| Home Surname List Name Index Sources GEDCOM File Email Us | Eighth Generation2702. Charles Quantrell Skillman was born on 8 November 1873 in Pleasant Hill, Cass, MO. His obit in the Ritzville Journal-Times has him born in St.Claire Co., MO. He immigrated in July 1900 to Dayton, Columbia, WA. He died of heart ailment on 24 June 1942 at the age of 68 at Brining Hospital in Dayton, WA. http://files.usgwarchives.net/wa/adams/obits/1942-3.txt Charles Skillman Dies WASHTUCNA - Funeral services for Charles Q. Skillman, 68, were held on Thursday afternoon in Dayton, with burial there. Mr. Skillman passed away Monday of last week, in the Brining hospital, there, from a heart ailment. Charles Q. Skillman was born in St. Claire county, Missouri, Nov. 8, 1873. On March 6, 1896, he was married to Elzira Pruitt, at Roscoe, Mo. To this union were born three children, one of whom died in infancy. With his family, he came to Dayton in July 1900, where, with the exception of a few years spent in the Yakima valley, he had since resided. His wife passed away on June 18, 1913, and later he remarried, Bertha M. Cotton of Bernice, Okla., becoming his wife, October, 1918. In addition to his wife, he leaves to mourn his death, two daughters, Mrs. Frank Epperson and Mrs. Walter Jones of Washtucna; three sisters, Mrs. Archie Collard, Mrs. Tom McLain and Mrs. E. M. Peterson, all of Walla Walla; two brothers, Joe and Sanford Skillman, of Dayton; 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, as well as a host of friends. Mr. Skillman was well known, locally, as he had visited his daughter, here, many times. Charles was buried on 6 August 1942 at Dayton City Cemetery in Dayton, Columbia, WA. Charles Quantrell Skillman and Elmira "Myra" Pruitt were married on 6 March 1896 in Roscoe, St. Clair, MO. Married by Rev. Shackleford. Elmira "Myra" Pruitt, daughter of Thomas H. Pruitt and Harriett Richardson, was born on 14 October 1878 in St. Clair Co., MO. She died on 18 June 1913 at the age of 34 at St. Mary's Hospital in Walla Walla, WA. She was buried at Dayton City Cemetery in Dayton, Columbia, WA. Dayton cemetery listing by Pat Higley gives name as Eliza. Obit has Elzira. Charles Quantrell Skillman-2589 and Elmira "Myra" Pruitt-30836 had the following children:
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