Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Caroline?read=1399 Surname: Skinner, Dillard, Atkinson ------------------------- I am looking for information on James Henry Skinner. He would have been born about 1836-37 in the Corbin area of Caroline Co. He may have been born on Feb. 15. I believe his parents were Joseph F. Skinner and Eleanor (Atkinson) Skinner. There is a 13 year old 'Henry' listed in the household of carpenter Joseph Skinner in 1850. On July 9, 1860 a 24 year old Henry Skinner married a 23 year old Sarah Anne Dillard. Henry's parents are listed as Jos. & Ellen Skinner. Sarah's are _______& Sarah A. Dillard. (The 1850 Census lists a 40 year old Anne E. Dillard with 16 year old daughter, Sarah A. - no father.) The 1860 Census confirms that 25 year old James H. Skinner, carpenter, has set up a home with wife, Sarah A. Skinner in the Guineys P.O. area. It also shows that they had been married within the year and James had attended school within the year. The record becomes somewhat confusing for the next several years. A Jas. H. Skinner enlists in 47th Va. Inf. on Apr. 1, 1862. In mid June of the same year, at Chimborazo Hospital No. 1, he dies. The cause is listed as 'continued fever'.On July 16, 1863 his widow, Sarah A. Skinner files a claim with the Confederate States Auditor,presumably for back pay. Then on Aug. 22, 1863 a James H. Skinner enlists in the 30th Va. Inf. He survives the war. His service record shows his place of residence as Caroline Co., Va. I have been unable to find any record of him after the war until 1904 when he files an 'Application for disability...' on which he lists his residence as Fredericksburg, Va. He disappears off the pension rolls in 1919. The first I can find Sarah Skinner after the War is in Port Royal Township on the 1880 Census. She is living by herself with four children, the youngest: Mary L. Skinner age 4. Where is her husband? He would have had to have been around up to at least 1875 or so to have a 4 year old daughter in 1880. In 1900 Sarah A. Skinner is living in Fredericksburg, Va. in the household of her son in law, Oscar Lewis, who married Mary L. She is listed as Mother of 5, 4 living. These would be: James Coleman Skinner (my ancestor, another carpenter) b. Apr. 8, 1861, Roberta A. (Brown?) b. 1865-66, Elizabeth (Macunaha?) b. Apr. 1870, William S. Skinner b. 1872-73, and Mary L. Lewis b. Apr. 1875, m. Oscar Lewis b. Apr. 1874 (a carpenter). I'm not sure which one died before 1900 but I think it might be Roberta because there are two Nephews in law, Alexander and Arthur, b. 1880 and 1890 respectively, that only Roberta would have been old enough to have, living with Orson Lewis. Pretty confusing, huh? The Civil War really made tracking down ancestors in Caroline Co. difficult, didn't it? I would appreciate help from any cousins out there. Thanks.