Elizabeth Ann (Woodworth) Skinner (1804 - 1901)

Born 9 Jun 1804 in Cornwallis Township, Kings County, Nova Scotia

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Died 23 Oct 1901 at age 97 in Weston, Kings County, Nova Scotia

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Elizabeth was born in 9 Oct 1804 in Cornwallis Township, Kings County, Nova Scotia.

The Berwick Register 10 January 1901 records this: “A Nonogenarian: The Morning Chronicle of Jan. 3rd, gives a sketch of an aged resident of Cornwallis - Mrs. W. H. Skinner, of Weston, formerly Miss Eliza Ann Woodworth. Mrs. Skinner was born in 1804 and is now in her 97th year. She is able to knit, read, and walk out in fine weather some little distance, and is in possession of all her facilities except that of hearing, being slightly deaf. Two of her sons, Messrs. W. A. and J. W. Skinner, reside in Weston, another son, Rev. Isaac Skinner, died in 1890. The daughters are Mrs. N. P. Spurr, Aylesford, Mrs. C. E. Sanford and Miss Skinner, of Weston.” The Nova Scotia Eaton’s webpage states "The Chronicle's Sketch is accompanied by a well executed likeness of Mrs. Skinner - "the oldest lady in Kings County"."

A death notice for Mrs. Skinner appeared in the 24 Oct. 1901 edition of the Berwick Register: “Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Skinner passed away at the residence of her son, in Weston, on Tuesday morning last, in the ninety eighth year of her age. She was born June 9, 1804, the daughter of Abner and Hannah Woodworth. In 1835, she married Deacon Wm. H. Skinner, of Weston, in which place the greater part of her long life has been spent. She well knew the hardships of pioneer life in Nova Scotia, having taken up her abode in western Cornwallis, when the country was little other than a wilderness. A woman with a bodily vigor denied to the children of luxury possessed of a moral and religious nature worthy of her Puritan ancestors, and endowed with mental faculties of a superior order, which she retained to a late period of her life, her influence has been for the highest good, both spiritually and temporally, to the community in which her lot was cast, and the name of "Aunt Ann Skinner" will long be remembered with a respect akin to reverence among those who knew her.”

Sources

• Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics
• The Berwick Register, 10 Jan 1901
• The Berwick Register, 24 Oct 1901