Volume 1 Number 2

Fall 1984

Thank You

The Skinner Family Association

The Skinners

Jonathan Skinner, A Soldier of The

American Revolution, Part II

Orange Skinner Bible

What Kind of Family Records

are Needed?

My Skinner Lineage

Genevieve Skinner Copley

My Skinner Lineage

Katherine Twomey

Where’s Thomas From?

A Continuing Saga

An Attempt to Explain the

Computerized List of C.W. Myers

Question of Issue:

Thomas' Title of Sergeant

Index Page

Thanks to William Weiler for transcription of this article.

No title page, Orange Skinner (1) and C. B. Reuben written on inside of cover.

New Testament title page: American Bible Society 1829

Written in two places:

Ama (2) Skiner was born January the 15th 1813

Joseph Skiner was born June the 28th 1814

F(?)rena Skiner was born July the 18th 1816

Reubin Skiner was born September the 5th 1818

P(?)yre Percy Skiner was born July the 24th 1802 (1820 or 1822 ?)

Willis (3) Skiner was born March the 17th 1824

Quartius (4) Skiner was born June the 3rd 1827

Hyrum was born May 24th 1834

Orange Skiner was born April the 2(?)3 1836

1. Orange SKINNER apparently was born 19 Aug. 1791, Lyme, NH and died 19 Jan 1858 near Bancroft, Michigan, the son of Joseph Skinner (1745-1840) (according to the 'Skinner Kinsmen' p 125). Orange Skinner settled in Shiawassee Co. Michigan about 1832.

2. Apparently Ama married Court HUTCHINGS and was living in Bennington twp. Shiawassee Co. Michigan in 1860 (census page 857).

3. A Willis SKINNER was living in Shiawassee twp. Shiawassee Co. Michigan in 1900 (census page 280).

4. A Quartus SKINNER was living in Bennington twp. Shiawassee Co. Michigan in 1850 (census page 68, residence 73).

5. Hyrum SKINNER was born (according to obituary) Cattaraugus Co. New York. He married 21 February 1858 Elizabeth FRIEND in Antrim, Shiawassee Co. Michigan. They lived in Antrim twp. until about 1889 when they moved to Tallman near Lebanon, Linn Co., Oregon. He died there 5 June 1911 and she died 22 April 1915.