Biographical Sketch of Joel M. Skelton, Greene County, Missouri, Pond 
Creek Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Joel M. Skelton (deceased).  This gentleman was the son of Noel and M.
(McGee) Skelton, and was born in Franklin County, Georgia, March 1, 
1822.  His father was a soldier in the War of 1812.  Joel grew to man-
hood in his native county, where he was married February 28, 1845, to
Miss Martha E. A., daughter of Tavner and Elizabeth (Wades) Rucker. 
Their marriage was blest with eight children: Mary E., Sarepta E.,
Sarah A. C., deceased, George V., Annie M. J., William J. W. R., Martha
H. A. and James M. T., all of whom are married.  In 1857 Mr. Skelton
moved, by wagon drawn by oxen, to Greene County, Missouri, and settled
where his widow now resides.  He was an inoffensive, quiet gentleman, a
member of the Baptist church.  He took no part in the civil war, but 
his sympathies were with the "sunny South," where he had been born and
reared.  Upon the night of November 8, 1862, he was wantonly and cruel-
ly murdered in his own yard by two men dressed in Federal uniform. They
made him dance, and otherwise subjected him to indignities, and while
his devoted wife had gone to get a Union neighbor to intercede for her
husband, the fiends murdered him.  The shock dethroned the reason of
his beloved wife, and she yet lives under that great affliction.

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