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Homer SKILES⁽³¹⁶⁾ was born in 1894 in Schuyler Co, IL. He died after 12 Dec 1956. Parents: Jesse F. SKILES and Laura M THOMPSON.

He was married to Bertha LINCOLN about 1915 in Schuyler Co, IL. Children were: Mildred SKILES.

Hopkins SKILES was born after 1776 in <PA>. He died before 1876. Parents: William SKILES and Rachel (SKILES).

Howard SKILES was born on 27 Jul 1898 in Ash Grove, Franklin Co, NE. He died in Mar 1988 in McCook, NE. Parents: Hindman Rhodes SKILES and Stella SPURGIN.

Howard SKILES Parents: James Lawrence SKILES and Wanda L PHILLIPS.

Howard C SKILES was born after 1845 in <PA>. He died before 1945. Parents: Henderson G SKILES and Marha A SNODGRASS.

Hugh M SKILES was born about 1815 in PA. He died before 1915. Parents: Hugh McGuire SKILES and Margaret FLACK.

Hugh McGuire SKILES⁽²²⁾ was born on 6 Jul 1785 in Lancaster Co, PA. He died on 11 Aug 1858 in Legioner, Westmoreland Co, PA. Parents: Harman SKILES and Elizabeth MCGUIRE.

He was married to Margaret FLACK c1812 in PA.⁽²²⁾ Children were: Margaret M SKILES, Jane F SKILES, James Flack SKILES, Hugh M SKILES, Harmon SKILES, Anne N SKILES, Samuel Porter SKILES, Robert Flack SKILES, Elizabeth W SKILES, Mary B SKILES.

He was married to Jeminah MENOHEN on 2 Jan 1855 in Legoneir, Westmoreland Co, PA.⁽³¹⁷⁾

Hugh T SKILES was born on 27 Jan 1812 in <PA>. He died on 27 Jan 1889 in Chester Co., PA. Parents: James SKILES and Sarah (SKILES).

Ida A. SKILES was born in 1865. !Les Clark Lclark@scruznet.com Parents: James Ralston SKILES and Abigail Marilla (Rilly) WILMOT .

INFANT SKILES⁽³⁶⁾ was born in 1878 in Schuyler Co, IL. Parents: James Franklin SKILES and Elizabeth Catherine SHERRILL.

Infant SKILES was born in 1889. He died in 1889. Parents: George Sheldon (Durg) SKILES and Lucinda SCHRODER .

Isaac SKILES was born in 1789. References: Somerset Wills (liber E.B.#9, folio 20, Somerset Birth & Marriages (Genealogical Society microfilm), Torrence's book (Pages 436-458) and Somerset deeds. Parents: Jacob SKILES and Martha (SKILES).

Isaac SKILES was born after 1750. He died before 1850. Parents: Peter SKILES and Elizabeth SCARRY.

Isaac SKILES was born in 1828 in Indiana Co, PA. Parents: Ephraim SKILES and Mary ROGERS.

Isaac SKILES was born on 25 Jun 1862 in Pequea, Lancaster Co, PA. He died on 27 Apr 1866 in Pequea, Lancaster Co, PA. Parents: Amos Clemson SKILES and Elizabeth (SKILES).

Jacob SKILES⁽⁵⁰⁾ was born in 1764 in Manokin, Somerset Co, MD. References: Somerset Wills (liber E.B.#9, folio 20, Somerset Birth & Marriages (Genealogical Society microfilm), Torrence's book (Pages 436-458) and Somerset deeds. Parents: JOHN SKILES and Elizabeth (Lizzie).

He was married to Martha (SKILES). Children were: Isaac SKILES .

Jacob SKILES⁽²³²⁾ was born on 1 Nov 1814 in Jackson Co., TN. He died on 12 Mar 1881 in Sullivan, MO. 1860 census pg 384 family #2522 Rushville Twp, Schuyler Co, IL. Skils & Morgan's settled in Lincoln Co, (20 miles south of Cushing, OK, in about 1896. They all went to LaCygne, KS in 1908 or 1909 for a short time but came back to OK. Parents: William SKILES and Lydia CHADWELL .

He was married to Mary Ellen PEAK on 29 Apr 1839 in Industry, McDonough Co, IL. Children were: Thomas SKILES, Lydia SKILES, Anna SKILES, Bartlow SKILES, Barton SKILES, John V SKILES, Joel Levi SKILES, Carmon R SKILES, Estella Gertrude SKILES, Nancy Elisabeth SKILES .

Jacob SKILES was born after 1765. He died before 1865. Parents: John SKILES and Mary DOBBINS.

Jacob SKILES was born after 1770. He died before 1870. Parents: James SKILES and Margaret DEVERS.

He was married to Catherine DOBBINS c1791. Children were: Jacob Dobbins SKILES.

Jacob SKILES⁽³⁰⁶⁾ was born in 1805 in TN. Parents: William SKILES and Elizabeth MILLER.

He was married to Susannah HIXSON on 26 Mar 1839 in Greene Co, TN.⁽³¹⁸⁾ It is assumbed that Susanna is a second wife. First wife's name unk. Children were: Rebecca SKILES, John SKILES, Nancy SKILES, Elizabeth SKILES, William SKILES, George Washington SKILES, Ephraim SKILES, Mary SKILES, Susannah SKILES, Jacob SKILES, Jane SKILES.

Jacob SKILES was born in 1846 in Bledsoe Co, TN. Parents: Jacob SKILES and Susannah HIXSON.

Jacob Dobbins SKILES was born in 1792. He died in 1875. Parents: Jacob SKILES and Catherine DOBBINS.

He was married to Jane GRAHAM on 15 Apr 1815.

James SKILES⁽²²⁾ was born in 1737 in Lancaster Co, PA. He died before 1837. Parents: Henry SKILES and Catherine (SKILES).

He was married to Margaret DEVERS.

James SKILES⁽²²⁾ was born in 1740 in Lancaster Co, PA. He died in 1814 in Allegheny Co, PA.⁽²²⁾ James received land from his father in Rowan Co, N.C., which he later sold and returned to PA. He served in the Revolutionary War from Lancaster and Cumberland Cos. Resided at Guilford in Cumberland Co., Wheatfield in Westmoreland Co., Indiana Co.m and finally in Allagheny Co. Parents: Henry SKILES Jr and Rosannah DOBBINS.

He was married to Margaret DEVERS on 5 Jul 1770 in St James Church, Lancaster Co, PA.⁽²²⁾⁽³¹⁹⁾ Children were: John SKILES, Jacob SKILES, Ella SKILES.

James SKILES was born after 1745. He died before 1845. Parents: Harmon SKILES and Margaret (SKILES).

James SKILES was born after 1776 in <PA>. He signed a will on 3 Feb 1854 in Chester Co., PA.⁽³²⁰⁾ He died about 1855 in PA. Parents: William SKILES and Rachel (SKILES).

He was married to Sarah (SKILES) about 1800 in <PA>. Children were: Harmon SKILES , Jane SKILES, Sylvester H SKILES, Rachel SKILES, William SKILES, Hugh T SKILES.

James SKILES (Private). Parents: James M SKILES and Cynthia Asberine TRACY.

James SKILES was born on 14 Apr 1850 in <PA>. He died on 24 May 1912. Parents: Harmon SKILES and Lydia LAWRENCE .

James SKILES was born about 1779 in Lancaster Co, PA. Parents: Henry SKILES and Jane CLEMSON.

James SKILES Parents: William SKILES and Jane (SKILES).

James Allen SKILES⁽³²¹⁾ was born on 14 Mar 1866 in Browning Twnshp, Schuyler Co, IL. He died on 4 Mar 1956 in Rushville, Schuyler Co, IL. Parents: William Carl SKILES and Margaret Jane PIERCE.

He was married to Rosa STAMBAUGH about 1886 in IL. Children were: Daisy Margaret SKILES, Donald SKILES, Dorothy SKILES, Johnny SKILES, Lester SKILES, Henry SKILES, Monroe SKILES, Charles SKILES.

James Clemson SKILES was born on 27 Feb 1812 in Lancaster Co, PA. He died on 23 Sep 1822. Parents: Henry SKILES and Rebecca LYTLE.

James Clemson SKILES was born on 15 Sep 1822 in Lancaster Co, PA. He died on 10 Jul 1853 in Lancaster Co, PA. Named after sibling that died the week after his birth. Parents: Henry SKILES and Rebecca LYTLE.

James Flack SKILES was born in 1813 in Lancaster Co, PA. He died in 1894 in Allegheny Co, PA. Parents: Hugh McGuire SKILES and Margaret FLACK.

James Franklin SKILES⁽³⁶⁾ was born on 13 Aug 1857 in Browning Twnshp, Schuyler Co, IL. He died in 1920. He was buried in 1920 in Oak Grove Cem., Beardstown, Cass Co., IL. He has reference number p. 30,45. Farmer. Burial Oak Grove Cem. Beardstown, Cass,IL Parents: Thomas Jefferson SKILES and Nancy Ann WHALEN.

He was married to Elizabeth Catherine SHERRILL on 19 Jun 1879 in Schuyler Co, IL.⁽³⁶⁾ Children were: Rosa Lee SKILES, INFANT SKILES, Mertie SKILES, Clarence Raymond SKILES, Blanche SKILES, Zelma SKILES, James Lawrence SKILES, Lillian SKILES, Claude Clyde Norman SKILES.

James H SKILES was born about 1835 in IL. Parents: Harvey/Henry SKILES and Lettie D JUSTUS.

James Henderson SKILES was born on 18 Jun 1792 in <PA>. He died before 1892. Parents: Thomas SKILES and Elizabeth HENDERSON.

James Lawrence SKILES⁽³⁶⁾ was born on 16 Jul 1892 in Schuyler Co, IL. He died on 2 Jun 1965 in Rushville Cem., Schuyler Co., IL. source: Cem records on Rootsweb, GoodHope Cem in Rushville. Parents: James Franklin SKILES and Elizabeth Catherine SHERRILL.

He was married to Wanda L PHILLIPS about 1913 in Rushville, Schuyler Co, IL. Children were: Harold SKILES, Howard SKILES.

James M SKILES⁽²⁰⁾⁽³⁶⁾⁽³²²⁾⁽³²³⁾ was born on 25 Dec 1838 in Ray Station, Schuyler Co, IL.⁽⁸⁾ He died on 6 May 1919 in Holdrege, Phelps Co, NE.⁽⁸⁾ He has reference number pn p. 96. Occupation: Store keeper in Ray Station

!1880 Census in Phelps Co., NE 40 years
a store keeper in Ray Station, Schuyler Co, IL for 7 years.
Resided in Laird Twp., Phelps Co, NE about 1879.
Civil War: enlisted 22 Mar 1862, Corporal 3rd Missouri Cavalry.
Mustered out in Mar 1865, Little Rock, AR
! Schuyler Co. Historical Museum, Rushville, Schuyler Co, IL "Biographical
Souvenir of the counties of Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, and Franklin, NE.
F.A. Battey & Co., 1890. Pages 673-674

Ara Sanders has provided this information on James M. Skiles. The story below was told to her by Floyd "Pete"
Skiles. For additional information on the Skiles family, write Ara at 13956 Sande Lane, Grass Valley, CA
95945.

"This story about James M. Skiles was written by an older cousin of mine who he loved to listen to the old tales and went with his father to visit the older Uncles."

AS TOLD BY FLOYD "PETE" SKILES

"Jim" was an old Calvary man and homesteaded four miles west of Holdrege. After the war was over, he came west and had some money, so he homesteaded a quarter-section of land. I guess as far as anybody knows, he built the first good frame house that was ever built in Phelps County. He put a new 4 room frame house on that homestead. He was in Sheridan's Calvary outfit and spent 6 years with them. He entered with a four year
enlistment and his re-enlistment turned up in the middle of the war so he enlisted for the duration of the war in the Seventh Calvary. He was pretty well acquainted with George Custer who was killed on the Big Horn up in Montana in 1776 in the Sioux war. I don't remember his wife's name outside of "Aunt Stincy". She was a nice old lady. He came home from the war and was a finished Gambler. He really learned the gambling business and he said when he came home from the war that he had given six years of his life to his country and the citizens of the United States and they owed him eleven. If they didn't think he did, he would just play poker with them and convince them they did owe his a living. He was a pretty fast gambler, smooth with cards and that's the way he made his living in life. He lived to be an old man. To me he was a nice old guy. I remember going to see him with the folks when he lived there in Holdrege, Nebraska, when he moved off the farm. I used to like to
sit on his knee or sit on the side of the chair and he would tell me big blood and thunder stories, you know about the Civil War and one thing or another. I really thought he was some old boy and I guess he was really, when you come right down to it.

He said the county had just been newly organized and the Sheriff wanted to go back east so he just resigned his office and went. This old Uncle Jim, the Calvary man, was pretty well known around there and had a reputation and figured they would appoint him to fill the vacancy for the County Sheriff until they had their regular election.

A couple fellows came through the country with 15 or 20 head of horses with them and they were trading and buying and selling horses. Moses, Jim's brother, had seen some circular, either in the post office or around the courthouse when he (Moses) was barbering on weekends at Phelps Center, the county seat. He said the county seat was about seven miles north of Holdrege and about four or five miles west. Moses Skiles was suspicions
of these fellows as he shaved and cut their hair. He went and told "Uncle Jim", he believed these fellows were the couple they were advertising for way down southeast of Kansas. So "Uncle Jim" made a few inquiries around and found out they had taken quarters, where the sheriff had moved away from. His buildings were empty and they had just moved into a half dugout and then had sod laid on top. There was a little corral out there and they had just moved in for a spell. Jim, investigated the thing and that night went out and waited. That
morning when the sun came up, "Uncle Jim" was up on the roof of the dugout with a double barreled shotgun full of buckshot. When these guys came out of the house and started down toward where the horses picketed. He told them to take their guns and belts off and throw them down. He said, "I have a couple of loads of buckshot here and I'd just as soon use them on you fellows as anyone else I know of". So they dropped their guns and Jim
arrested them and took them with him. He hand cuffed them and walked them into the store about three miles away. They didn't have any jail except for a kind of building they were using for the courthouse and the closest jail was about 50 miles away.

"Uncle Jim" says, "Well, heck I'll just take them home with me and keep them until the Sheriff comes after them or tells me what to do with them." He did and when he got them home, he found out they played poker. He found out they had five or six hundred dollars so he played poker with them until he got all their money. He would shackle their two legs together in bed at night when they laid down to sleep and hand cuffed one arm on each
one of them around the bedpost and they would rest up for awhile, have something to eat and go back to playing poker again. He got all their money, guns, belts and saddles. When the sheriff came up, there was nothing left except the men. They told him the saddles were stolen so he took them as stolen property so Jim did lose the saddles. The story got out about him beating those fellows out of their money in a poker game while they were his prisoners. A fellow around Williamsburg, ran for sheriff against "Uncle Jim" and he only received three votes. "I guess those people from Phelps county decided they didn't want a sheriff who sat around playing poker with the prisoners when he had them in Jail."

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JAMES M. SKILES
(25 Dec 1839 - 7 May 1919)

James M. Skiles came to Phelps County, Nebraska in 1879 from Schuyler County, Ill. He married Cynthia Tracy the 20 Apr 1865 in Illinois and together they raised nine children. He is one of many Civil War Veterans who came to Nebraska to homestead. He and his wife and other family members are buried at Prairie Home Cemetery in Holdrege, NE.
. Parents: MOSES JUSTUS SKILES and Mary (Polly) LUTTRELL.

He was married to Cynthia Asberine TRACY on 20 Apr 1865 in Hickory twp, Schuyler Co, IL. Children were: Mary Ann SKILES, Thomas Logan SKILES, Augustus SKILES, Arminda Rose SKILES, Dora SKILES, Frederick SKILES, Luther B SKILES, Arcadia SKILES, James SKILES.

James Ralston SKILES⁽²⁰⁾⁽⁵⁰⁾ was born on 17 Feb 1818 in Wayne Co, MO.⁽⁵⁰⁾ Also have birth place as Wayne Co, MO He died on 5 May 1909 in KS or NE. He has reference number pn p. 96. At first wife's death (Eliza), had 5 children ages 1 to 5 yrs.
Had 7 children with second wife Rilly. Parents: GEORGE M SKILES and MARY ANN (Polly) JUSTUS.

He was married to Louisa "Elizabeth Ann" RENO on 3 Oct 1844 in Hickory twp, Schuyler Co, IL. Children were: Moses Justus SKILES, Charity Jane SKILES, George Washington SKILES, Savannah SKILES.

He was married to Abigail Marilla (Rilly) WILMOT on 4 Dec 1851. Children were: Mary Elizabeth SKILES , Lewis Bryan SKILES, Sarah SKILES, Ida A. SKILES, William C. SKILES.

James Spires SKILES was born in 1844 in Wheatfield, Indiana Co, PA. Parents: Ephraim SKILES and Mary SPIRES.

He was married to Elizabeth Louise STEVE about 1878 in Troy Grove, IL. Children were: William Vernon SKILES.

James Wilson SKILES was born about 1845 in <PA>. He died before 1945 in <PA>. Parents: Henderson G SKILES and Marha A SNODGRASS.

Jane SKILES⁽²²⁾ died before 1840. She was born c1745. Second marrage to James Dunlap. Parents: Henry SKILES Jr and Rosannah DOBBINS.

She was married to Andrew LYTLE on 24 May 1770 in St James Church, Lancaster Co, PA.⁽²²⁾⁽²⁹⁾

Jane SKILES was born after 1800 in <PA>. She died before 1900. Parents: James SKILES and Sarah (SKILES) .

She was married to John WAGONER c1820 in Pequea, Lancaster Co, PA.

Jane SKILES was born after 1765. She died before 1865. Parents: John SKILES and Mary DOBBINS.

She was married to John GRAHAM on 24 Feb 1796 in Rowan Co, NC.⁽²²⁾

Jane SKILES was born in 1849 in Bledsoe Co, TN. Parents: Jacob SKILES and Susannah HIXSON.

Jane SKILES Parents: William SKILES and Elizabeth MILLER.

She was married to Jonas HOLT on 23 May 1839 in Greene Co, TN.⁽²⁹⁾

Jane Clemson SKILES was born on 26 Oct 1802. She died on 1 Sep 1889. Parents: Henry SKILES and Rebecca LYTLE.

Jane F SKILES was born after 1812 in PA. She died before 1912. Parents: Hugh McGuire SKILES and Margaret FLACK.

Janeen Marcel SKILES (Private). Parents: Benjamin Butler SKILES and Jean Ethal TROTTER.

She was married to Lewis KILPATRICK in 1966 in Abingdon, Knox Co, IL.

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