Sue Harris wrote:
When I started working on the Skinners, I had Isaac's wife as Hattie Middleton, from Irving Parks' book "The Skinner Family." Then I discovered Isaac married Margaret Pullen, so I thought maybe the Parks book was wrong. Around 1990-1993, I worked with Rae Walton, on a book she was writing about her father-in-law's ancestors, which was finally published in 1994. His mother was Anna Davis Greer, sister of Margaret Foster Greer, so we had all the same families in Nelson County. Anna Davis Greer Walton wrote some papers, handed down through the family, saying her great-grandmother was Peggy Pullen Skinner, who died when Anna's grandmother Elizabeth was two years old, and that her great-grandfather Isaac Skinner then remarried on February 15 1777, Hattie Middleton, who raised Elizabeth as her own child. We were not able to find the marriage record, either in Loudoun County or Kentucky. According to her tombstone, Elizabeth Skinner was born on August 5, 1775; so if her father married Hattie on February 15, 1777, she was only about 1-1/2 years old when her father remarried, but we accepted Anna's account. According to Isaac Skinner's R.W. pension application, he served from Loudoun County, and only came to Bullitt County about 1793; so it doesn't all add up as to just when he went to Bullitt County, but I don't think he went there until after the war, at least.
Sam McDowell wrote a book, "Fort Knox Cemeteries in Bullitt, Hardin & Meade Counties, Kentucky" (1975). I'll copy a little: "The Mt. Eden cemetery is on the south side of Hwy 44 west of Shepherdsville near the Mt. Eden Church. In 1957 the U. S. Army acquired 5500 acres in Bullitt County at the north edge of the reservation. Most of the cemeteries were moved from that tract of land to Mt. Eden Cemetery.... Among those buried there are Isaac Skinner and his wife Elizabeth (sic). He came from Loudoun County in 1775, discovered the salt licks (in Bullitt Co.) and served in the Rev. War. In 1781, when he returned from the war, he purchased 400 acres in the Mt. Eden community. He died in 1841 and was preceded in death by his wife in 1830." In Isaac Skinner's R.W. pension application, filed July 1833, he says he enlisted from Loudoun County in 1780, and he had resided in Bullitt County for 40 years. That would have him arriving in Bullitt County in 1793, but I think he must have arrived at least by 1781. I haven't read Bullitt County deeds, which might clear up his arrival date. We easily found the cemetery and the few Skinner stones there (butshe did not find those of Isaac and Hattie).
Irving Parks' book says Hattie Middleton was of Shelby County, Kentucky - but Isaac must have married her in Loudoun County, Virginia, if he married her in 1777.