| Home Surname List Name Index Sources GEDCOM File Email Us | Ninth Generation6059. Elsie Marion Skillman was born on 14 April 1903 at 23 Hart Avenue in Hopewell, Mercer, NJ. On 27 April 1927 she was an employee at Curtis Publishing Co. in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. She died of cancer on 27 April 1950 at the age of 47 in Hopewell, Mercer, NJ. Elsie was buried at Highland Cemetery in Hopewell, Mercer, NJ. She graduated at Peirce School of Business Administration in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Her wedding write-up in the Trenton Evening Times 10/23/1927 says she is a graduate of Temple Univ. in Phila. Earlier I had a reference to her graduation at the Peirce School in Phila. She was a member at First Presbyterian Church in Hopewell, Mercer, NJ. Elsie Marion Skillman and Richard E. "Dick" Reed lived at 60 North Greenwood Avenue in Hopewell, Mercer, NJ after 27 April 1927. According to their marriage write-up, they first lived at 60 N. Greenwood Ave., which to the north became the Hopewell Wertsville Rd. My first memories of them was when they were living on the 2nd floor of her parents house at 23 Hart Ave. When I visited I slept in the tower bedroom on the 2nd floor. Later, Dick built a house on the N. side of the road to Blawenburg. He helped me fly kites there. Then he built a house on E. Prospect St. Later a larger house further east on same street. When I visited with my parents, Dick let me learn to drive by lending me his pickup truck. David usually accompanied me. When Elsie died she was laid out in that house. When Elsie was sick with cancer, Anne and I frequently visited her in Pennington hospital on weekends while we lived near Allentown, PA. She had no children of her own, but adopted David and Nancy, both deceased as of 2012. Elsie Marion Skillman-844 and Richard E. "Dick" Reed-843 had the following children:
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