| Home Surname List Name Index Sources GEDCOM File Email Us | Eighth Generation4177. Ernest Dumont Skillman was born on 11 June 1867 in Macon, Lenawee, MI. He was educated about 1883 at Sioux Falls University in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, SD. From January 1887 to November 1893 he was a collection clerk/teller at Sioux Falls National Bank in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, SD. From November 1894 to 1904 Ernest was an a cashier at State Bank in Irene, SD. He died in May 1949 at the age of 81 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, SD. He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, SD. His biography appears on pages 993-5 in "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904). It also appears on the Internet at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sd/biography/doane2/skillman.txt and also Ernest Dumont Skillman and Mary Elizabeth "Marie" Schaetzel were married on 4 October 1892 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, SD. Mary Elizabeth "Marie" Schaetzel, daughter of Jacob Schaetzel and Catherine Brenner, was born on 8 January 1872 in Freeport, Stephenson, IL. She died in 1953 at the age of 81 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, SD. She graduated. Marie was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, SD. Ancestry.com has given names as Mary Ellen, not Mary Elizabeth. Ernest Dumont Skillman-2880 and Mary Elizabeth "Marie" Schaetzel-6072 had the following children:
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