Notes for: Mary ("Polly/Mollie") Bodine
Mary Bodine, b. 14 Apr. 1778, m. 24 March 1801, Nelson Co., Ky., Richard Skinner, b. 3 Oct. 1769, d. 4 Nov. 1823, bur. McMakin-Skinner cem., near Chaplin, Ky., now destroyed. The information on this family was partly derived from Kentucky Families by Mrs. J. Weldon (Mary Lizzie Green) Baird. She cites a work by Addah Karrick Montgomery called Zilpah, saying that the author was a descendant of the above Richard Skinner's brother John, who m. Sarah Litler and that this work concerned the John Skinner family. She also referred to a "Skinner Genealogy" that was being prepared in 1954 by Lee I. Parks of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Baird also gives Richard Skinner a brother named Nelson (perhaps from the Jolley or Coombs family, but not yet found) and another named Isaac. Isaac is said to have been b. ca. 1759-60 and was from Loudoun Co., Va. She says he is mentioned in the Collins history of Kentucky and that he was a soldier in the Revolution. He, who d. in 1841, and his wife Margaret Pullen [she erroneously calls her Hattie Middleton, whom she also at another point makes the wife of a later Isaac] were buried in Bullitt Co., Ky. on land that is now a part of Ft. Knox. The above-cited work of Lee I. Parks says that Richard, John (m. Sarah Littler), Isaac, and Nelson (lived in Clark Co., Ky.) are sons of Richard Skinner and Addah Van Deventer. Note that here below in the McMakin account it is said that Sarah McMakin, b. 8 Nov. 1767, d. 27 Dec. 1847, Warren Co., Ohio, m. 8 March 1786, Loudoun Co., Va., Cornelius Skinner, b. 27 Feb. 1757, New Jersey, d. 21 March 1812, Aldie, Loudoun Co., Va., son of Richard Skinner and Adaline Van Deventer (dau. of Addison Van Deventer). Richard Skinner's estate appraisal is in Loudoun Co., Va., Will Book H., pp. 312-13, (recorded 9 Jan. 1809). Isaac Skinner, the son of Richard and Addah, had a daughter Elizabeth, born 1795, who is the ancestor of many Fosters in Nelson Co., Ky. Mrs. Baird confuses the Isaac who was the son of Richard and Addah and who lived in Bullitt Co. with the son of Richard Jr. and Mary Bodine, giving the one in Bullitt Co. a wife Hester/ Hattie Middleton, and she mentions only Amos as a child of Richard and Mary.
The following information comes from a document received from Robert P. Moore of Lexington, Kentucky. This could supplement and correct some of the information concerning Mary (Bodine) Skinner.
Death [Spencer Co. - from state vital statistics, which were maintained for a few years in the 1850s and 1870s] Mary Skinner, 76, married, dau. of Isaac and Elizabeth Berden [surely must be Isaac Bodine and Elizabeth Pullen], d. 20 Jan. 1855.
Organization of family of Richard Skinner and Mary Bodine [to supplement and correct Holcombe]
Richard Skinner, b. 3 Oct. 1769, d. 4 Nov. 1823, bur. in McMakin cem. [now destroyed], Chaplin, Nelson Co., Ky., m. 18 March 1801, Nelson Co., Mary Bodine, b. ca. 1778-79, d. 20 Jan. 1855, Spencer Co., Ky., dau. of Isaac Bodine and Elizabeth Pullen.
1. Elizabeth Skinner, m. 3 Dec. 1818, Nelson Co., Ky., Middleton Thomas, b. ca. 1800, d. 2 June 1859, bur. Oldham Co., Kentucky, where he was living in 1850 with second wife Lucy Shirley. He was the son of Benjamin Thomas and Margaret Grigsby who had come from Prince William Co., Va.
2. Amos Skinner, b. 22 Oct. 1805, d. 12 Oct. 1865, m. 24 Feb. 1834, Addah V. Skinner, b. 27 Jan. 1813, d. 7 Feb. 1877, both bur. in Old Bloomfield cem., Bloomfield, Ky.
3. Addah Skinner m. 6 Mar./May 1832, Spencer Co., Ky., Henry Button/Batton.
4. Isaac Skinner, b. ca. 1810, m. 19 July 1855, Spencer Co., Ky., Hester Middleton, dau. of James.