Thomas Skinner
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Thomas Skinner (1795 - 1880)

Thomas Skinner
Born in Rockingham, North Carolina, United Statesmap
Husband of — married 7 Sep 1820 in Montgomery, Ohio, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 85 in Adams Township, Cass, Indiana, United Statesmap
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Biography

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Thomas was born in 1796 in Rockingham County, North Carolina [11] to Thomas and Sarah (Pickrel) Skinner [2]. By 1800 the family moved into Rowan County, North Carolina where Thomas grew up.

In 1814, Thomas Skinner was drafted into the North Carolina Detached Militia, organized in August. He served in the Third Regiment of Rowan, Montgomery, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, and Iredell Counties. Thomas was assigned to the Rowan County 7th Brigade [10].

By 1816 Thomas' father, also named Thomas, moved with most of his family from Rowan County, North Carolina to Montgomery County, Ohio. There the younger Thomas met and married his wife Permelia Cox [1] and their 9 children were born there.

In 1837 Thomas and Permelia, and their family, moved to Cass County, Indiana where they lived the rest of their lives [4]. Thomas worked as a farmer [7, 8, & 9]

In 1847 Thomas and Permelia were among the organizers of the Twelve Mile Christian Church [6]. Thomas donated a portion of his farm land to the church and a log building was erected there for worship. Permelia died in 1868 and Thomas died in 1800 [11]. Both were buried in the cemetery surrounding the church [11 & 12].

NOTE: Thomas Skinner has been proven for First Families of Ohio (in residence before 1821), of the Ohio Genealogical Society.


Sources

1. Montgomery County, Ohio, Marriage Records, Book A, page 91.

2. Will of Thomas Skinner, of Montgomery County and State of Ohio, written March 17, 1828, named his wife Sarah and his son Thomas as administrators of his estate. [Recorded in Montgomery County Will Book 1, pages 42-43.]

3. The 1830 U.S. Census for the State of Ohio, Montgomery County, Butler Township (for Thomas Skinner). [Census available on ancestry.com.]

4. The Peru Republican for Friday, March 15, 1918. The story of the Skinner family move from Ohio to Indiana is told by son Thomas H. Skinner: "I think my father was born to be a pioneer, because when he arrived on his land on October 4, 1837, he dumped eight children out of his wagon right into the thick woods and not a house nor a building of any kind closer to us than a mile. Well, it was lucky for Dad that his first four children were boys. Brother John was sixteen years old at the time and all four of the boys had axes. You bet they made the brush crack for three weeks until they got a log cabin built, and on the 21st of November, 1837, we left our tent and moved into our new mansion. We were pretty close to heaven then. I was just a year old when we moved into our new house. That day I walked my first. Sister Caroline told me how tickled they all were to see little Tommy toddling around over the floor. One of our particular jobs in those early days was to keep the seed of fire, because there was not a sulphur match made in this country until we had been in Indiana for eight years. When our fire went out we had two ways to get the start again. One was to take a piece of dry, rotten wood and lay a flint on it and take a piece of steel and strike the edge of the flint and knock a spark on to the rotten wood. Then we had to nurse the little baby fire until we got a start again. Another way to start a fire was to shoot fire out of the gun. And this is how we did it. We put kindling in the fireplace and then put powder in the gun, with cotton rags in the gun on the powder. Then we'd shoot that load into the kindling; the powder set the rags on fire and the rags set the kindling on fire. Our gun was an old flint lock gun, and many were the wild deer that my brothers shot with it."

5. The 1840 U.S. Census for the State of Indiana, Cass County (for Thomas Skinner). [Census available on ancestry.com.]

6. The History of Cass County, Indiana by Thomas B. Helm, page 602, states that Thomas and Amelia Skinner were among the members who organized the Twelve Mile Christian Church on January 16, 1847. Thomas was one of the first officers and served as deacon and trustee. Worship for the congregation was conducted in private dwellings about one year. The residences of Thomas Skinner and James Reed were used. Then they met in a log building erected on land donated by Thomas Skinner for the church building. The building was used until 1870 when it was torn down for another structure.

7. The 1850 U.S. Census for the State of Indiana, Cass County, Adams Township (Thomas Skinner, age 55, born in North Carolina, working as a farmer, living with his wife Milley and children). [Census available on ancestry.com.]

8. The 1860 U.S. Census for the State of Indiana, Cass County, Adams Township (Thomas Skinner, age 55, born in North Carolina, working as a farmer, living with his wife Parmelia and some of their children). [Census available on ancestry.com.]

9. The 1870 U.S. Census for the State of Indiana, Cass County, Adams Township (Thomas Skinner, age 75, born in North Carolina, working as a farmer, living with his wife Mary). [Census available on ancestry.com.]

10. January 6, 1879 Application for pension for serving in the War of 1812 (claim #34, 062).

11. The Logansport Weekly Journal for Saturday, April 10, 1880 carried an obituary for Thomas Skinner. It read: DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN. "Thomas Skinner was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, March 11th, 1795, died April 3rd, 1880, aged 85 years and 23 days. In early life he removed with his parents to the State of Ohio, where he was married in 1820. In 1836 he removed with his family to Adams Township, Cass County, Indiana where he resided until his death. During more than sixty years of his life, he was a faithful and consistent member of the Christian Church, and died in the triumphs of living faith. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, and was one of the most largely attended that was ever held in that township. The remains were interred at Twelve Mile graveyard." [Indiana newspapers available on newspaperarchives.com.]

12. Personal visit to Skinner Chapel Cemetery, 1999.






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