Notes for WILLIAM H SKIDMORE:

Son of ? and ?.
Born: 1832 in Franklinville, Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Died: December 1, 1896 in Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Buried: Huntington Rural Cemetery, Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Married: (1) Antoinette Buffett 1857 in Unknown.
(2) Mary S Velsor October, 1869 in Unknown.

Husband of Antoinette Buffett of Woodbury, Queens {now Nassau} County, Georgianna Hudson of Wading River, Suffolk County {m. 1857} & Mary S. Velsor [1838-1886] {m. 24 October 1869}; "as a young man was engaged in menhaden fishing industry"; moved to Huntington, Suffolk County in 1865 & went into the butchering business; later into the express business on steamboats between Cold Spring Harbor & Huntington running to New York City; operated express office in Huntington Village for "nearly twenty years"; "uncompromising Republican" who served on the Suffolk County Republican Committee; member of the Jephta Lodge F & A Masons; under-sheriff of Suffolk County; died at Huntington a "sudden death" from apoplexy.