Susannah SKAGGS

Female 1829 -


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Susannah SKAGGS was born 11 Aug 1829 (daughter of William SKAGGS and Lindsey MEREDITH).

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Generation: 2

  1. 2.  William SKAGGS was born 18 Nov 1797 (son of Aaron SKAGGS and Sarah Lyon).

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    Three of the children were born in Edmonson Co., KY.

    William married Lindsey MEREDITH. Lindsey (daughter of Joseph Abraham MEREDITH, Sr. and Nancy SKAGGS) was born 1798, Green Co. KY; died 1837, Edmonson Co. KY. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Lindsey MEREDITH was born 1798, Green Co. KY (daughter of Joseph Abraham MEREDITH, Sr. and Nancy SKAGGS); died 1837, Edmonson Co. KY.

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    Three of the children were born in Edmonson Co., KY.

    Children:
    1. Cela SKAGGS was born 1826.
    2. 1. Susannah SKAGGS was born 11 Aug 1829.
    3. Rosannah SKAGGS was born 1831.
    4. Nathan SKAGGS was born 1 Mar 1834.
    5. James SKAGGS was born Abt 1835.
    6. Archibald SKAGGS was born 18 Nov 1838.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Aaron SKAGGS was born 1755, VA (son of Richard SKAGGS and Elizabeth WELLS).

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    Aaron married Sarah Lyon. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Sarah Lyon

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    Children:
    1. 2. William SKAGGS was born 18 Nov 1797.

  3. 6.  Joseph Abraham MEREDITH, Sr. was born , Bear Creek, Russell Co., VA; died 24 Jun 1840, Grayson Co. KY.

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    Nickname was "Old Joe."

    Joseph married Nancy SKAGGS. Nancy (daughter of Charles SKAGGS and Lucinda (Lucy) THOMPSON) was born , Virginia; died 1840, Grayson Co. KY. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Nancy SKAGGS was born , Virginia (daughter of Charles SKAGGS and Lucinda (Lucy) THOMPSON); died 1840, Grayson Co. KY.

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    Children:
    1. Charles Wallace MEREDITH was born 1780.
    2. William MEREDITH was born 1782.
    3. Thomas MEREDITH was born 1785.
    4. Frederick MEREDITH was born 1787.
    5. Susannah MEREDITH was born Abt 1789.
    6. Nancy MEREDITH was born 1790.
    7. Joseph Abraham MEREDITH was born 1791.
    8. Alexander MEREDITH was born 1794.
    9. Joh Gordon MEREDITH was born 1796.
    10. 3. Lindsey MEREDITH was born 1798, Green Co. KY; died 1837, Edmonson Co. KY.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Richard SKAGGS was born Abt 1744, Virginia (son of James SKAGGS and Rachel); died Abt 1821, Barren Co. KY.

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    Notes:

    "The life of Daniel Boone," written by Lyman C Draper, LL.D., Henry, Charles and Richard Skaggs, and three other brothers were grandsons of an Irishman who fled from Ireland (Londonderry) in 1688-89, when so many of the Scotch-Irish race emigrated to the shores of the New World.

    Known marriages for Richard's children:
    1789 March 12, M. Skeggs md. Sarah Gumm, Nelson Co., KY.
    1791 Sept., 27, Shadrack Skaggs md. Lydia Gumm, Nelson Co., KY.

    1792, Green Co., KY, formed from Nelson Co. & Lincoln Co.

    1793 June 14, Sarah Skaggs md. Andrew Clement, Green Co., KY.
    1793 Aug. 1, Abednego Skaggs md. Catherine Hoback, Green Co., KY.
    1797 May 20, Henry Skaggs md. Sally Laisfield, Green Co., KY.

    1798, Barren Co., KY, formed from Green Co. & Warren Co.

    1807 Dec. 7, Rhody Logsdon md. John Q. Phelps, Barren Co., KY.
    1817 May 14, Rebecca Skaggs md. William Warnel, Barren Co., KY. --all from Kentucky Marriages before 1850 (Ancestry.com)

    1817, Betsy Skaggs md. Andrew B. Kelly, Green Co., KY. --LDS IGI

    Additional Skaggs marriages in Barren Co., KY (Ancestry.com)
    1812 April 2, Henry Skaggs md. Liddy Skaggs
    1817 May 14, Rebekah Skaggs md. William McVett
    1817 Dec. 5, Charles Skaggs md. Polly Wilcox
    1819 March 9, John Skaggs md. Edney Innis
    1822 April 26, Rachel Skaggs md. Rials Jefreys
    1825 Jan. 6, Sarah Skaggs md. Willis Hind

    Deposition of WILLIAM RATLIFF (27 April 1836 at the home of WILLIAM SKAGGS, Aleck Fork of Pitman Creek). I was acquainted with MOSES SKAGGS of Green County, KY. He had 4 sisters, to wit: SUSANNAH, wife of RICHARD WHIT; LYDIA, wife of MATTHIAS HARMON, ELIZABETH "Betsy," wife of JOHN HANKINS; and NANCY, wife of WILLIAM MERIDY. I was quite intimate with them in Virginia. I knew them before they married. MOSES had a brother named JOHN SKAGGS. MOSES died at his house in Green County about 40 years ago. He never had any children that I knew of. RICHARD WHIT and wife, MATTHIAS HARMON and wife, and JOHN HANKINS and wife all lived in Virginia. . . I knew the brothers of MOSES SKAGGS. They were HENRY, JAMES, CHARLES, JOHN, RICHARD and JACOB SKAGGS. I knew them in Kentucky and they all raised large families. . . I knew HENRY SKAGGS, son of RICHARD.

    Deposition of FRANCES SAMPLES (27 April 1836). I was familiar with MOSES SKAGGS who died in Green County about 40 years ago. He had 4 sisters, to wit: SUSANNAH, wife of RICHARD WHIT; LYDIA, wife of MATTHIAS HARMAN; ELIZABETH, wife of JOHN HANKINS, and NANCY, wife of WILLIAM MERIDY. They lived in Virginia. When I knew them, MOSES had 6 brothers: HENRY, JOHN, JAMES, CHARLES, RICHARD and JACOB.
    http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/green/estates/skaggs1.txt
    http://www.getnet.com/~cingram/f614.htm

    Wanda Sparkman to Skaggs-L, April 4, 2000: Per Richard Skaggs will, Dec. 10, 1818, Barren Co., KY, he had the following living children: John, Rhoda Phelps, Abednego, Sarah Clemmens, Henry, Elizabeth Kelly, and Liddy Skaggs. Sons Shadrack and Meshack Skaggs had died by 1818.

    1821, will of Richard Skaggs, Barren Co., KY, Book 2, p.256. --Kentucky Wills, 1700-1851

    Sons of James and Rachel listed in the Pioneer Baptist Church Records of South-Central Kentucky and the Upper Cumberland of Tennessee 1799-1899 by C. P. Cawthorn & N. L. Warnell copyright 1985.

    "When the gospel was first sent to the Green River section of Kentucky, the land was wild and uncultivated. Alas! for the poor Baptists, death at the hands of lawless savage was an ever present chill on the hearts of the living, and who could tell whether it would continue to advance with the quiet of a blight, or vet burst upon them with the fury of a tempest?

    "A great number of these first Baptists were among the "Long Hunters" who came from the "Baptist Valley" area of SouthWest Virginia. These families were the forerunners of the "foot-washing" Baptists which subsequently moved into Kentucky and established many of the Baptist Churches of the frontier land. Among the leaders was the Skaggs family consisting of Rev. James Skaggs and his brothers Henry, Richard, Jacob, Charles, Moses and William. These were the early "Long Hunters" of 1761-1755 of which the Kentucky historians have recorded much about. Henry and Richard were particularly prominent. Henry Skaggs was at the present site of Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1775. A brother Moses was killed by Indians on his second trip into Kentucky.

    Richard Skaggs had 3 sons named Shadrach, Mashack and Abendnego. It was Mashack who was killed by Indians on the creek named after him in present Monroe County, Kentucky.
    The men who lived on the frontier took protracted hunting trips into Kentucky, hence the name "Long Hunters" later when Daniel Boone led a group of Yadkin farmers into Kentucky, they used a wilderness track referred to as the "Skaggs Trace". This track became a part of the Boone Trace and Wilderness Road that led the pioneers into Kentucky from Virginia.

    "The first settlement of the Green River Baptists was in Green County in 1780, and was known as Skaggs station. It was established by Rev. James Skaggs and was the third station in what is now Green county, Kentucky. Glovers station having been established in the Fall of 1779 and Pitman's Station in March of 1780. In March of 1780, James Skaggs Station was broken up and burned by the Indians. Rev. James Skaggs daughter was killed and scalped."

    1757/1759 Richard Skaggs, Isaac Skaggs and James Skaggs are list as being in Capt. Dogworthy's company "O" during the French and Indian War, in History of Fredrick County, By T. C. Williams. They all enlisted the same day and were at Braddock's defeat 1769 June.

    Richard Skaggs list as being on a long hunt in Kentucky_ (Collins/Leslie)1783/1786 Richard Skaggs listed on Greenbrier County Tax payers_Draper said of Henry Skaggs - That he and his brothers Charles Skaggs and Richard Skaggs was a family of noted hunters and nothing but hunters who kept pace with the advanceing settelments. Richard Skaggs with Contintal Line Regiment in Virginia - Richard Skaggs was with William Skaggs, David Skaggs and Joseph Skaggs and received land grants in Barren County, Kentucky south of Green River south of Lick Creek on Lick Branch, a tributary of Blue Spring Creek.

    Richard married Elizabeth WELLS. Elizabeth was born Abt 1730. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth WELLS was born Abt 1730.

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    Children:
    1. Shadrack SKAGGS was born Abt 1753.
    2. Meshack SKAGGS was born Abt 1754.
    3. 4. Aaron SKAGGS was born 1755, VA.
    4. Rhoda SKAGGS was born Abt 1758.
    5. Sarah SKAGGS was born Abt 1761.
    6. John SKAGGS was born Abt 1765.
    7. Henry SKAGGS was born Abt 1767.
    8. Abednigo SKAGGS was born Abt 1769.
    9. Rebecca SKAGGS was born Abt 1770.
    10. Elizabeth SKAGGS was born Abt 1772.
    11. Lydia SKAGGS was born Abt 1775.

  3. 14.  Charles SKAGGS was born Abt 1729, Fincastle, Botetourt Co. VA (son of James SKAGGS and Rachel); died 9 Feb 1815, Green Co. KY.

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    1773: The first permanent settlers [in Tazewell Co., VA] came from Augusta and Rockbridge counties, New River and its tributaries. . . . In 1773 there were settled [among others] JAMES and CHARLES SCAGGS in Baptist Valley, five miles from site of Tazewell. --Robert Bell Woodworth, The Captives of Abb's Valley: A Legend of Frontier Life (Staunton, VA: McClure Co., Inc., Publishers, 1942), xi

    "The life of Daniel Boone," written by Lyman C Draper, LL.D., Henry, Charles and Richard Skaggs, and three other brothers were grandsons of an Irishman who fled from Ireland (Londonderry) in 1688-89, when so many of the Scotch-Irish race emigrated to the shores of the New World.

    Deposition of WILLIAM RATLIFF (27 April 1836 at the home of WILLIAM SKAGGS, Aleck Fork of Pitman Creek). I was acquainted with MOSES SKAGGS of Green County, KY. He had 4 sisters, to wit: SUSANNAH, wife of RICHARD WHIT; LYDIA, wife of MATTHIAS HARMON, ELIZABETH "Betsy," wife of JOHN HANKINS; and NANCY, wife of WILLIAM MERIDY. I was quite intimate with them in Virginia. I knew them before they married. MOSES had a brother named JOHN SKAGGS. . . I knew the brothers of MOSES SKAGGS. They were HENRY, JAMES, CHARLES, JOHN, RICHARD and JACOB SKAGGS. I knew them in Kentucky and they all raised large families.

    Deposition of FRANCES SAMPLES (27 April 1836). I was familiar with MOSES SKAGGS who died in Green County about 40 years ago. He had 4 sisters, to wit: SUSANNAH, wife of RICHARD WHIT; LYDIA, wife of MATTHIAS HARMAN; ELIZABETH, wife of JOHN HANKINS, and NANCY, wife of WILLIAM MERIDY. They lived in Virginia. When I knew them, MOSES had 6 brothers: HENRY, JOHN, JAMES, CHARLES, RICHARD and JACOB.
    http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/green/estates/skaggs1.txt
    http://www.getnet.com/~cingram/f614.htm

    Book 2, p.137. Will of Charles Skaggs. Written 9 February 1815. My wife, Lucy. My sons Moses, Archibald, Frederick, and Thomas. My daughters Rachel Blevens, Nancy Meredith, Polly Gray, and Sally Robertson. To Tempy Belcher, w. of Berry. To Nathan Blevens. Witnesses James Akin, Charles Blevens, Charity Howell, William G. Owens, and Zachariah Nance. Probated 22 January 1816. --Karen R. Cucchia , Dec. 8, 1998, from Elizabeth Prather Ellesberry, Will Records of Green County, KY 1796-1824

    SKAGGS-D Digest V99 #110, 10/19/99, Henry SKAGGS' Burial Site. An AKERS researcher sent a clipping from "The Kentucky Explorer" magazine, October 1999 issue, that features an article about the efforts of the South Central Kentucky Historical Society to mark forgotten cemeteries in the area. This article has a photo of society volunteers who have placed a sign on or near the burial place of Henry SKAGGS, the Long Hunter, located on the property of former Kentucky Governor Louie NUNN, at Hiseville Park, KY. The site is in Barren Co., KY, and near Green Co., KY, where Henry SKAGGS and Charles SKAGGS' wills are filed.

    Henry SKAGGS m. Mary THOMPSON, d/o John THOMPSON and Mary (unknown). I am interested in exchanging information with anyone who might know where Henry's brother, Charles SKAGGS and his wife, Lucy THOMPSON, might be buried. Mary and Lucy are sisters of my ancestor, Archibald THOMPSON, b. 1736, who left a diary, transcripts and index of which can be seen at Doug Moore's home page at http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore

    The SKAGGS and THOMPSON families were in Montgomery and Tazewell Counties, VA, in the mid-1700s and settled in Kentucky on the Green and Cumberland Rivers before 1800.

    Lived at Slash Branch Of Little Brush Creek, KY.

    There was a grand jury indictment in Green Co. KY against him on May 5, 1795 for saying "God Damm" in the winter of 1795.

    Occupation:
    Longhunter

    Charles married Lucinda (Lucy) THOMPSON. Lucinda was born , Conasauga Creek, GA. [Group Sheet]


  4. 15.  Lucinda (Lucy) THOMPSON was born , Conasauga Creek, GA.

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    Children:
    1. 7. Nancy SKAGGS was born , Virginia; died 1840, Grayson Co. KY.
    2. Archer or Archibald SKAGGS was born 3 Jan 1759, Laurens Co. SC.
    3. Rachel SKAGGS was born 31 Aug 1760/1761, NC or VA; died 1802, Green Co. KY.
    4. Frederick SKAGGS was born 11 Dec 1764.
    5. Mary (Polly) SKAGGS was born 16 Sep 1767.
    6. Thomas Thompson SKAGGS was born 16 Dec 1769.
    7. Sarah SKAGGS was born 27 Dec 1771.
    8. Moses David SKAGGS was born 27 Jan 1774.
    9. James SKAGGS was born Abt 1775.