| Home Surname List Name Index Sources GEDCOM File Email Us | Sixth Generation487. Thomas T. Skillman was born on 23 July 1786 in Rocky Hill, Montgomery Twp., Somerset, NJ. He emigrated in 1809 from New Jersey. He immigrated in 1809 to Lexington, Fayette, KY. His publications include published by in 1814. In 1814 "Thomas T. Skillman introduced to the religious and literary public the Almoner, but like its unfortunate predecessor it went begging for support within a twelvemonth. (A History of Kentucky by Thomas Dionysius Clark) His publications include Tracts on religious subjects published by in Lexington, Fayette, KY in 1822. Thomas died of cholera on 9 June 1833 at the age of 46 in Lexington, Fayette, KY. Asiatic cholera. His SOA Number is 104. He was an elder at the Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Fayette, KY. He was buried at Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Fayette, KY. He established the "Western Luminary," the first religious newspaper published in the southwest, in Lexington, Ky. to aid in counteracting the strong infidel tendency then manifested in the city... From 1828 to 1833 ninety-one colonization and anti-slavery articles appeared in the columns of...Western Luminary... (History of Lexington) "Thomas T. Skillman founded the first religious newspaper west of the Alleghenies, the Evangelical Record and Western Review, in Lexington in 1812. Skillman later edited the Presbyterian Advocate and the Western Luminary." Elder in the Presbyterian Church and often delegate at the General Assembly; printer and circulator of religious books...(SOA) Middle initial may be G. Thomas T. Skillman and Elizabeth Farrar were married on 5 October 1813 in Fayette Co., KY. Elizabeth Farrar, daughter of Ebenezer Farrar and Martha Mercer, was born in 1786 in New Hampshire. She immigrated in 1789 to Lexington, Fayette, KY. She died on 18 February 1872 at the age of 86 in Lexington, Fayette, KY. Elizabeth was buried at Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Fayette, KY. Surname might be Farrow. From Kentucky Biographies: "Here (Lexington) she became a recognized leader among the women in every good work; was one of the founders of the Lexington Female Bible Society, and was for many years the president of the Lexington Female Benevolent Society. To her husband she was always an efficient co-worker, sharing with him all his trials, and sustaining him by her earnest co-operation in all his plans and aspirations." Thomas T. Skillman-969 and Elizabeth Farrar-1539 had the following children:
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