JONES COUNTY, GA - BIOS  L. Sketoe

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., Page 449
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895



L. Sketoe, farmer, Griswoldville, Jones Co., Ga., son
of Gary and Rachel (Campbell) Sketoe, was born in
Darlington District, S.C., Oct. 27, 1831.  His
grandfather, John Sketoe, was a native Spaniard who
first came to North Carolina, moved then to South
Carolina with his family, and lived there until he
died.  Gary, his son, was reared and married in South
Carolina, whence he came to Wilkinson County, Ga., in
1837.  Three years thereafter he removed to Twiggs
County, where he remained one year, and then moved into
Jones County, where he died in 1870.  His wife died in
1868.  They reared to maturity but two children out of
ten boys born: William, who died of disease, while a
soldier in the army of Virginia during the war, and the
subject of this sketch.  Mr. Sketoe was reared a farmer
in Jones County, which has been his principal pursuit
through life.  Just after the war, however, until 1872,
he followed railroading.  In the fall of that year he
bought a 340 acre farm, about twelve miles from Macon,
near Griswoldville, and has resided there since, and
placed himself in comfortable circumstances with a good
home, and esteemed by all his neighbors.  Mr. Sketoe
was married in January, 1860, to Miss Mary Brewer, who
bore him two children: William D., railroad contractor,
and Cornelia G., wife of William Balkcom, Jones County.
The mother of these children died in 1870.  In 1872 Mr.
Sketoe married Mrs. Alice (Tarver) Alford, who had
three children by her former husband: A.O., deceased;
Ava, wife of Henry Morgan, Savannah, Ga., and Alice,
deceased.  Two children are the offspring of this
second marriage: Lela R., wife of Alonzo Balkcom, Jones
County and Thomas L., a bright and very promising
thirteen-year-old boy, of fine mental endowments and
decidedly literary in his tastes.  Mrs. Sketoe died May
4, 1891.  Mr. Sketoe is an ardent populist, a master
Mason and a Methodist.