Newhanover-Cumberland County NcArchives Obituaries.....Skinner, Emily J. September 25, 1897
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Wilmington Messenger, Sunday, September 26, 1897
	The many friends and acquaintances of Captain Samuel W. Skinner and 
his wife Mrs. Emily J. Skinner, are deeply grieved at the death of the latter, 
which occurred last night at 10:45 o’clock at the family residence, 611 Orange 
street.  The deceased lady had been ill with gastritis for about tow weeks.
	Mrs. Skinner was aged 63 years on the 21st of last January.  She was 
the daughter of Mr. E. J. Erambert, a merchant of Wilmington, who died very 
many years ago.  A brother, Mr. Louis H. Erambert, once a prominent druggist 
of this city, died of the yellow fever in 1862, and a sister, Mrs. A. M. 
Carter, died since the late war.  Mrs. Skinner was first married to Captain 
Wilkinson, of Fayetteville.  She leaves besides a husband, so sadly bereaved, 
a son, Mr. Louis H. Skinner, and two daughters, Misses Sallie and Augusta, to 
mourn the loss of one of the most affectionate and devoted of wives and 
parents.
	The deceased for many years had been a member of St. Andrew’s 
Presbyterian church.  Her Christian character was exemplified in acts of 
helpfulness to those who sadly needed aid, who but for her had no friend.  So 
quiet and unobtrusive were these deeds of kindness and of love, that only 
those who knew her well could know them.  But they are wrote in Heaven.
	The arrangements for the funeral will be announced later.

Additional Comments:
Emily J. Erambert was the daughter of Augustus J. Erambert and Martha J. 
Newberry.  *I believe I have seen that Martha Erambert was a founding member 
of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church.

Emily J’s sister, Virginia, married Archibald M. Carter.

Her brother, Louis B. Erambert, was a Wilmington druggist.  Before “going off 
to war,” and later becoming a physician, Thomas Fanning Wood had worked for L. 
B. Erambert in his drugstore about 1860.  In one of Dr. T. F. Wood’s 
recollections of the Civil War, he recounts visiting Captain Skinner (who 
lived on Church Hill) in Richmond, VA, and being “warmly welcomed.”  Louis B. 
Erambert is buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, NC.  

In 1863, Captain Samuel W. Skinner had set a speed record aboard the 
steamer “A.P. Hurt,” from Wilmington to Fayetteville, NC.  Later, Captain 
Skinner owned a Marine Railway between Castle and Nun Streets.  *The actual 
Captain Albert P. Hurt was married to Morgiana Erambert, a daughter of Henry 
Erambert.

According to Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory 1851-1852 for
North Carolina,  Henry Erambert was listed as a “confectioner” in Cumberland 
County, Fayetteville, NC.

The Wilmington Morning Star reported that one of the eight passengers aboard 
the river steamer, “Bladen,” on the day of the Great Fire of Wilmington (21st 
February, 1886), was a Miss Erambert from Richmond, VA.  She escaped with but 
her hair and clothing being singed.  Both the “Bladen” and the “River Queen” 
steamers were burned to the waterline and sunk.  A couple of weeks later, both 
hulls & boilers were raised and brought to Captain Skinner’s Marine Railway.

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