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Claude Skidmore

Birth
District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Death
22 Jan 1866 (aged 12–13)
District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Range 54, Site 237
Memorial ID
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Parents:
James H. Skidmore
Cornelia Lang Skidmore

Grandparents:
George Skidmore
Sarah A. "Sallie" Gardner Skidmore Bayliss
Alexander Lang
Elizabeth Lang

"Drowned: A son of Mr. James Skidmore, aged about 13 years, broke through the ice at Eleventh Street wharf, yesterday afternoon, and was drowned. The body has been recovered."

(SOURCE: Daily National Intelligencer, January 23, 1866)

"Drowned: Yesterday afternoon, as Claude Skidmore, a youth aged about thirteen years, son of Mr. James Skidmore, was skating from the flats opposite Carter’s wharf, at the foot of 13th Street, a freshly-frozen portion of the ice gave way, and he fell into the water. Some of his companions ran out a plank to him, but he failed to get hold of it, and he disappeared. Efforts were at once made to recover the body, and about an hour after it was found under the ice, and carried to his father’s on the Island. The deceased was a fine youth, and his death has cast a gloom over a large circle."

(SOURCE: Evening Star, January 23, 1866)

Parents:
James H. Skidmore
Cornelia Lang Skidmore

Grandparents:
George Skidmore
Sarah A. "Sallie" Gardner Skidmore Bayliss
Alexander Lang
Elizabeth Lang

"Drowned: A son of Mr. James Skidmore, aged about 13 years, broke through the ice at Eleventh Street wharf, yesterday afternoon, and was drowned. The body has been recovered."

(SOURCE: Daily National Intelligencer, January 23, 1866)

"Drowned: Yesterday afternoon, as Claude Skidmore, a youth aged about thirteen years, son of Mr. James Skidmore, was skating from the flats opposite Carter’s wharf, at the foot of 13th Street, a freshly-frozen portion of the ice gave way, and he fell into the water. Some of his companions ran out a plank to him, but he failed to get hold of it, and he disappeared. Efforts were at once made to recover the body, and about an hour after it was found under the ice, and carried to his father’s on the Island. The deceased was a fine youth, and his death has cast a gloom over a large circle."

(SOURCE: Evening Star, January 23, 1866)



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