Eighth Generation

4216. Garrett Mattis Skillman was born on 11 November 1878 in Raritan, Somerset, NJ. He lived Trollyman. in Elizabeth, Union, NJ on 26 June 1899. He lived 12 Miles St. in Elizabeth, Union, NJ in 1900. In 1920 Garrett was a private chauffeur in Elizabeth, Union, NJ. He died in 1965 at the age of 87. He was buried at White Lawn Cemetery in Point Pleasant, Ocean, NJ.

Garrett Mattis Skillman and Maria Elizabeth "Lizzie" Tanner were married on 26 June 1899 at D.R. Lowerie, Market Street, M.E. Church in Paterson, Passaic, NJ. They appeared in the census in 1920 at 578 Jackson Ave. in Elizabeth, Union, NJ. Maria Elizabeth "Lizzie" Tanner, daughter of James Tanner and Phoebe Brudy, was born in October 1873 in New Jersey. 1920 Census gives her age as 41, or b.c. 1878. She was buried at White Lawn Cemetery in Point Pleasant, Ocean, NJ.