Brief Life History of Celia
When Celia Skaggs was born on 9 March 1847, in Green, Kentucky, United States, her father, Henry D Skaggs, was 25 and her mother, Virginia Jane Underwood, was 27. She married James Jefferson Bell on 4 February 1864, in Taylor, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 3 Otter Creek, LaRue, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Buffalo, LaRue, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 2 January 1937, in LaRue, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Mount Tabor Church Cemetery, Buffalo, LaRue, Kentucky, United States.
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- Celia ? Bell in household of Jefferson Bell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Celia Skaggs, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Selia S Koggs, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"
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1848
Historical Boundaries: 1848: LaRue, Kentucky, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Skeggs, itself a variant, with post-medieval excrescent -s, of Skegg, a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English skegg ‘beard’ (Old Scandinavian skegg), for someone with a beard. Compare Scaggs .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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