Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Skinner, James Henry August 17, 1893
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Norfolk Virginian August 18, 1893

                          Death of an Aged Citizen

Capt. J.H. Skinner, a well known citizen, died at his residence, No. 7 Dartmouth 
Street, yesterday afternoon at 3 :45 o'clock.  Capt. Skinner was one of the 
oldest members of the Virginia Pilot's Association, being in his 65th year at 
the time of his death.  He had been confined to his house for the past eight 
years, and to his bed about a year.  During the war Capt. Skinner did service in 
the commissary department of the Confederacy, being stationed at Belle Isle, 
near Richmond.
He was a member of Orient Lodge, Knights of Honor, and of Wyandatte Tribe of Red 
Men and leaves a wife, three sons and two daughters to mourn his taking off. 
Deceased was the son of the lamented Capt. Thomas Skinner, who years ago 
commanded at different periods the steamers Jamestown and Roanoke, plying 
between this city and New York.  The funeral will take place from the residence 
this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.

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