Daniel Skidmore remained on the home farm with his father and received a common school education. He was married 7 March 1894 to Letitia Pettigrew, daughter of Charles P. and Margaret Jenkins Pettigrew of Nodaway county. Her parents were natives of Ireland and they came to this country about 1865. He volunteered his services in the Civil War. Charles and Margaret had ten children.
Daniel began his married life on his father's farm, near Guilford, and after five years of work there, he moved to a farm belonging to his father in Grant township and later purchased this place of his father. It consists of two hundred acres, lying one and one-half miles west of Guilford. It is second bottom land and gently rolling and is regarded as one of the best farms in the county, the land being in an excellent state of cultivation and fine crops are his reward. Mr. Skidmore has devoted special attention to the breeding and raising of hogs. He has ten acres planted in apple trees, all now bearing. Dan and Letitia were members of the Baptist church. Three children: Daniel E., born 25 Aug. 1895; Joseph C., born 13 Dec. 1899; and Velma born 11 Jan 1905. (Taken from Past and Present of Nodaway Co. MO written in 1910)
Daniel began his married life on his father's farm, near Guilford, and after five years of work there, he moved to a farm belonging to his father in Grant township and later purchased this place of his father. It consists of two hundred acres, lying one and one-half miles west of Guilford. It is second bottom land and gently rolling and is regarded as one of the best farms in the county, the land being in an excellent state of cultivation and fine crops are his reward. Mr. Skidmore has devoted special attention to the breeding and raising of hogs. He has ten acres planted in apple trees, all now bearing. Dan and Letitia were members of the Baptist church. Three children: Daniel E., born 25 Aug. 1895; Joseph C., born 13 Dec. 1899; and Velma born 11 Jan 1905. (Taken from Past and Present of Nodaway Co. MO written in 1910)
Daniel Skidmore remained on the home farm with his father and received a common school education. He was married 7 March 1894 to Letitia Pettigrew, daughter of Charles P. and Margaret Jenkins Pettigrew of Nodaway county. Her parents were natives of Ireland and they came to this country about 1865. He volunteered his services in the Civil War. Charles and Margaret had ten children.
Daniel began his married life on his father's farm, near Guilford, and after five years of work there, he moved to a farm belonging to his father in Grant township and later purchased this place of his father. It consists of two hundred acres, lying one and one-half miles west of Guilford. It is second bottom land and gently rolling and is regarded as one of the best farms in the county, the land being in an excellent state of cultivation and fine crops are his reward. Mr. Skidmore has devoted special attention to the breeding and raising of hogs. He has ten acres planted in apple trees, all now bearing. Dan and Letitia were members of the Baptist church. Three children: Daniel E., born 25 Aug. 1895; Joseph C., born 13 Dec. 1899; and Velma born 11 Jan 1905. (Taken from Past and Present of Nodaway Co. MO written in 1910)
Daniel began his married life on his father's farm, near Guilford, and after five years of work there, he moved to a farm belonging to his father in Grant township and later purchased this place of his father. It consists of two hundred acres, lying one and one-half miles west of Guilford. It is second bottom land and gently rolling and is regarded as one of the best farms in the county, the land being in an excellent state of cultivation and fine crops are his reward. Mr. Skidmore has devoted special attention to the breeding and raising of hogs. He has ten acres planted in apple trees, all now bearing. Dan and Letitia were members of the Baptist church. Three children: Daniel E., born 25 Aug. 1895; Joseph C., born 13 Dec. 1899; and Velma born 11 Jan 1905. (Taken from Past and Present of Nodaway Co. MO written in 1910)
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