"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 82, No 10, p 317, Mar. 5, 1917. Rosanna Pearce, daughter of Edmund and Abigail Frazier Pearce, was born in Bradley County, Tenn., January 8, 1843, and died near Clever, Mo., February 6, 1917. With her parents, she moved from Tennessee to Christian County, Missouri, in 1854. The remainder of her life was spent in the neighborhood in which they settled. She was married to LeRoy F. Skaggs, December 5, 1872. To them were born five children: Mrs. Emma Conley, Coffeyville, Kan., H. M. Skaggs, Nortonville, Kan., and Mrs. Harriet Grant, School, Mo. She leaves her husband, five children, and twenty grandchildren, who feel very keenly their loss. She became a Christian and joined the Methodist church at about the age of twenty-five years. After her marriage to Rev. L. F. Skaggs, she changed her membership to the Baptist church of which he was a minister. Husband and wife studying together became convinced that the seventh day of the week is the Sabbath according to the teaching of the Bible, and August first, 1880, they began the observation of the Sabbath, and later became constituent members of the Delaware Seventh Day Baptist Church. Though for many years she rarely met Seventh Day Baptists, other than members of her own family, to the end she remained most faithful to denominational ideals and interests. Her courage and ability were demonstrated during a period of ten years beginning in 1890 when her husband was called by our Missionary Board to the home mission field, and she was left at home with her five children raging in age from nine to fifteen years. She not only looked after the interests of the home and the training of the children, but gave the boys much assistance and encouragement in the management of the farm. Her circle of friends was as wide as her circle of acquaintances, and many are they who feel lonely, now that "Aunt Rose" is gone. The funeral service was conducted at Frazier Chapel (Methodist Church) by her son, James, pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, Nortonville, Kan. "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 109, No 12, p 356, Sep. 22, 1930. Leroy Fouse Skaggs was a son of James Alexander and Maria Sterling Skaggs. He was born near Knoxville, Tenn., March 1, 1845. When he was yet a child the family moved to the vicinity of Bentonville, Ark. Before the Civil War the family moved again and settled in Green County, Mo., a few miles from the site of the city of Springfield. At the age of sixteen years, as the Civil War had begun, he entered the service of the United States Government as a teamster and served for three years, helping to transport food and other necessities for the soldiers. His educational opportunities were very limited, so far as formal schooling was concerned. However, he made sufficient progress in subjects usually taught in rural schools to be able to teach, and was engaged as a teacher for several years. He had a keen mind, good memory, a thirst for knowledge, and he spent much time in reading and careful study throughout the years of his active life. He often expressed regret that he had not been able to secure college and university training. He was married December 5, 1872, to Miss Rosanna Pearce. They established a farm home southwest of Springfield, in Christian County, and near the James River. There came five children to this home. The first break in the family came in February, 1917, when the wife and mother died. All the children are still living and were at the bedside of their father as he passed away, August 14, 1930. The sons and daughters are in the order of ages: Mrs. Emma Conley, Dearing, Kan.; Hannibal M. and Mrs. Mary Caughron, Clever, Mo.; James L. and Mrs. Harriet Grant, Milton, Wis. He is also survived by twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-two great-grandchildren, one brother, James. G., Clever, Mo., and one sister, Mrs. Ida Forrester, Marionville, Mo. In youth he became a member of the Baptist church. In 1872 he was by that church licensed to preach, and in 1876 he was called to ordination to the gospel ministry. The original certificates are in the possession of the family. In 1882 he became convinced that Christians should observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, and he added the observance of the Sabbath to his otherwise standard Baptist principles. Several other families in the community became interested, and a little later the Delaware Seventh Day Baptist Church was organized. The church had an active existence of twenty years or more and attained considerable influence in the community. Much of the time worship was conducted on both Sabbath and Sunday and many people attended who were not particularly interested in the Sabbath. Nearly all the meetings of this church were under the direction of either Elder Skaggs or Elder W. K. Johnson. In 1889 the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society engaged the subject of this sketch as general missionary in southwestern Missouri, and his labors were continued in this field for about ten years. Since the death of Mrs. Skaggs in 1917, he has lived most of the time in the homes of his son Hannibal and his daughters Emma, Mary, and Harriet. He passed away on August 14, 1930, at the home of his daughter Mary, near Clever, Mo. His body was laid to rest beside that of his wife in the local cemetery. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Earl French, a Baptist pastor of Springfield, Mo. They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders