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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  HENRY A. SKEGGS, Sr., son of Leonard Thomas and Mahalah (Pice) Skeggs, was
born in Frederick County, Md., in November, 1815; became a merchant tailor; came
to Huntsville in 1846, and subsequently carried on his business at Huntsville,
New Orleans and other places. He served through the war principally in General
Wheeler's Cavalry, and was captured twice, once with Wheeler and once with
Forrest. Returning from the army, he went first to Huntsville, then to
Chattanooga, and in 1872 came to Decatur, where he still resides.

  His father, L. T. Skeggs, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and his
grandfather, John Skeggs, of Greenbrier County. Va., served in the Revolutionary
War.

  H. A. Skeggs, Sr., reared three sons: William E., Rufus H., now dead: and
Henry A. Skeggs. Jr., who was born May 12, 1854, at Huntsville, Ala. His mother,
Mary J. (Hunt) Skeggs, was a daughter of Major Hunt of Huntsville, and a
great-granddaughter of the man who located that city, and from whom it takes its
name.

  Mr. Skeggs, Jr., was reared in Huntsville; received his early education in the
common schools of that place; lost his mother in 1852, and during the war lived
with Col. Russell Kelley, near Maysville After the war he attended school in
Huntsville until 1872, when he became a salesman in the grocery of J. B. Trotman
& Son. In October, 1875, he was employed as book-keeper and salesman with L. M.
Falk, of Decatur. In May, 1874, he traveled for J. H. Goodhart & Co., of
Cincinnati, buying cotton, and subsequently for other houses until June, 1877;
then he went to Colorado, and engaged in mining at Georgetown. In November,
1878, he returned to Decatur, and was again salesman for L. M. Falk. In 1880 he
established a store of his own, which he conducted successfully until 1887, and
then sold it, having embarked in the real estate business in January of that
year. He is a stockholder in nearly all of the stock companies of Decatur; is
prominent in the Mineral Land Company, and is a member of the City Council.

  Mr. Skeggs was married June 7, 1883, to Miss Sue A. Barkett, of Trinity, Ala.,
a daughter of Thaddeus and Mary (Tie) Burkett [sic], natives of Kentucky.

  H. A. Skeggs, Jr., has three children: William T., Annie C. and Thomas H. Mrs.
Skeggs is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is a Mason
and a Knight of Pythias.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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