Princeton Clarion, Princeton,Indiana   October 1,1853

        JACOB SKELTON died of old age, at the residence of his son-
     in-law,Elisha Strickland in Gibson County,Indiana, on the 23rd
     inst., Jacob Skelton,Sr.,aged 85 years. He emigrated to this
     (Gibson) county, A.D. 1807 while this country was still a wild-
     erness. He march in the Tippecanoe Campaign and but for sickness
     which detained him at Fort Harrison would have been in that
     battle.
        The deceased was a consistant member of the Regular Baptist
     Church for more than 40 years. Mr. Skelton has left behind him
     a numerous progeny. He raised eleven children all of who are
     married and became parents of children.   He has 106 grand
     children and 110 great-grand children most of who survive and
     live in this county. 

     Robert V. Woods-  my g-g-g-grandfather.


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