SKELTON FAMILY NEWSLETTER-IIe

No. 1a ------------------------------------------------------------------ 18 August 2000

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  • The Skelton Family Newsletter-II (SFN-II) is dedicated to the histories of the earliest known Skelton families of North America. Approximately twenty-two different families have been identified to date. Issue No. 1 of SFN-II was published on 11 January 1993; Issue No. 20 was published on 24 March 2000. This is Issue No. 1 of the new SFN-IIe, the version of SFN-II to be published via the World Wide Web.
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    Three articles are included in this issue: The first deals with Captain James Skelton and his activities during the Civil War, as learned from the pages of his diary. On 27 June 1864, James Skelton was promoted from Sergeant-Major of his regiment to Second Lieutenant; the following day he lost his right leg in the Battle of Kennsaw Mountain in Georgia. It took the U.S. Army twenty-two years to recognize his promotion.

    The second article details the conspiracy of three Skelton brothers, James, Robert, and Walter, and their first cousin, John Skelton, to ambush and kill one Robert C. Ross. All were residents of Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama. The murder took place on Sunday morning, 04 February 1894, in the adjacent town of Stevenson, Alabama. The motive was to avenge the dishonor of Miss Annie Skelton, sister of the three brothers. Apparently, Mr. Ross, a married man, had had improper relations with Miss Annie.

    The last article reports the text of a presentation made by Diana L. Skelton on Tuesday, 11 July 2000 to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Diana is a descendant of John Skelton (ca. 1750-1816) and his wife, Catharine Hepler (ca. 1750-ca. 1820) of Shenandoah County, Virginia. In 1986, Diana joined the Fourth World Movement Volunteer Corps, an organization dedicated to the war on extreme poverty in the United States and around the world. Diana is the Fourth World Movement's representative to the United Nations.

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    Earl F. Skelton, Ph.D., CG
    6311 29th Place, NW
    Washington, DC 20015-2221

    mailto:Skelton@NRL.Navy.mil

    Edited by Lisa M. Hightower-Chadwick
    Camarillo, CA

    Copyright (c) 2000 by Earl F. Skelton

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