- Birth: 22 MAY 1860, ,Putnam,IL
- Death: 27 OCT 1954, Everett,,WA,General Hospital
- Burial: Everett,,WA,Evergreen Cem
Father: William Andrew SKINNER
Mother: Priscilla HENSLEY
Family 1:
Anna Maria MORGAN
- Marriage: 13 APR 1884, ,Freemont,IA
- Lilly May SKINNER
- William Lewis SKINNER
- John Leroy SKINNER
- Henry Alfred SKINNER
- Benny SKINNER
- Ezra Seth SKINNER
Family 2:
Lucy Virginia SCHOLL
Family 3:
Mary BRIBO
- Marriage: 27 JUL 1914, Everett,Snohomish,WA
Family 4:
Emma Ann JENTRIA
- Marriage: 28 AUG 1920, Chehalis,,WA
_Joseph SKINNER _
_Benjamin SKINNER _|_Martha KINNE ___
_Jeptha SKINNER _|
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| |_Millicent - ______|_________________
_Benjamin SKINNER ____|
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| | _Lazarus GRIFFITH _|_________________
| |_Mary GRIFFETH __|
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| |_Hannah ___________|_________________
_William Andrew SKINNER _|
| | _Thomas PERRIN __
| | _Thomas PERRIN ____|_Sarah PHELPS ___
| | _Thomas PERRIN __|
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| | | |_Jerusha PORTER ___|_________________
| |_Emily Debrah PERRIN _|
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| |_Elizabeth ______|
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|--John Henry SKINNER
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| _Thomas HENSLEY ______|
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|_Priscilla HENSLEY ______|
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|_Elzibeth ____________|
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INDEX
Notes
!Š..Skinner, Todd (09/2001)
Source; Marriage Certificate Chehalis Washington (Emma Wilson);
" " " " Everett Washington (Mary Desgarden);
Obituary - Everett Herald Everett Washington;
Birth from family records;
Death from death certificate Snohomish County, Washington;
Marriages- Freemont County-Iowa 1869-1885 Book 4;
Conversations between John Henry Skinner and Clyde Skinner in 1953.
Marriages--Freemomt County, Iowa---1869-1885---Book 3
John Henry was placed in the home of a Drake family after his mother
Priscilla died in 1863. His father brought him home when he was about ten
years old to the home in Hamburg, Iowa.
John went back to Nebraska after his wife Lucy died .He tried farming again
but returned to Washington state after a few years.
As a small boy John remembers that his dad took him and Jeptha to hear
Abraham Lincoln speak at Hennipin, Illinois. Says that Lincoln was a homely
man witha silk hat.
After his mother died John remembers how his father took he and William
in to see their mother. She lay in a room in the house, a window to the east.
His dad pulled down the sheet and said to the boys "There boys is your
mothed- she is dead."
John was named after John The Baptist.
William, John Henry and Jephtha were the young men at home with William
Andrew their father in Nebraska City. William Andrew told the boys to go
out and get a job. John Henry got a job up in Cass County, on a farm making
$16.00 per month. He stayed two years. info from-- John Henry himself
John went back to Nebraska after his wife Lucy died .He tried farming again
but returned to Washington state after a few years.
John worked for the burlington Railroad for many years. He started out as
an engine wiper in Nebraska City, Nebraska at $42.50 per month. Then he
fired the engines , made $66.00 per month, and was later an engineer
making $110.00 per month. His route was from McCook to Nebraska City.
Had a wreck while an engineer. Just south of Minersville a whole section of
track sliced into the river. John stopped the engine just at the edge. It took
two weeks to repair the track.
Nebraska City a distance of 110 miles. The tremble of the engines hurt his
kidneys so bad that he eventualy had to give it up. This was in the days
befor automatic couplings. In these days the"brakies" ran across the tops
of the rail cars and hand set the brakes.
His first child, William Lewis Skinner was born while he was working for the
railroad.
When he married Anna in 1884 he had to get his parents permission before
a marriage license was issued.
John went back to Nebraska after his wife Lucy died .He tried farming
again but returned to Washington state after a few years.
Lived with his third wife Mary Bribo for about two years befor he found out
that she was not divorced from her first husband.
Married Emma in Chehalis Washington.( Emma was the widow of his brother
William Franklin Skinner)
John built a swinging bridge across the Pilchuck River( Snohomish County,
Washington) to give him quick access to some of his property that was on
the other side. Owned this land between 1917-1935 it was aprox 3 miles
from Granite Falls, Washington.
John was fondly remembered by his great grandchildren as, the nice old
man who would give them a silver dollar when they visited him.
John was known as very independent and stubborn, at the age of 89 he
was found on top of his house fixing his roof rather than ask help of his
sons.
JOHN HENRY'S STORIES
1. About Bert markleys hair lip. When Emily was carrying Bert, uncle Harve
had a balky horse andhe beat the harst over the head with a neck yoke and
the horses nose was bleeding. Aunt Emily saw it - clasped her hand over her
mouth and Bert was born with a hair lip.
2. About the squirt gun at the school house. Layed under the floor and
squirted water under the floor through a knot hole up under an older girls
dress. Later a teacher caught me and tanned my hide propper.
3. I was farmed out to a Drake family at the age of three after my mother
died. I helped the old lady when she worked on the loom and made carpets
and wove cloth.
4. Some of the older boys took me coon hunting. I had to climb up the tree
and poke at the coon until it fell down and the the dogs did the rest. I fell
but got caught by the lower branches.
5. The same boys got me to poke a hornets nest off of a limb and then I
ran. One of the hornets hit me in the forehead and I dropped right now.
6. I got birthmarked on the side with a big beef steak. My mother saw a big
beef steak that grandpa had brought home.
7. Steamboat Accident- Flatboat he was on was to heavily loaded, the boat
hit a snag between Nebraska City and Kansas City. The boat listed, filled
with water. this put a strain on the smoke stack, a rod came loose, swung
around and hit me in the head knocking me out and fracturing my skull. I
was saved by members of the crew who drug me to shore. The boat was
full of wheat and hogs. The wheat sank and the hogs swam to the shore. I
was taken to a hospital in Kansas City. The steamboat company payed for
the hospital and my way home.
8. Tom and I went fishing for catfish, we were short of bait and I baited a
big hook with a bisket we had for supper. It took us both a long time to land
the catfish, it weighed 75 pounds.
9. Said that when he was a boy - when a shoemaker would come around and
make shoes for the entire family. If you didn't have tanned hides then he
would trade for green ones.
10. Remembers that his father wouldn't buy the girls hoops for their
skirts. The girls got William and he to go cut grape vines and they made
hoops for themselves.
11 The charivori- The gang came when he was married. The crowed came
late after dark. He jumped out of bed and joined the crowd with a big wash
tub. He beat it and yelled and after awhile he told the boys to all come in
and have some treats. After they played cards. James the leader said lets
put them to bed. They put Anna to bed but when they started on John he
sent one of them spinning to the other side of the house. Then Jim said lets
let him alone.
12. It was the style for woman of those days to have small thin waists. His
sister Elizabeth girted herself up until her brother Ben could span around
her waist with his two hands. The girls were very proud.
13." Blast your infernal picture" was a favorite expression of his fathers.
14." Mighty Donnie" was a surprise expression.
15. John tells about when he was a young man he grew a mustache that he
could curl over and around
his ears. He said that if one would have his whiskers trimmed or worked
over by a pregnant woman ones hair would naturaly grow long.
16. They would shuck the corn and then snap it and throw it in a heap on
the long barn floor. Then stakes would be driven in the top of the corn and
in the shucking bee the way the stakes tumbled. When a boy found a red
ear of corn he was to kiss a girl. In the summer time they used a big dutch
kettle to cook the corn in the yard. In the winter they used the fireplace.
17. John was the second husband of Anna Maria. Her first husband was
sent to the pen for bigamy. All of Johns wives were previously married.
18. John first fell in love with Belle a sister of Anna's. She turned on him.
More About John Henry Skinner:
Burial: October 27, 1954, Evergreen Cemetery, Everett, Washington.
Occupation: Farmer and Burlington Railroad employee
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Henry Skinner.
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