Skelton - James A.
Source: 1881 H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County Indiana
Chicago: HH Hill. p. 419
James A. Skelton, farmer, New Market, was born in Kentucky,
July 30, 1825. At the age of seven years he, with his widowed
mother and her family of six children, emigrated to Brown
township, Montgomery County, Indiana. Soon after she came, not
being able to buy a home for her family, she put them out to be
raised by others, and James, the subject of this sketch, found
his home with Mr. William GOTT, Esq., with whom he lived till the
age of twenty-one years, after which he began for himself by
working out by the month.
This he followed but one year, and
December 12, 1847, he married Miss Rebecca WILKINSON, a native of
Ohio, and born March 4, 1820. She come to this County in 1844.
They have a family of four children, all of whom are married:
Kezia E., wife of William F. BRITTON ; Margery E., wife of Marcus
W. Smith; Margaret A., wife of Henry C. ELLIOTT, and Sarah E. E.,
wife of John W. FAUST, Mr. Skelton is now living on his neat
little home of eighty acres, and engaged in farming. His parents,
Powell and Elizabeth (Gott) Skelton, are dead, his father dying
in Kentucky, and his mother in this County in 1841.
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