Samuel Edwards Skinner (1826 - 1884)

Born Dec 1826 in Montgomery County, Ohio

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Johnson) Skinner — married 27 Sep 1847 in Cass County, Indiana

Died 16 Nov 1884 at age 57 in Mexico, Miami County, Indiana

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Biography

This profile is part of the Skinner Name Study.

Samuel was born in Ohio [2, 3, 4, & 5] in 1826 to Thomas and Permelia (Cox) Skinner. The family moved to Cass County, Indiana in 1837 [6]. There Samuel married Mary Johnson in 1847 [1]. Samuel worked as a farmer [2, 3, 4, & 5]. They had two boys and a girl who grew into adulthood. Samuel died in 1884 and was buried in the Old Cemetery in Mexico [7].

Sources

1. Cass County Indiana Marriage Record, 1829-1851, Book 1, page 73.

2. The 1850 U.S. Census for the State of Indiana, Cass County, Adams Township (Samuel Skinner, age 24, born in Ohio, working as a farmer). [Census available on ancestry.com.]

3. The 1860 U.S. Census for the State of Indiana, Miami County, Jefferson Township (S.E. Skinner, age 33, born in Ohio, working as a farmer). [Census available on ancestry.com.]

4. The 1870 U.S. Census for the State of Indiana, Miami County, Jefferson Township (Saml. Skinner, age 42, born in Ohio, working as a farmer). [Census available on ancestry.com.]

5. The 1880 U.S. Census for the State of Indiana, Miami County, Jefferson Township (Samuel E. Skinner, age 53, born in Ohio, working as a farmer). [Census available on ancestry.com.]

6.The Peru Republican for Friday, November 21, 1884 carried an obituary for Samuel Skinner. It read: SAMUEL E. SKINNER DEAD "With sincere regret The Republican chronicles the death of Samuel E. Skinner, who for more than a quarter of a century has been a prominent citizen of Jefferson Township. Born in December 1825, in Montgomery County, Ohio, where he spent the early years of his boyhood, he removed to Indiana with his father in the autumn of 1837, and located on Twelve Mile, in Cass County, about ten miles northwest of Peru. Uncle Tommy Skinner was one of the pioneers of that locality and no family was more widely known or universally respected than his. In the backwoods Samuel grew to manhood; his hands helped to clear the forests; and open up the wealth of the country; there he married and settled on a tract of land in sight of his father's house. In a few years, however, he became restive, his public spirit sought a wider field. He sold his little farm on Twelve Mile and removed to Mexico, where he engaged for a while in mercantile business, then bought a fine farm on Eel River, half a mile below the village, on which he removed and spent the remainder of his life. He has become widely known as an enterprising farmer and stock dealer. He was a man of personal worth and popularity. He engaged actively in politics, and indeed was a leading man in all respects; as a patron of public schools, Sunday School, church and the benevolent societies of which he was a member. He was kind hearted, generous, liberal, always ready to assist in relieving want or distress, as well as to encourage every worthy enterprise. The minister who visited him frequently writes: 'he always expressed himself as being a firm believer in the Christian religion and a short time before his death said he was looking hopefully toward the future.' He will be greatly missed in the community of which he was so long an honored member. He leaves a widow, two married sons, and a married daughter."

7. Wendell C. Tombaugh, Miami County, Indiana Cemeteries, Volume 2: Richland, Jefferson, and Erie Townships (Rochester, Indiana, 1988), page 407.

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