History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 531.
[Bourbon County]  [Flat Rock Precinct]

JOHN W. SKILLMAN, farmer; P. O. North Middletown; proprietor of Willow
Valley farm, was born Aug. 10, 1811, in Bedford County, Va.; he is the
next youngest of a family of seven children, three sons and four
daughters, by Isaac and Nancy (Whitely) Skillman; all were natives of
Virginia; Isaac came to Bourbon County and settled near North Middletown,
in the fall of 1816; where he purchased 216 acres of land (partly cleared)
on the line of Bourbon and Clark Counties; his cabin, a double log one,
was one-half in each county; all of his children grew to maturity, but
two sons and two daughters are now living.  Christopher, the youngest of
the family, now resides in Platte County, Mo.; Catharine, a Mrs. (Allen)
Shropshire, residing in Scott County; Harriette, a Mrs. Wilmott, of
Bourbon; Isaac, died in 1856, in his eighty-fourth year, his wife in
1831, in her fifty-fifth year.  Our subject received such an education
as could be obtained in the log school house of his youth, and assisted
in the farm work; upon Feb. 2, 1832, he was married to Adaline Henderson,
a resident of Scott County; by her he had seven children, viz: one died
in infancy; Isaac, married Cynthia Hayes and resides in Humbolt County,
Neb.; A. J., whose sketch appears in this work; John W., married Susan
Mark, of Montgomery County, she died in Jun 1879; Amanda J., now a Mrs.
John T. McCauley, residing in Harrison County; Nannie A., a Mrs. George
W. Cunningham, who died March 30, 1881; leaving four children, he resides
in Ellis County, Texas; Charles C., married to Miss Olivia Price, and
resides at Eufaula, Ala.; the wife of Mr. Skillman died in 1848, and he
subsequently married Lydia Chambers, a native of Scott County, born Feb.
17, 1817, and a daughter of James and Kittie (Johnson) Chambers, who
were natives of Virginia; by her he had three sons: William G., who
married Miss Dee Rice, and resides in Clark County; Richard C., and
Benjamin F., at home.  Mr. Skillman has devoted his life to farming,
stock driving to the extreme of South, and of late years has paid some
attention to the raising of thoroughbred Cotswold sheep; he is a
conservative Democrat and with his family holds a membership in the
Christian Church.

Skillman Whitely Shropshire Wilmott Henderson Hayes Mark McCauley
Cunningham Price Chambers Johnson Rice

Clark-KY Scott-KY Montgomery-KY Harrison-KY Ellis-TX Humbolt-NE
Platte-MO Bedford-VA AL VA

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