Skaggs, John

Personal Information
Last Name	Skaggs
First Name	John
Middle Name
Maiden Name
Death Date	7/30/1871
Birth Date	10/9/1800
Obituary Source	Morgan Co. Republican, Aug. 3, 1871
Source Information	Cemetery index
Cemetery	Thompson

Family Information
Spouse	Edna Ennis
Survived By	Wife; children, James Scaggs, Mary Ellinger, Thomas Scaggs, Zachariah Scaggs, Elizabeth Thompson, John S. Scaggs, Eliza Bailey and Jonathan Scaggs, and another son, Madison Scaggs, who had physically cared for his parents. [Source: Morgan County Will Abstracts, 1847-1887.]
Other	Age 70 years, 9 months, and 21 days. Married in 1818 in Barren Co., Kentucky; moved to Indiana soon after marriage. Father of nine children: James E., Thomas P., Mary J., Zachariah, Elizabeth B., John Sims, Eliza A., Jonathan W., and Madison V. Skaggs. [Source: article by Noble K. Littell in the Morgan Co. Gazette, April 29, 1971.] He had a farm near Cope in Green Township, also engaged in logging operations and operated threshing machines. Late in his life, he lost both arms in an accident with either a threshing machine or a clover huller, or possibly a corn shredder. "Died at his residence near Cross Roads in Green Township...For several years, Mr. Skaggs had to go to Jackson County and to Blue River to mill. He had raised a family of nine children -- all living, married and doing well." [From the Morgan Co. Gazette for July 23, 1853: "Mr. John Skaggs was seriously injured in a farm accident on the farm of Joseph Davee, in Green Township. Attended by Drs. Hoyt and Blackstone."]
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