Fifth Generation

163. John Skillman was born in 1770 in Loudoun Co., VA. Born 1766? He immigrated about 1806 to Bourbon Co., KY. He immigrated in 1812 to Winchester, Clark, KY. John immigrated in 1821 to Breckinridge Co., KY. He died in 1858 at the age of 88 in Breckinridge Co., KY. Thomas Lee Skillman gives d. 1858. He was buried at Mt. Zion Meth. Church Cemetery in Westview, Breckinridge, KY. His SOA Number is 33. From SOA:
...settled in Clarke Co., Va.; then circa 1806 removed with his brother Christopher to Bourbon Co., Ky.; in 1815 to Breckenridge Co.

From Thomas Lee Skillman: 1850 U.S. Census shows John living with his son, Peter.

John Skillman and Catharine Skinner were married in 1792 in Clark Co., KY. They appeared in the census in 1850 at District #2 in Breckinridge Co., KY. Catharine Skinner, daughter of Richard Alexander Skinner and Adaline Van Deventer, was born in 1768 in New Jersey. Thomas Lee Skillman gives b. 1777. She died in 1855 at the age of 87 in Breckinridge Co., KY. She was buried at Mt. Zion UMC Cemetery in Westview, Breckinridge, KY.

John Skillman-1056 and Catharine Skinner-1140 had the following children: