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Facts and Events
Stephen Scaggs
- Stephen Skaggs was licensed as a Baptist minister on July 28, 1806, in Green County, KY.
- Information obtained from James Skaggs Station Article, also articles found in various issues of the Green County Review:
- "Stephen SKAGGS another s/o the founder of SKAGGS' Station had md. Nancy ANDERSON in Nelson Co. on 3 Sep,1799. He was evidently also a Baptist minister as Rev. DOWNS wrote Song #67 "On the death of Stephen SKAGGS".
Green Co. Cir. Court suit #5676 concerns the settlement of Stephen SKAGGS' estate.
His wife was listed as Nancy. The date of his death is given as about the yr. 1814."
- Stephen Skaggs died about 1814, or certainly before Sep 23, 1816, when an order was entered in the Green County Circuit Court Order Book 6, page 196, as follows
- "On motion of William Skaggs, it is ordered that William Barnett, Nathaniel Owens and James Scott be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to divide a tract of land on Brush Creek, Green County, agreeable to quality and quantity which was left by James Skaggs, Senior, deceased, to his three sons, James, Stephen, and Henry, all since departed this life and to divide the said land into three parts so as to allot to the said representatives, heirs of said James Skaggs, Stephen Skaggs and Henry Skaggs, their respective parts of said land."
- Green Co. Deed Bk. 9, pgs. 500-502, dated 9 Oct,1820.
The children of Stephen SKAGGS are listed as - Henry, James, Stephen, Polly STINNET, Jane SKAGGS, Sally SKAGGS & Betsy SKAGGS.
References
- Green County Historical Society (Greensburg, Kentucky). The Kentucky explorer : a history magazine published for Kentuckians everywhere. (Jackson, Kentucky: Kentucky Explorer)
October 1999.
The following was published in the October 1999 edition of the Kentucky Explorer Magazine:
The Editor's noted they had come across old clippings dealing with Kentucky family history. Since these clippings were about 100 years old, they felt they would be of interest to many of their readers:
SKAGGS
Stephen Skaggs was the son of Stephen Skaggs, Sr., who was born in Virginia. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was a Baptist Preacher. His wife's maiden name was Nancy Andrews (or Anders), and his father's name was James Skaggs, a native of Virginia, who came to Kentucky about the time Daniel Boone did. The Skaggses are said to be of Danish Origin and came to Northumbria, England, in the eighth or ninth century, and their descendants afterward emigrated to Scotland, Ireland, and later to the United States.
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