Abner Brown Skelton (1806 - 1892)

Born 1 Jun 1806 in South Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Susan Lyon (Vick) Skelton — married 5 May 1832 in Dickson County, Tennessee

Descendants

Died 20 Jan 1892 at age 85 in Ellis Mills, Houston County, Tennessee

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Biography

He was born in South Carolina and brought as a child to Horse Branch, Dickson County, Tennessee by his parents. He received little education, but had good business sense and did a lot of financial dealings. As a young man worked as an overseer at Magnolia Plantation in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Later he bought the Ben Young place at Ellis Mill in what was then Dickson County but later became Houston County.

By 1850 he owned 150 acres He married Susan Lyon Vick(1817-1869) and they had 8 sons and 4 daughters. His home is still standing, a two story log house covered with clapboards. It is owned by a descendant.

His son Robert wrote that when Nathan Forrest escaped from the surrender of Fort Donelson, he stopped at Abner's house for the night.

His son Joseph was killed in the Civil War. He was appointed Postmaster for Yellow Creek post office in 1875.^[1] He was a slaveowner.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ U.S., Register of Civil, Military, and Naval Service, 1863-1959
2. ↑ Skelton, James M(1834-1927) A Short Sketch of the Life of Archibald Skelton and His Family, by JM Skelton, handwritten document, 1924.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCD8-SQK : 9 November 2014), Alfred Sketton in household of A B Sketton, Dickson county, Dickson, Tennessee, United States; citing family 796, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8TC-M29 : 30 December 2015), L M Skelton in entry for A B Skelton, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD85-1NN : 17 October 2014), Alfred Skelton in household of A B Skelton, Tennessee, United States; citing p. 13, family 94, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,023.

• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21164383

• Several sources to be copied from the Ancestry.com family tree "Skelton-Flora Family at http://person.ancestry.com/tree/12239187/person/-306260851/facts

• Tombstone information

• Document by his son Robert Skelton concerning Forrest stopping there

• US Census entries 1840, 1880

• US Census Slave Schedules 1850, 1860

• Probate: "Tennessee, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008"
  Wills, 1800-1899; Author: Dickson County (Tennessee) County Clerk; Probate Place: Dickson, Tennessee
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 9176 #3799960 (accessed 27 August 2023)
  Archibald Skelton will, 12 Aug 1850 in Dickson, Tennessee, USA.