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Sarah Skinner

Birth: 23 Oct 1740
Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
Death: 23 Mar 1832 (aged 91)
Perry County, Ohio, USA
Burial: Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery

Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 39.82518, Longitude: -82.25087
Memorial ID: 5599791 View Source

Sarah was the second wife of Rev. John Skinner.∼Sarah's maiden name is simply not known.

It was not Higgins, Francis or King.

Jersey Church records show that Thomas King, his wife (Nancy) Ann and her mother, Sarah Skinner (widow of Reuben) asked for their letter of dis-mission from the church Oct 17, 1817. -- She lived with her son-in-law.∼
Sarah is the daughter of Thomas and Ann King. She married Reuben Skinner about 1756. They migrated from NJ to PA to form the "Jersey Settlement".

Their children were: Mary, Nathaniel, James, Joseph, Nancy Ann, Samuel, Phoebe, Richard, and Reuben.
Sarah and her parents asked the church for letters of dismission and they moved to Perry Co., OH in 1817. Sarah Skinner came to Perry Co. in about 1817 with her son-in-law Thomas King and daughter Nancy Ann (Skinner) King. Reuben stayed on in PA.

Sarah was the second wife of Rev. John Skinner.∼Sarah's maiden name is simply not known.

It was not Higgins, Francis or King.

Jersey Church records show that Thomas King, his wife (Nancy) Ann and her mother, Sarah Skinner (widow of Reuben) asked for their letter of dis-mission from the church Oct 17, 1817. -- She lived with her son-in-law.∼
Sarah is the daughter of Thomas and Ann King. She married Reuben Skinner about 1756. They migrated from NJ to PA to form the "Jersey Settlement".

Their children were: Mary, Nathaniel, James, Joseph, Nancy Ann, Samuel, Phoebe, Richard, and Reuben.
Sarah and her parents asked the church for letters of dismission and they moved to Perry Co., OH in 1817. Sarah Skinner came to Perry Co. in about 1817 with her son-in-law Thomas King and daughter Nancy Ann (Skinner) King. Reuben stayed on in PA.

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SARAH SKINNER
departed this life March
23rd AD 1832 in the 93rd
Year of her age.

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Weathered and now only partially legible (Transcript compared with records taken in the 1930/40')s.
Original photo 2008, by Bob Bigham.

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Created by: Kit and Morgan Benson
Added: Jul 8, 2001
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5599791/sarah-skinner: accessed ), memorial page for Sarah Skinner (23 Oct 1740–23 Mar 1832), Find a Grave Memorial ID 5599791, citing Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery, Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Kit and Morgan Benson (contributor 46483611).

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