Defiance Democrat - February 26, 1880
AN OLD PIONEER GONE – Dead on Monday evening, February 23rd, 1880, Mrs. Nellie SKIVER, aged nearly 111 years. Mrs. Skiver has been a resident of Defiance county for over forty years, and was the mother of eight children, six of whom are now living. Although the old family record has been lost, it appears from great evidence gathered from herself and others, that she was born in Rockingham County, Va. on Easter Sunday, 1769; she was seven years old when the Declaration of Independence was made. She distinctly remembered many incidents of the Revolution, when it was an unbroken wilderness, and notwithstanding the many hardships of the pioneer life, has never known what it was to be sick. She lost the use of her eyes almost twenty years ago from a cataract; but otherwise has enjoyed the use of her faculties, her mind being clear to the day of her death. Her descendants, of whom there is a large number living, are residents of Defiance County. The funeral services were conducted at the home of Mr. Isaac Skiver by Rev. B. W. Slagle.
From History of Defiance Co. OH:
. . .concluded to locate here and settled down on Section 19, of Highland Twp., atwhich place the parents died - Mr. [Daniel/David?] Skiver [b. bef 1785 in NJ
d. 1870 Highland Twp., Defiance Co., Ohio]in 1870, age 67,and Mrs. Skiver (being very much older than her husband, yet
she outlived him about ten years) February 23, 1880, age nearly 111.
AN OLD PIONEER GONE – Dead on Monday evening, February 23rd, 1880, Mrs. Nellie SKIVER, aged nearly 111 years. Mrs. Skiver has been a resident of Defiance county for over forty years, and was the mother of eight children, six of whom are now living. Although the old family record has been lost, it appears from great evidence gathered from herself and others, that she was born in Rockingham County, Va. on Easter Sunday, 1769; she was seven years old when the Declaration of Independence was made. She distinctly remembered many incidents of the Revolution, when it was an unbroken wilderness, and notwithstanding the many hardships of the pioneer life, has never known what it was to be sick. She lost the use of her eyes almost twenty years ago from a cataract; but otherwise has enjoyed the use of her faculties, her mind being clear to the day of her death. Her descendants, of whom there is a large number living, are residents of Defiance County. The funeral services were conducted at the home of Mr. Isaac Skiver by Rev. B. W. Slagle.
From History of Defiance Co. OH:
. . .concluded to locate here and settled down on Section 19, of Highland Twp., atwhich place the parents died - Mr. [Daniel/David?] Skiver [b. bef 1785 in NJ
d. 1870 Highland Twp., Defiance Co., Ohio]in 1870, age 67,and Mrs. Skiver (being very much older than her husband, yet
she outlived him about ten years) February 23, 1880, age nearly 111.
Defiance Democrat - February 26, 1880
AN OLD PIONEER GONE – Dead on Monday evening, February 23rd, 1880, Mrs. Nellie SKIVER, aged nearly 111 years. Mrs. Skiver has been a resident of Defiance county for over forty years, and was the mother of eight children, six of whom are now living. Although the old family record has been lost, it appears from great evidence gathered from herself and others, that she was born in Rockingham County, Va. on Easter Sunday, 1769; she was seven years old when the Declaration of Independence was made. She distinctly remembered many incidents of the Revolution, when it was an unbroken wilderness, and notwithstanding the many hardships of the pioneer life, has never known what it was to be sick. She lost the use of her eyes almost twenty years ago from a cataract; but otherwise has enjoyed the use of her faculties, her mind being clear to the day of her death. Her descendants, of whom there is a large number living, are residents of Defiance County. The funeral services were conducted at the home of Mr. Isaac Skiver by Rev. B. W. Slagle.
From History of Defiance Co. OH:
. . .concluded to locate here and settled down on Section 19, of Highland Twp., atwhich place the parents died - Mr. [Daniel/David?] Skiver [b. bef 1785 in NJ
d. 1870 Highland Twp., Defiance Co., Ohio]in 1870, age 67,and Mrs. Skiver (being very much older than her husband, yet
she outlived him about ten years) February 23, 1880, age nearly 111.
AN OLD PIONEER GONE – Dead on Monday evening, February 23rd, 1880, Mrs. Nellie SKIVER, aged nearly 111 years. Mrs. Skiver has been a resident of Defiance county for over forty years, and was the mother of eight children, six of whom are now living. Although the old family record has been lost, it appears from great evidence gathered from herself and others, that she was born in Rockingham County, Va. on Easter Sunday, 1769; she was seven years old when the Declaration of Independence was made. She distinctly remembered many incidents of the Revolution, when it was an unbroken wilderness, and notwithstanding the many hardships of the pioneer life, has never known what it was to be sick. She lost the use of her eyes almost twenty years ago from a cataract; but otherwise has enjoyed the use of her faculties, her mind being clear to the day of her death. Her descendants, of whom there is a large number living, are residents of Defiance County. The funeral services were conducted at the home of Mr. Isaac Skiver by Rev. B. W. Slagle.
From History of Defiance Co. OH:
. . .concluded to locate here and settled down on Section 19, of Highland Twp., atwhich place the parents died - Mr. [Daniel/David?] Skiver [b. bef 1785 in NJ
d. 1870 Highland Twp., Defiance Co., Ohio]in 1870, age 67,and Mrs. Skiver (being very much older than her husband, yet
she outlived him about ten years) February 23, 1880, age nearly 111.
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