 - ? ^[1]

Mary Magdalena Skidmore. ^[2]

Born 1 February 1743. Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. ^[3]

Died 18 October 1829. Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States of America. ^[4]

Buried Ruddle, Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States of America. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ MyHeritage
2. ↑ Source: #S1222361135
3. ↑ Source: #S1222361135
4. ↑ Source: #S1222361135
5. ↑ Source: #S1222361135

• https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-291031701-3-42190/mary-magdalena-skidmore-born-henckel-in-myheritage-family-trees?s=216760841

• THOMAS SKIDMORE (SCUDAMORE), 1605-1684, OF WESTERLEIGH, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, AND FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT; his ancestors, and descendants to the ninth generation; by WARREN SKIDMORE

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Henckel-7 created by Joseph Stalnaker.

According to "The Skidmore Family of West Virginia" website (disabled link) mysite.verizon.net/michael6076/id2.html

John Skidmore, according to family stories related down through the years, was a quiet, serious man, very religious and devoted to his family.

He had married Mary Magdalena Henckel;, known as Polly, in 1743. She was the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the area who, with other German-origin families, had settled on a nearby enormous scenic farmland tract known as Germany Valley.

The Henckel family had its origins in Daudenzell, Germany. John Justus Henckel, Polly's father, accompanied his parents to Pennsylvania in 1717.

He was the son of the Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel, an Evangelical Lutheran minister from the German Palatinate, and his wife Maria Elizabeth (Dentzer) Henckel. John Justis Henckel later moved to North Carolina, but because of aggressive Indians moved again to Pendleton County, Va., and bought land in 1760.

In 1730 John Justus Henckle had married Magdalena Eschmann. His name was spelled in various ways: Henkel, Henckel and Hinkle.

The family built "Hinkle's Fort" on the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac.

It was used by the colonists for protection from Indians during the Revolutionary War.

A history of the Henckel family says 30 Henckels served in the Revolutionary War in Virginia and Pennsylvania.

John Justice Hinkle and his wife were buried in the same grave on his farm in Germany Valley near the old Hinkle's Fort

They were parents of 14 other children besides Polly."

He and Mary Magdalena raised a large family in a fine brick house which he built on the South Branch.

John died in Pendleton Co., VA. (WV) Oct. 12, 1809 and Mary died Oct. 18, 1829.

They are buried in the John Skidmore Cemetery located 3 mile s north of Ruddle, Pendleton Co., WV. along US Rt. 220, on the east side of the South Branch of the Potomac River.

There are between 15-18 unmarked graves, with Capt. John A. Skidmore having the only marked grave.

Mary is buried on a hill, overlooking site, 3 miles N. of Ruddle, E. of Rt. , 220, E. Side of S. Bridge.

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Sibling

Anna Maria Elizabeth "Mary" Henckel Ellsworth

She was born August 2, 1731 at the Macungie Creek German Settlement, Upper Bucks County (now Lower Lehigh Co.), Pennsylvania, daughter of John Justus "Yost" Henckel and Marie Magdalene Eschmann Henckel. She was christened August 22, 1731 in the New Goshoppen Lutheran Church on Macungie Creek, probably then Bucks Co.(now Montgomery Co.), Pennsylvania by Rev. John Peter Miller. Sponsors were (John) Valentine Griesemer and wife (Uncle and Aunt) and Marie Elizabeth (Dentzer) Henckel (Grandmother). She married Moses Ellsworth about 1750, Dutchman's Creek, Anson Co. (Rowan Co. in 1753, now Davies Co.), North Carolina. Most researchers have them located in present day Davidson Co., NC, but looking at a map where Ellsworth Creek flows into Dutchman's Creek, the area is actually in Davies Co., NC. Their first three or four children were born while they lived on Ellsworth Creek, at Dutchman's Creek.

About 1760, the Moses Ellsworth family joined the Henckel families and other German families that left North Carolina to settle the beautiful valley in Augusta Co., Virginia, now known as Germany Valley in Pendleton County, West Virginia near Riverton. In 1761.

Moses patented 60 acres of land on the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River, near Deep Springs in Augusta Co., Virginia (about two miles above present day Riverton).

By 1771 nearly 300 more acres had been added and by 1778 the area became Rockingham Co., VA.

Their land was about one mile west of the land of her parents and the Hinkle Fort, which her father built for families of all his children, as protection against the Indians.

Mary and Moses had eight or nine more children while in this area.

It is known they had a total of four sons and a possible eight to nine daughters.

During the Revolutionary War, Moses and Mary were given credit for "supplies furnished the American Army for military use."

Any descendant that can prove lineage back to these grandparents can join the adult organizations of Daughters of the American Revolution, or Sons of the American Revolution or a child the Children of the American Revolution, if they so desire.

They sold their holdings in Rockingham Co. in 1787 and migrated to Harrison Co., VA (now WV), where in 1788 land was bought in the valley south of Coburn's Creek Road [as it was marked in the 1970s when I was there], about ten miles below Clarksburg, near present day Good Hope in Union Township.

--from "Sketches of the Life and Labor of James Quinn, Who was Nearly Half a Century a Minister of the Gospel in the Methodist Episcopal Church" by John F. Wright of the Ohio conference in 1851 -- Chapter XIV, page 248:

"In every age of the Church there have been persons of sterling worth, not only in the ministry, but also in the membership who in their day were pillars of the house...I now propose to give some account of the Ellsworth family in their generation...[1799] I became acquainted with Moses Ellsworth, the pious patriarch of this extensive, pious, and amiable family. He was of English descent. His pious wife was a German. They often used the German tongue in conversation...Here [Harrison Co., VA/WV] he opened his house to receive the first Methodist missionaries and his heart to receive the Gospel of the Grace of God, which ultimately proved to be the power of God to the salvation of his own soul, the souls of his household, and many of his neighbors...sons were all praying men...daughters... were pious with their husbands...The old patriarch and his good wife held onto the even tenor of their way till death came..." Excerpts from a letter written by the Rev. Wesley L. Cheuvront of Clarksburg, WV, to Willard Ellsworth M.D. on January 29, 1949: ..."On February 14,1802, John [son of Moses and Mary] and his wife Mary Richards Ellsworth made a deed for one acre of ground, situated on the West Fork River, to nine trustees [of the M.E. Church]...church that was to be built...took the name Ellsworth Church [also known as The Ellsworth Meeting House]...[Later known as Bethel Church and still later Old Bethel Church. The church is long gone.]...The Old Bethel Church Cemetery [now known as Bethel Cemetery] occupies the the entire acre...and has been filled with graves for years, many unmarked. Prior to building the Ellsworth Church in 1802, a Methodist Society was formed, with Moses Ellsworth as leader, as early as 1786 [or 1787]...they met in various homes..."

Moses died before the church was built and is believed buried in the cemetery there. Mary went to Ohio with some of her children before 1812 and settled in Champaign County. Her nephew, Reverend Paul Henkel located his aunt during his trip in 1812 to the German Settlement on Mad River, Champaign County, Ohio (in 1818 a part of Clark Co.). According to the Henckel genealogy she died in 1824 at age 93. She is buried in Clark Co., Ohio.

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