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Marriage: Children:
  1. John P. Skiles: Birth: 22 DEC 1802 in Jackson County, Tennessee, USA. Death: 15 FEB 1889 in Rushville, Schuyler County, Illinois, USA

  2. Moses Justus Skiles: Birth: 9 FEB 1803 in Blount County, Tennessee, USA. Death: 13 OCT 1877 in Pleasantview, Schuyler County, Illinois, USA

  3. Rebecca Skiles: Birth: 14 OCT 1806 in Tennessee, USA. Death: 31 MAR 1891 in Browning, Schuyler County, Illinois, USA

  4. Amelia Elizabeth Betsy Skiles: Birth: 26 AUG 1808 in Tennessee, USA. Death: 14 SEP 1891 in Schuyler County, Illinois, USA

  5. Sarah Jane Skiles: Birth: 26 OCT 1813 in Jackson County, Tennessee, USA. Death: 12 JUL 1902 in Bronson, Bourbon County, Kansas, USA

  6. Lewis Byron Skiles: Birth: 13 JUN 1814 in Jackson County, Tennessee, USA. Death: 14 JUL 1853 in Hickory, Schuyler County, Illinois, USA

  7. Mary Ann Polly Skiles: Birth: 11 DEC 1816 in Christian, Kentucky, USA. Death: 17 MAR 1913 in Browning, Schuyler County, Illinois, USA

  8. James Ralston Skiles: Birth: 17 FEB 1818 in Wayne County, Missouri, USA. Death: 5 MAY 1909 in Kansas or Nebraska, USA

  9. William Carlos Skiles: Birth: 4 MAR 1820 in Wayne County, Missouri, USA. Death: 6 JUN 1907 in Alma, Harlan County, Nebraska, USA

  10. Mary Emiline Skiles: Birth: ABT 1825 in Wayne County, Missouri, USA.

  11. Susan E. Skiles: Birth: 31 MAR 1828 in Hickory, Schuyler County, Illinois, USA. Death: 25 NOV 1850 in Hickory, Schuyler County, Illinois, USA


Sources
1. Title:   U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815
Author:   Direct Data Capture, comp
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4. Title:   War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815
Author:   Ancestry.com
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7. Title:   Illinois State Census Records
Page:   1930 Carbon Cliff, Rock Island County, Illinois Census; Hampton Township, Roll: 552; Enumeration District: 26; Image: 275
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Notes
a. Note:   EARLY SETTLERS OF BUFFALO VALLEY
 By D. Mitchell Jones
 Volume XVII, No. 2 - UCGA
 found at http://dmitchelljones.org/buffalo_valley.htm
  One of the unique migration patterns was that of George Skiles. George Skiles was born c. 1780 in Maryland, died 4 August 1863 in Schuyler Co., Illinois and married 7 January 1802 in Blount County, Tennessee to Mary Justice, b. ca. 1783 in Tennessee and died 1874 in Schuyler County, Illinois. By 1808 he was in Buffalo Valley where his brother was present as early as 1803. He was an ensign in Mathew Cowan's Company of Colonel Rouston's Regiment during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. In 1816 he moved to Indiana, then to Kentucky, then to Wayne County, Missouri and by 1826 was in Schuyler County, Illinois. In the 1830 census of Schuyler County Illinois, he is found with his brother, William Skiles, John and William Carr, Nathaniel Glover, Abraham and Hugh Lancaster, Abel and John Linsenby, Charles and Jacob Reno, Jonathan Smith, Peter Vance and David Wallace.
  Of George and Mary's thirteen children we have identified the following:
  1. Moses J., b. 1803, TN, md 1st Mrs. Swazey, md 2nd Mary Luttrell, daughter of Shelton Luttrell and Sarah (Sallie) Bryant, md 3rd Malinda Lynch;
 2. Mary, b. ca. 1815, Jackson County, Tennessee md Hiram Scott;
 3. James, lived Alma, Nebraska;
 4. John, trained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
 5. William C., b. ca. 1820, Wayne County, Missouri, d. 12 April 1907 Schuyler County, Illinois. Convert to Union Baptist faith and was a circuit rider minister with his brother, John in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, md Sarah Luttrell, (daughter of Shelton Luttrell, b. 12 May 1794 in Virginia, d. 6 April 1883, Schuyler County, Illinois and Sarah (Sallie) Bryant, b. 25 June 1792 in Patrick County, Virginia, d. 29 may 1894 in Schuyler County, Illinois). Two of the people who witnessed the pension application of Mary Skiles were Joseph Reno and Alfred C. and Samuel F. Wallace.


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