Mary Anna Randolph Custis  (1807-1873) (Mrs. Robert E. Lee), 4th cousin
Custis-Lee House, Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
Recent article:  deButts, Robert E. E., Jr., Mary Custis Lee's "Reminiscenses of the War,"
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 109, No. 3, 2001, pp. 301-325.

William Fitzhugh (1650-1701), 7th great grandfather
Owned largest colonial plantation in northern Virginia (Ravensworth, 24,000 acres - now Annandale); attorney, member of the court and militia in Stafford County.

Peter Fontaine (1691-1757) 6th great grandfather
Pastor starting in about 1720 for William Byrd II's Westover Parish Church located 6.5 miles west of Charles City, Virginia

Patrick Henry (Legislator)  1736-1799, 1st cousin

Isaac Hite, Jr. (1756-1836), 4th great grandfather
Husband of Nelly Conway Madison, sister of James Madison; first Phi Beta Kappa graduate of William and Mary College; Lieutenant at siege of Yorktown; builder of Belle Grove Plantation, a National Historical Trust Site near Middletown, Virginia

Samuel Jordan, 10th great grandfather
Jamestown colonist 1609.
Represented Charles City at first representative legislative assembly in the New World, Jamestown, 30 July 1619

Dr. John Julian (1738-1788), 4th great grandfather
Received his medical degree at the Medical College of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1750s).  He later became a partner of Hugh Mercer at an apothecary shop in Fredericksburg, Virginia from 1772 to 1776.   He was a Surgeon in the Continental Army during the revolution from 1776 to 1783 and served periodically as the personal physician of General George Washington who had occupied an office in the apothecary shop.

William Alexander Julian (1860-1949), 2nd cousin
Treasurer of the United States, 1933-1949
Appointed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

James Madison, Jr. (President)  1750-1836, 4th great granduncle
Montpelier Homepage

Matthew Fontaine Maury ('Pathfinder of the Seas')  1806-1873, 3rd cousin
A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S.N. and  C.S.N.  Author of 'Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology.'  Compiled by his Daughter Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin.  London. 1888

Ninion Parker 1841-1901, 2nd great grandfather
Missouri farmer who signed a volunteer enlistment in the U. S. (Union) Army on August 30, 1862 - Third Regiment of Missouri Cavalry Volunteers

George Smith Patton 1885-1945, American General, 5th cousin

Dorothea Payne (Dolley Madison)  1768-1849, 2nd cousin

Mary Scott Skinker(1889-1948)  grandaunt
Mary received her graduate degrees in Zoology (M.S. from Columbia University in 1923 and Ph. D. from George Washington University in 1933).  After receiving her Master's degree, she taught at Pennsylvania Women's College where she mentored the well-known environmental writer Rachel Carson starting in 1925.  Mary and Rachel remained close friends throughout the rest of Mary's life.  Some aspects of her life and career were detailed in the 1997 biography "Rachel Carson. Witness to Nature" by Linda Lear.

Mary Scott Skinker

Thomas Julian Skinker 1819-1900, 2nd great grandfather
Farmer in Stafford County, Virginia.  Served in Company A, 9th Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War.  Wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania Courthouse in May 1864.

Thomas Keith Skinker 1845-1924, 3rd cousin
Author of book on Skinker Family published in 1923.
Skinker Boulevard, which fronts on Washington University in St. Louis is named after him as his father had purchased land in 1843 on what is now part of Forest Park.

William Skinker 1738-1812,  4th great grandfather
Laid out the town plan of Haymarket, Virginia in 1798. He later sold tracts of land to his nephew William Skinker (1769-1845, first cousin) whose portrait hangs in the city hall of Haymarket where he is commemorated as the founder of the town.

Sarah Knox Taylor 1814-1835, 3rd cousin (Mrs. Jefferson Davis)
Sarah died of malaria in Mississippi shortly after her marriage in 1835.  Jefferson Davis grieved for over a decade before eventually remarrying.

Zachary Taylor (President)  1784-1850, 2nd cousin

Francis Wisdom, cousin
One of the early owner/operators of the 'Wisdom'/Dillard Mill in Missouri
Dillard Mill State Park; Dillard Mill History; Dillard Mill Photo
Dillard Mill Framed Prints

Sargent Wisdom 1829-1900, 2nd great grandfather
Blacksmith and farmer.  32nd Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Union Army, Civil War

Matthew Marshall Young (Treasury, Confederate States of America, 1861)
1828-1876, 2nd great grandfather
His signature is on $10 bills dated September 2, 1861.
He was born in Polk County and grew up in Monroe County, Tennessee.  He received his law degree in Montgomery, Alabama and lived in four different states during the Civil War, eventually settling at his wife's (Eliza Olive Inge) hometown of St. Clair, Missouri.  He died on Sept 19, 1876 in St. Louis of yellow fever after a business trip to New Orleans.