The Mt. Hermon Cemetery was originally known as the Skiles Cemetery. Possibly two of the oldest people buried there were known as Old Uncle Billy and Aunt Rachel Skiles who lived one mile south. Their graves are surrounded by a rock wall in the southwest section of the cemetery. The graves once had a shingle cupola over them which is now gone.
Source: Coy E. Skiles biograpy
Note by K. Nelson:
Billy Skiles may be William Skyles/Skiles b. 1799 who was a brother to Peter Joseph Skiles b. 1813 d. 1891 and Susan (Skiles) Click b. 1814 d. 1894, they are also buried in the Mount Hermon cemetery. Their parents are believed to be William Skyles, Jr. and 2nd wife Elizabeth Miller.
William "Billy" and wife Rachel Skiles raised Edmund Harrison Brigman and his two sisters Lucinda and Sarah Brigman.
The following information is from a biography published in the Ozark Heritage, Dent Co., MO History Book Vol. I, page 456. Edmund Harrison Brigman's parents names are not known. When Edmund's father died, Edmund's mother abandoned him and two sisters Lucinda and Sarah Brigman. Since there were no orphanages, the state authorities bound the children out to Billy and Rachel Skiles, who brought them to a farm near Mt. Hermon (community) in Dent County, Missouri, sometime before the Civil War.
Edmund Harrison Brigman, married Nancy McNeill. They homesteaded the farm near Rhyse, MO where Columbus and Susan (Brigman) Mason lived and is now (1978) owned by Lloyd Roberts. They (Edmund and wife Nancy Brigman) moved there when Janet (Brigman) Arnett was a baby. Their first home was a log cabin with no closing door and only a good watchdog for protection. End of biography.
Note: Researchers have learned that Edmund Harrison Brigman's parents were Edwin Harrison Brigman and Mary Elizabeth McCellen.
Middle name, birth and death dates and birth and death place are from Bobby Skiles contributor 49367138.
Dent County, Missouri, Wills, Book A, Page 86: Will of William Skiles, dated 28 Feb 1877, all estate to wife Rachel, and after her death to surviving heirs (not named); "After we are both deceased, the executor is to place stones on our graves, and enclose them by a good stone wall ..." ; executrix = wife Rachel; witnesses = M. M. McSpadden, J. D. Reddick & Silas Headrick; recorded 15 Feb 1878.
Source: Coy E. Skiles biograpy
Note by K. Nelson:
Billy Skiles may be William Skyles/Skiles b. 1799 who was a brother to Peter Joseph Skiles b. 1813 d. 1891 and Susan (Skiles) Click b. 1814 d. 1894, they are also buried in the Mount Hermon cemetery. Their parents are believed to be William Skyles, Jr. and 2nd wife Elizabeth Miller.
William "Billy" and wife Rachel Skiles raised Edmund Harrison Brigman and his two sisters Lucinda and Sarah Brigman.
The following information is from a biography published in the Ozark Heritage, Dent Co., MO History Book Vol. I, page 456. Edmund Harrison Brigman's parents names are not known. When Edmund's father died, Edmund's mother abandoned him and two sisters Lucinda and Sarah Brigman. Since there were no orphanages, the state authorities bound the children out to Billy and Rachel Skiles, who brought them to a farm near Mt. Hermon (community) in Dent County, Missouri, sometime before the Civil War.
Edmund Harrison Brigman, married Nancy McNeill. They homesteaded the farm near Rhyse, MO where Columbus and Susan (Brigman) Mason lived and is now (1978) owned by Lloyd Roberts. They (Edmund and wife Nancy Brigman) moved there when Janet (Brigman) Arnett was a baby. Their first home was a log cabin with no closing door and only a good watchdog for protection. End of biography.
Note: Researchers have learned that Edmund Harrison Brigman's parents were Edwin Harrison Brigman and Mary Elizabeth McCellen.
Middle name, birth and death dates and birth and death place are from Bobby Skiles contributor 49367138.
Dent County, Missouri, Wills, Book A, Page 86: Will of William Skiles, dated 28 Feb 1877, all estate to wife Rachel, and after her death to surviving heirs (not named); "After we are both deceased, the executor is to place stones on our graves, and enclose them by a good stone wall ..." ; executrix = wife Rachel; witnesses = M. M. McSpadden, J. D. Reddick & Silas Headrick; recorded 15 Feb 1878.
The Mt. Hermon Cemetery was originally known as the Skiles Cemetery. Possibly two of the oldest people buried there were known as Old Uncle Billy and Aunt Rachel Skiles who lived one mile south. Their graves are surrounded by a rock wall in the southwest section of the cemetery. The graves once had a shingle cupola over them which is now gone.
Source: Coy E. Skiles biograpy
Note by K. Nelson:
Billy Skiles may be William Skyles/Skiles b. 1799 who was a brother to Peter Joseph Skiles b. 1813 d. 1891 and Susan (Skiles) Click b. 1814 d. 1894, they are also buried in the Mount Hermon cemetery. Their parents are believed to be William Skyles, Jr. and 2nd wife Elizabeth Miller.
William "Billy" and wife Rachel Skiles raised Edmund Harrison Brigman and his two sisters Lucinda and Sarah Brigman.
The following information is from a biography published in the Ozark Heritage, Dent Co., MO History Book Vol. I, page 456. Edmund Harrison Brigman's parents names are not known. When Edmund's father died, Edmund's mother abandoned him and two sisters Lucinda and Sarah Brigman. Since there were no orphanages, the state authorities bound the children out to Billy and Rachel Skiles, who brought them to a farm near Mt. Hermon (community) in Dent County, Missouri, sometime before the Civil War.
Edmund Harrison Brigman, married Nancy McNeill. They homesteaded the farm near Rhyse, MO where Columbus and Susan (Brigman) Mason lived and is now (1978) owned by Lloyd Roberts. They (Edmund and wife Nancy Brigman) moved there when Janet (Brigman) Arnett was a baby. Their first home was a log cabin with no closing door and only a good watchdog for protection. End of biography.
Note: Researchers have learned that Edmund Harrison Brigman's parents were Edwin Harrison Brigman and Mary Elizabeth McCellen.
Middle name, birth and death dates and birth and death place are from Bobby Skiles contributor 49367138.
Dent County, Missouri, Wills, Book A, Page 86: Will of William Skiles, dated 28 Feb 1877, all estate to wife Rachel, and after her death to surviving heirs (not named); "After we are both deceased, the executor is to place stones on our graves, and enclose them by a good stone wall ..." ; executrix = wife Rachel; witnesses = M. M. McSpadden, J. D. Reddick & Silas Headrick; recorded 15 Feb 1878.
Source: Coy E. Skiles biograpy
Note by K. Nelson:
Billy Skiles may be William Skyles/Skiles b. 1799 who was a brother to Peter Joseph Skiles b. 1813 d. 1891 and Susan (Skiles) Click b. 1814 d. 1894, they are also buried in the Mount Hermon cemetery. Their parents are believed to be William Skyles, Jr. and 2nd wife Elizabeth Miller.
William "Billy" and wife Rachel Skiles raised Edmund Harrison Brigman and his two sisters Lucinda and Sarah Brigman.
The following information is from a biography published in the Ozark Heritage, Dent Co., MO History Book Vol. I, page 456. Edmund Harrison Brigman's parents names are not known. When Edmund's father died, Edmund's mother abandoned him and two sisters Lucinda and Sarah Brigman. Since there were no orphanages, the state authorities bound the children out to Billy and Rachel Skiles, who brought them to a farm near Mt. Hermon (community) in Dent County, Missouri, sometime before the Civil War.
Edmund Harrison Brigman, married Nancy McNeill. They homesteaded the farm near Rhyse, MO where Columbus and Susan (Brigman) Mason lived and is now (1978) owned by Lloyd Roberts. They (Edmund and wife Nancy Brigman) moved there when Janet (Brigman) Arnett was a baby. Their first home was a log cabin with no closing door and only a good watchdog for protection. End of biography.
Note: Researchers have learned that Edmund Harrison Brigman's parents were Edwin Harrison Brigman and Mary Elizabeth McCellen.
Middle name, birth and death dates and birth and death place are from Bobby Skiles contributor 49367138.
Dent County, Missouri, Wills, Book A, Page 86: Will of William Skiles, dated 28 Feb 1877, all estate to wife Rachel, and after her death to surviving heirs (not named); "After we are both deceased, the executor is to place stones on our graves, and enclose them by a good stone wall ..." ; executrix = wife Rachel; witnesses = M. M. McSpadden, J. D. Reddick & Silas Headrick; recorded 15 Feb 1878.
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