This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zZB.2ACI/62.369.370.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, I can't help you with his parents' names either. All I have on him is what was in the article. He doesn't appear to be from my direct line of Skeens. I suspect he goes back to a rather substantial, and well-researched branch of Skeens, if there is a North Carolina connection. Good Luck!