The youngest child of Thompson Bailey and (Isabel) Elizabeth Bailey, of Mercer county, WV. She was the sister of Mary Virginia Bailey Taylor, of Mercer county, also the half sister of Kyle William Bailey, Cyrus M. Bailey, Martella Bailey Shrewsbury, and Martha Bailey McComas - and Peter Minor, William Preston Minor, Samuel Minor, Sarah Minor Taylor, Louisa Minor Collins, and Amanda Minor Scott Burchett.
The 1880 census of Mercer county, WV has her name as "Ammity".

Arminta married Oliver Skaggs in Mercer county, Wv, in 1886. Oliver was the son of Jesse and Mary, born in Fayette county,WV, and a carpenter residing in Mercer county at that time. The marriage was performed by J.B. Greever on 24 November.

Of her children:
from West Virginia birth records,

15 July 1888 N. G. Skaggs, female, born Mercer county.
8 June 1890 Jeff M. Skaggs, male, born Mercer county.
15 Sept 1895 Fannie Elizabeth Skaggs, female, born Mercer.
10 Mar 1898 Geo. E. Skaggs, male, born Mercer, at Duhring.
~later census gives name as Earl G.

Born in Idaho, Harry, Dwight, and Lloyd Skaggs.
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The Oregon death record, kindly supplied by one of our fine members (she did not wish to be named but THANKS TO HER), has her father written in as "Silas Bailey" (possibly her brother Cyrus, and may have been a mistake on the part of the informant. He would have been a child of six years at the time of Arminta's birth).
Her marriage record gave her parents as Thompson & Elizabeth, and she was included with their household as daughter in the Mercer county census of 1880). Her name is spelled "Araminta" in some records, but as the informant for her husband's death record, she placed her name as "Arminta", and her own death record has it as "Arminta", the informant Fanny Da Metz.
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An obituary was printed in the Portland Oregonian on Thursday, May 7, 1942, page 16. Services were on May 8, at Peake Funeral Home, Milwaukie.