Obit for HARMER, Mrs. Matthew (Mary Ann Skinner) (b.1815 d.1906) Rice Co., MN
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OBITUARY OF MARY ANN SKINNER 

MRS. MARY ANN HARMER
"Mrs. Matthew Harmer, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Skinner, was born in 
Sussex, England, May 24, 1815, and died February 26, 1906 at the age of 90 
years, 9 months and 2 days.
At an early age she became a member of the Episcopal church.  Mrs. Harmer 
survived her husband's death by nine years.  She was the mother of seventeen 
children, of which there were six daughters and eleven sons, fourteen of whom 
live to mourn her loss, Mrs. Harriet Smith, of Texas; Mrs. Mary Crown of 
Markesan, Wis.; Mrs. Jennie Lynch, of this place; Matthew, of Edgerton, Mo.; 
Henry, of Randolph, Wis.; Thomas, of Downs, Kansas; James, of North Yakima, 
Wash.; William, of Minneapolis; Herbert, Jesse, and Richard, of Northfield, 
John and Albert, of Claremont, and George of this place.  
Mrs. Harmer accompanied by her husband and 10 children, sailed from London, 
England, in 1849 to America on the sailboat Victoria, being 45 days on the 
water, and settled in Wisconsin where they lived until the spring of 1862 
when they moved to this state.  
In the spring of 1865 they moved onto a farm near Claremont, Minn., and have 
made it their home in this country since that time.  
Mrs. Harmer was a lover of her home and ever faithful to its duties as long 
as health and strength permitted.  
The funeral services were held this afternoon in the M. E. church, Rev. John 
Ferry, of Claremont, officiating, and the remains laid at rest in Riverside 
cemetery."

Dodge County Star: February 1906.