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1. NAME: Assignments during religious life : 14 Aug 1867 - 14 Aug 1869 St. Vincent Orphanage; 14 Aug 1869 - 14 Aug 1873 St. Catherine Acadeny, Lexington, Ky; 14 Aug 1873 - summer 1886 St. Rose, Uniontown, Ky; 14 Aug 1886 - 20 Jun 1919 St. Mary's
Academy, Paducah, Ky.
2. NAME: Took Habit 15 Aug 1851; Vows 21 Nov 1852.
3. NAME: Sister Beatrice's stations during lifetime...Dec 1855 Louisville Cathedral Free School; Feb 1856 Louisville Orphan asylum; Aug 1858 Paducah, St. Mary's First Group; Aug 1863 Louisville, St. Patrick;s; Jul 1869 Louisville, St. vincent's
Orphanage; July 1870 St. Vincent's, Union County, Kentucky. Aug 1882 Nazareth. During Civil War nursed under Sister Martha Drury at Court House..now known as Central State.
4. NAME: HARDIN COUNTY ORDER BOOK PAGE 635
NAME:
NAME: FEBRUARY 20, 1922
NAME:
NAME: CAME ALBERT SKEES AND AGNES BEELER, ONLY HEIRS OF JOHN L. SKEES, DECEASED, AND WAIVED THIER RIGHTS TO QUALIFY AS ADMINISTRATORS HEREIN AND ON THEIR MOTION ITI SI ORDERED THAT M.C. SKEES, AND HE IS HEREBY APPOINTED ADMINISTRATOR OF JOHN LEWIS
SKEES, DECEASED.
NAME:
NAME:
NAME: CAMES SAID M.S. SKEES AND EXCUTED TONE IN THE PENAL SUM OF $8000.00 WITH ALBERT SKEES AND W.C. MONTGOMERY AS SECURITIES, THE BOND WAS ACCEPTED AND APPROVED BY THE COURT.
NAME:
NAME: CAME M.C. SKEES AND TOOK THE OATH AS REQUIRED BY LAW.
NAME:
NAME: IT IS ORDERED THAT WELLER HODGES, TAYLOR CARROLL, AND JAMES MARRIOTT, OR ANY OF THE TOW OF THEM, AFTER FIRST BEING DULY SWORN AND THEY ARE HEREBY APPAOINTED APPRAISORS OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN L. SKEES, DECEASED.
5. NAME: kept house for the priest in st. patrick for sevral years.
6. NAME: DEED BOOK 5 HARDIN COUNTY PAGE 519
NAME:
NAME: JULY 26, 1862
NAME:
NAME: JOHN A. SKEES AND ELEANOR TO WILLIAM L. HILL, ALL OF HARDIN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. $40. FOR 1/2 ACRE TRACT ONT HE WATERS OF NOLIN NEAR WHITE MILLS.
7. NAME: HARDIN COUNTY ORDER BOOK
NAME: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1865
NAME:
NAME: INVENTORY OF THE SALE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN A. SKEES, DECEASED, WAS PRODUCED IN COURT AND ORDERED TO BE RECORDED
NAME:
NAME: WEDNESDAY JUNE 26, 1866
NAME:
NAME: ELISHA SKEES, INFANT ORPHAN OVER 14 YEARS OF AGE OF JOHN A SKEES, DECEASED, CANE INTO COURT AND BEING PERMITD, CHOSE THOMAS BRADLE HIS GUARDINA, THEREUPON SAID GUARDIAN TOK THE OATH REQUIRED BY LAW ADN EXCUTED BOND WITH JAMES BRADLEY AND BEN
HUGHES , HIS SECURITIES
NAME:
NAME: ORDER BOOK P MONDAY AUGUST 15, 1864
NAME:
NAME: ON MOTION OF BENJAMIN A. HATFIELD, ADMINISTRATOR OF JOHN A. SKEES, DECEASED, IT IS ORDERED THAT D.J. SNYDER, NATHAN NEIGHBORS, AND J.B. MARRIOTT BE, AND THEY ARE HEREBY APPOINTED APPRAISERS OF SAID ESTATE
NAME:
NAME: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1864
NAME: INVENTORY OF THE APPRAISMENT OF JOHN A. SKEES, DECEASED, EAS PRODUCED IN COURT AND ORDERED TO BE RECORDED
NAME:
NAME: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1865
NAME:
NAME: JOHN. F. SKEES, INFANT ORPHAN OF JOHN A. SKEES, DECEASED, OVER THE AGE OF 14 YEARS CAME INTO COURT AND BEING PERMITTED CHOSE DANIEL J. SNDER, HIS GUARDIAN AND THEREUPON SAID GUARDIAN TOOK THE OATH REQUIRED BY LAW AND EXCUTED BOND WITH MOSES
TERRY , HISSECURITY.
8. NAME: mentally retarded.
9. NAME: ELIZABETHTOWN NEWS FEBRUARY 22, 1901
NAME:
NAME: HARCOURT
NAME:
NAME: MR. PHILLIP SKEES PASSED AWAY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, AT HIS HOME NEAR WHITE MILLS. HIS REMAINS INTERRED IN THE CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
NAME:
NAME: MR. SKEES HAD BEEN AN INVALID FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, BUT HIS DEATH WAS HASTENED BY A SEVERE ATTACK OF GRIP.
NAME:
NAME: WE SYMPATHIZE WITH THE SORROWING FAMILY.
10. NAME: died from bite of rabid dog.
11. NAME: died from apoplexy.
12. NAME: died in childbirth along with stillborn child.
13. NAME: died 2 weeks after the birth of william robert.
14. NAME: ELIZABETHTOWN NEWS TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1943 MRS. NANCY GATTON DIED AT 88 YEARS.. Mrs. Nancy Ellen Gatton, aged 88 years, the widow of James Gatton, died Saturday noon, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.H. Brown, in Saint John after an
illness of several months. Funeral and burial services were held yesterday morning at Saint John Catholic Church and cemetery by Reverend W. I. Collins, pastor; Reverand N. A. Voll, Cecilian; and Reverand D. Authermann, Louisville. Mrs.
Gatton leaves 2 sons- Charles of Cecilian, and James of Vertress; and 3 daughters: Miss Stella Gatton of Louisville, Mrs. W.T. Haywood , Los Angeles; and Mrs. Brown, and one brother, William Wooldridge of Denver.
15. NAME: the famly lived in Auburn , Illinois in 1887
NAME: Newkirk, Colorado in 1905
NAME: Weld, Colorad in 1913 before returning to illinois.
16. NAME: Married on this date in the catholic church. Had been married by a preacher some years earlier.
17. NAME: Died of burn received when pulled large pot of coffee on self during family gathering.
18. NAME: shot by brother-in-law "pink" hatfield for alleged spouse abuse.
19. Robert Zwicker and John Stewart. The Peakes of Nelson County.
20. NAME: died in the fu epidemic.
21. NAME: died in the service during world war II.
22. NAME: died in anutmobile accident.
23. NAME: HARDIN COUNTY WILL BOOK K PAGE 235
NAME:
NAME: THIS IS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT; FEBRUARY 1, 1958
NAME:
NAME:
NAME: AFTER MY DEATH ALL MY REAL, PERSONAL, AND MIXED PROPERTY, I LEAVE TO MY HUSBAND, JAMES R. SKEES.
NAME:
NAME: IF MY HUSBAND IS DECEASED AT MY DEATH, THE REAL, PERSONL, AND MIXED PROPERTY I WISH TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED AMONG MY 5 CHILDREN:
NAME: ANNA LOUISE BISHOP
NAME: FRANCIS RAYMOND SKEES
NAME: JAMES WILLIAM SKEES
NAME: DOROTHY MARGARET BALLARD
NAME: LEONA MARIE SKEES
NAME:
NAME: MY ADMINSITRATOR WITHOUT BOND WILL BE JAMES WILLIAM SKEES.
24. NAME: SKEES
NAME:
NAME: MAURICE C. SKEES, BELOVED HUSBAND OF REBECCA, NEE SKEES, DEAR FATHER OF JOSEPH O., WILLIAM M., MARGARET DOLAN, ANN, LILLIAN, AND ROSALINE SKEES. MEMBER OF THE HOLY NAME SOCIETY. FUNERAL FROM THE CHAPEL, 4186 MADISON STREET, FRIDAY AT 10 A.M.
TO ST. MEIS CHURCH. INTERMET MOUNT CARMEL.
25. NAME: COURIER JOURNAL SUNDAY AUGUST, 21, 1983
NAME:
NAME: LORETTO.......SISTER MARY ELLENITA PEAK, 76, DIED SATURDAY IN LOUISVILLE. FUNERAL 10:30 AM MONDAY, LORETTO MOTHERHOUSE CHAPEL IN NERIX. VISITATION AT THE MOTHERHOUSE WILL BE AFTER 1PM SUNDAY. MATTINGLY FUNERAL HOME HERE IS IN CHARGE OF
ARRANGMENTS.
26. NAME: ST. IGNATIUS CHURCH RECORDS
NAME:
NAME: JUNE 10, 1898
NAME:
NAME: HAVING RECEIVED THE NECESSARY DISPENSATION OF MIXED RELIGIONS, I MADE VALID THE MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM HARLEY SKEES AND LENORE SHIVELY PREVIOUSLY CONTRACTED BEFORE A SQUIRE.
27. NAME: died in influenza epidemic.
28. NAME: LONGMONT TIMES CALL MAY 31, 1960
NAME:
NAME: THOMAS P SKEES DIES AT AGE 79
NAME:
NAME: THOMAS P SKEES, 79, OF 419 ATWOOD STREET, DIED MONDAY AFTER BEING IN FAILING HEALTH FOR 2 YEARS.
NAME:
NAME: BORN SEPTEMBER 1, 1880 IN WHITE MILLS, KENTUCKY, MR. SKEES MOVED TO ILLINOIS BEFORE COMING TO COLORAD IN 1915. HE FARMED NESR MEAD FOR A TIME AND LATER EAST OF LONGMONT FOR MANY YEARS. HE RETIRED AND MOVED TO TOWN IN 1951.
NAME:
NAME: SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, J. DELBERT SKEES OF ROUTE# 4 LONGMONT; A DAUGHTER MRS. JUANITA BRIGHAM OF DENVER; TWO BROTHERS, HARLEY OF ELIZABETHTOWN, KENTUCKY AND GROVER OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 4 GRANDCHILDREN AND 6 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND
SEVERAL NEICES AND NEPHEWS.. HIS WIFE, MARY M. SKEES, DEID DECEMBER 14, 1957, HE WAS A MEMBER OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH. ROSARY SERVICES WILL BE WEDENSDAY AT 7:30 PM AT LEWELLEN CHAPEL AND REQUIEN MASS THURSDAY AT 9 AM AT SAINT
JOHN CHURCH. BENEDICTINE FATHERS OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WILL BE IN MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY.
29. NAME: LONGMONT TIMES CALL DECEMBER 14, 1957
NAME:
NAME: MRS. MARY SKEES DIES EARLY TODAY
NAME:
NAME: MARS. MARY M SKEES, 71 YEAR OLD LONGMONT WOMAN, DIED IN A HOSPITAL IN LONGMONT AT 6:55 AM TODAY. HER HOME WAS AT5 419 ATWOOD STREET.
NAME:
NAME: MRS. SKEES, A NATIVE OF BIG CLIFTY, KENTUCKY, WAS BORN MAY 20, 1886. SHE WAS MARRIED TO THOMAS P. SKEES IN THAT CITY JUNE 28, 1904. THEY CAME TO LONGMONT FROM ILLINOIS IN 1915 AND FARMED EAST OF LONGMONT UNTIL ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO WHEN THEY
MOVED INTO LONGMONT.
NAME:
NAME: SHE WAS A MEMEBER OF ST JOHN CATHOLIC CHURCH. IN FAILING HEALTH THE PAST YEAR, MRS. SKEES HAD BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL ONE WEEK.
NAME:
NAME: SURVIVORS IN ADDITION TO HER HUSBAND ARE ONE SON DELBERT J. SKEES , ROUTE # 4 LONGMONT, ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. ARTHUR ( JUANITA) BRIGHAM , DENVER, THREE SISTER, MRS BETTY GREEN, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, MARS. FRANCES BRANNAN, CYNTHIANNA, KENTUCKY, AND
MRS. GENEVA MULHALL CHARLESTOWN, INDIANA; 4 GRANDCHILDREN AND 4 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
NAME:
NAME: REQUIEM MASS WILL BE HELD TUESDAY AT 9 AM FROM ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE BENEDICTINE FATHERS OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WILL BE IN MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY. ROSARY SERVICES WILL BE HELD MONDAY AT 8 PM FROM LEWELLEN CHAPEL/.
30. NAME: self- inflicted gsw.
31. NAME: ELIZABETHTOWN NEWS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1918 GATTON-THOMAS WEDDING TOOK PLACE THIS MORNING. A marriage of interest is that of Hardin Thomas and Miss Georgia Gatton which was solomnized at 9 o'clock this morning at Saint Ambrose Church
in Cecilian. The Reverend D. Autermann officated. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. James Gatton. Mr. AThomas is the son of the late W.R. Thomas.
32. NAME: COUNTY ORDER BOOK 6 HARDIN COUNTY PAGE 3 ON MOTION OF MRS. NANCY E. GATTON, GRANDMOTHER, IT IS ORDERED THAT JOHN H. BROWN BE AND HE IS HEREBY APPOINTED GUARDIAN FOR CLARENCE, STELLA, NANNIE, ETHEL, AGNES, AND DELPHEN THOMAS, INFANTS UNDER 14
YEARS OF AGE. WHEREUPON HE TOOK THE OATH REQUIRED BY LAW AND EXCUTED BOND IN THE PENAL SUM OF $200. WITH HENRY TAYLOR AND BRYAN VESSELLS AS SECURITIES. THE BOND IS ACCEPTED AND APPROVED BY THE COURT.
33. NAME: will book g page 513 hardin county will book december 13, 1913 Cecilia, Kentucky THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THERESA A THOMAS...AT MY DEATH I WANT OLL OF MY REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY SOLD AND ALL MY DEBTS PAID. I WANT TO HAVE
20 MASSESS SAID. I WANT A DOUBLE MONUMENT TO OUR GRAVES. I WANT FATHER DELPHEN AUTHERMANN TO TAKE MY YOUNGEST BOY, DELPHIN, TO RAISE. I WANT ALL THE GIRL CHILDREN PUT IN A CATHOLIC INSTITIUTE TO BE EDUCATED. I WANT A GOOD HOME PROVIDED FOR
CLARENCE. I WANT J.H. BROWN APPOINTED ADMINISTRATOR OF MY ESTATE AND GUARDIAN OF MY CHILDREN.. THERESA THOMAS.
34. NAME: lived in peublo, colorado.
35. NAME: influenza epidemic.
36. NAME: living in New Brunswick , New Jersey.
37. NAME: living in Lancaster, California in 1990.
38. Eva Mae Brown.
39. Authors own words!.
40. NAME: died in drowning accident with brother, david j. bader.
41. NAME: died in drowning accident with brother, paul david bader.
42. NAME: died from complications of leukemia.
43. NAME: died in auto accidnet.
44. NAME: published FAMILY STEPPING STONES in the 1930's
NAME: starting point for all descendants of Richard Skees.
45. NAME: LONGMONT TIMES CALL AUGUST 24, 1981
NAME:
NAME:
NAME: DELBERT SKEES
NAME:
NAME: DELBERT SKEES, 75 OF 1820 EMERY STREE, DIED SATURDAY AT LONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL AFTER A SUDDEN ILLNESS.
NAME:
NAME: HE WAS BORN AUGUST 25, 1905 IN RICHARDS, OKLAHOMA TO TOM AND MARY PEARCE SKEES. HE WAS MARRIED ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1926 IN DENVER TO FERN TERRY.
NAME:
NAME: MR. SKEES WAS A FARMER, WORKING SOUTH EAST OF LONGMONT FOR MANY YEARS UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1970. HE ATTENDED MEAD AND LONGMONT SCHOOLS. MR. SKEES CAME TO THE LONGMONT AREA IN 1914 WITH HIS PARENTS FROM OKLAHOMA, AND WAS A MEMBER OF ST.
JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH. SURVIVIORS, HIS WIFE OF LONGMONT, SON, DANIEL SKEES, LONGMONT, DAUGHTER, MRS. BILL(BETTY) TAYLOR, LAKEWOOD, A SISTER JUANITA BRIGHAM, DENVER, 4 GRANDCHILDREN AND 2 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
NAME:
NAME: A ROSARY WIL BE SAID AT 7:30 PM TUESDAY AT THE AHLBERG CHAPEL. A MASS OF THE CHRISTIAN BURIAL WILL BE CELEBRATED AT 10 AM WEDNESDAY AT ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH. BOTH SERVICES WILL BE OFFICIATED BY REVEREND STEPHEN PADILLA OF SAINT
JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH. INTERMENT WILL BE IN MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY. VISITIATAION WILL BE HELD ALL DAY TUESDAY AT ALBERG FUNERAL CHAPEL.
46. NAME: LONGMONT DAILY CALL AUGUST 28, 1928
NAME:
NAME: JUANITA SKEES BRIDE OF ARTHUR BRIGHAM OF DENVER
NAME:
NAME: MISS JUANITA SKEES, DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. THOMAS P SKEES, WAS MARRIED MONDAY MORNING TO ARTHUR BRIGHAM OF DENVER AT NUPTIAL HIGH MASS AT ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CAHTOLIC CHURCH, AT THE EARLY HOUR OF 7 AM. THE BRIDE WAS ATTRACTIVELY GOWNED IN A
DARK BLUE SUIT WITH A BLUE VELVET HAT TO MATCH. SHE WORE LIGHT HOSE AND BLACK SLIPPERS AND CARRIED A BOUQUET OF ORANGE BLOSSOMS AND LILLIES OF THE VALLEY. SHE WAS ATTENDED BY MISS ROSANA GOWDEN, WHO ALSO WORE A BLUE SUIT AND HAT TO MATCH.
LAVERNE LEE ACTED AS THE BEST MAN. LITTLE HAZEL GOWDEN WAS THE RING BEARER. SHE WAS DRESSED IN PINK AND WHITE AND CARRIED THE RING IN A PINK ROSE.
NAME:
NAME: AFTER THE CEREMNONY, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF THE COUPLE ATTENDED A WEDDING BREAKFAST AT THE HOME OF THE BRIDES' PARENTS 9 MILES EAST OF LONGMONT.
NAME:
NAME: MR. AND MRS WIL MAKE THEIR HOME IN DENVER.
47. NAME: killed in a plant accident.
48. NAME: killed in auto accident in the 80's.
49. NAME: sel inflicted gsw to the head.
50. GEDCOM file imported on 11 Oct 2002.
51. NAME: Downs syndrome.
52. NAME: living casper, wyoming.
53. NAME: died after being struck by car.
54. NAME: LONGMONT LEDGER MARCH 9, 1928
NAME:
NAME:
NAME: BIRTHS
NAME:
NAME:
NAME: SKEES-------------IN LONGMONT, MONDAY, MARCH 5 TO MR. AND MRS. DELBERT SKEES, A DAUGHTER.
55. NAME: LIVED IN LAKEWOOD, COLORADO.