Notes for William SKIDMORE
Information from Timothy M. Blomquist, e-mail: tblomquist@@cyberport.com,Rutherford/Mitchell Families, (web page - http://www.cyberport.com/~tblomquist/- October 1999) - William Skidmore, born 16 April 1823 at Newcastle,Henry County, Kentucky. He married 1stly Lucinda Mitchell on 16 December 1846 at Nashville in Hamblen Township, Brown County, Indiana, and 2ndly (late in life) Martha Belle Brinkerhoff Hay, a retired schoolteacher. (She was born in January 1832 and living as his widow in1910). He served in Company I, 79th Indiana Infantry in the Civil War enlisting for three years on 14 August 1862 at Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana , at the age of 39 as a Corporal. About 18 September 1862 while on a march through Louisville , Kentucky, he received a severe sunstroke which caused him to collapse. He was discharged on 4 December 1862 and pensioned in 1867. He and his family went after the war to Unity Township, Piatt County, Illinois, where they were living in1870. They had moved by 1880 to Humboldt Township, Coles County, Illinois. His widow Martha B. Skidmore was added to the pension rolls in 1901. He died on 21 November 1901 at Pierson Station, Piatt County, Illinois and is buried in the Mackville Cemetery.
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