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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
John F. Skinner, youngest son of Roswell and
Theodosia Skinner, was born in Marion County, Ky.,
February 16th, 1839; enlisted for six months in
Capt. James Wrigley's Company, Confederate
States service, in 1861; served the term of his enlistment
on Galveston Island, and then entered
Waul's Legion for three years or during the war;
served in that command until the fall of Vicksburg,
when he was paroled, returned to Texas, and
served again on Galveston Island and coast country
until the close of hostilities. After the war he engaged
in the mercantile business at Liberty, Texas,which he followed at that place until 1883, when he
moved to Lampasas, where he had previously become
interested in the stock business, and which
has since been his home. He is president of the
First National Bank of Lampasas and has ranching
interests in Lampasas County. November 7th,
1871, at Liberty, Texas, Mr. Skinner married Miss
Nannie Hardin, a native of that place and a daughter
of Frank Hardin. The issue of this union has
been five children: Helen, now Mrs. J. F. White,
John F., Jr., Christie O'Brien, Wickliffe and
Ruth.B. E. HURLBUT,
BROWNWOOD.B. E. Hurlbut, son of Eli D. and Emma E.
Hurlbut, was born in Courtland County, N. Y.,
August 22, 1858, and was reared at Windsor,
Henry County, Miss., where his parents settled in
1864. He began his mercantile career in the hardware
house of Huey
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