Ninth Generation

6000. Henry Martyn Skillman Jr. was born on 17 February 1891 in Lexington, Fayette, KY. He died cardiac decompensation due to arteriosclerotic and vascular disease on 10 December 1951 at the age of 60 in Lexington, Fayette, KY. He was buried on 11 December 1951 at Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Fayette, KY. Henry served in the military WW I. He was a Lexington city commissioner from 1939 to 1949.

His is listed in the Register of the District of Columbia Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1896.

Henry Martyn Skillman Jr. and Pauline Purcell were married. They lived at 424 Fayette Park in Lexington, Fayette, KY. Pauline Purcell, daughter of J. D. Purcell and Ida C. Plummer, was born on 26 December 1888. She died of a heart attack on 9 December 1950 at the age of 61 in Lexington, Fayette, KY. Obit in Lexington Herald, Sun 10 Dec 1950. She was buried on 12 December 1950 at Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Fayette, KY. Grave is in Section 26, Lot 139. Pauline was a president at The Purcell Company (department store ) in Lexington, Fayette, KY. She was a member.