COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Josephine Skinner
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 2048
Item Description:
Skinner, Josephine - Biographical information for Mrs. Josephine A. Barnett Skinner; "Early Resident Taken by Death; Mrs. Josephine Skinner Victim Heart - Ill After Stroke", Sheridan Press, Sep. 5, 1937
Date:
Undated
Notes:
born: Sep. 21, 1862, in Warren Co. (Ind.)
Notes:
moved to Opheim (Mont.) - returned to home in Big Horn (1921)
Notes:
died: Sep. 4, 1937 (age: 74), in her home near Big Horn
Notes:
funeral: at Community Church (Big Horn) at Big Horn
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buried: Mount Hope Cemetery (Memorial ID: 31754845) near Big Horn (Sherman Co., Wyo.)
Notes:
family, via covered wagon, to Burlington (Kan. - 1868) - to Niwot (Colo. - 1882)
Notes:
settled at Big Horn (Sheridan Co., Wyo., 1885 - 1898) - ranch home no. 11
Notes:
Skinner, William (husband, born: ? - married: Jun. 6, 1886 at Big Horn - died: 1904 - buried: ?)
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3 children - 2 sons & 1 daughter: 1 boy died at infancy, Robert and Mrs. Ray Mela husband: blind - moved to Iowa
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relocated to Max (N. D. - 1906) - homesteaded there (till 1916)
Type:
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