When Eleanor Skinner was born on 11 March 1799, in Prince William, Virginia, United States, her father, Walter M. Skinner, was 39 and her mother, Salina Ann Davis, was 35. She married Anderson Dennison on 12 March 1818, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Harrison, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 August 1883, in Ten Mile District, Harrison, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pleasant Grove Methodist Cemetery, Bristol, Harrison, Virginia, United States.
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English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals to be used in the production of fur garments, or to be tanned for leather, from Middle English skinner ‘skinner’, an agent derivative of Middle English skin(n) ‘hide, pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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