Eighth Generation

3460. Joseph Van Marter "John" Skillman was born on 10 April 1882 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY. The 1920 census puts his age at 34, or b.c. 1886. He lived Somerville Rd N of Brand Rd in Bridgewater, Somerset, NJ on 1 January 1920. He died on 20 June 1928 at the age of 46 in Delmar, NY. John was buried in Troy, Rensselaer, NY.

Joseph Van Marter "John" Skillman and Fannie Wyckoff Williams were married on 20 January 1906. Fannie Wyckoff Williams, daughter of Peter Williams and Maria Louisa Wyckoff, was born on 22 December 1883.

Joseph Van Marter "John" Skillman-8472 and Fannie Wyckoff Williams-8474 had the following children:

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Earl Chilson Skillman-8493.

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Enola/Eurla Skillman was born on 29 August 1909 in Burnt Mills, NJ. She died on 4 September 1928 at the age of 19 in North Branch, Somerset, NJ. Teacher Ends Life With Pistol In Auto: Body Is Found in Car Near Home in North Branch, N.J. - Mohter Lays Act to Melancholia.

Somerville, N.J., September 5 - Miss Enola Skillman of North Branch, five miles west of here, who was to have started teaching school at Bedminister this morning, committed suicide late yesterday afternoon by shooting herself through the head with a bullet from a 25 cailbre german automatic pistol. She is the second New Jersey school teacher to commit suicide within a week. Last Wednesday Miss Hulda Schulz, 22 years old, principal of the schol a t Ringoes, N.J., took her own life by drinking poison.

Miss Skillman was found sitting in her Buick coupe at the side of the North Branch - Pluckemin road, about half a mile form the main highway and a half mile from her home. A letter, addressed to mother, was found on the seat of the car. Mrs. Fannie Skillman, the mother, after reading the letter said that she was satisfied that her daughter had taken her life while suffering from melancholia.

The pistol was clasped in the young woman's right hand. the bullet had entered her head in the right temple and taken a downward course to come out of the neck back of the left ear. It was found in the uphoistery of the car.

Miss Skillman, who was 20 years old, was graduated from Somerville High School in 1926 and from the Newark Normal School last Spring. The Bedminister School was to have been her first place as a teacher. NYT September 6, 1928, P. 15:3

Lillian Hamann (private).