DIED
Of pneumonia at her home two miles north of Fayetteville, on the morning of the 16th of February, 1886, Mrs. Polly
Skelton, in the 80th year of her age.
The deceased was well favorably known to all the old settlers of this county. She and her husband, Wm. Skelton, came from Tennessee to this county in the summer of 1830, and built a cabin in the woods where the old Dutchman Smith’s garden — now owned by John Jacobson — is located.
She had lived within sight of where she first settled for 55 years. She was the mother of 10 children, all of whom lived to be grown up men and women.
She had three sons and seven daughters. All of her sons went into the Confederate army. One was killed in the battle of Elk Horn and one in the battle of Corrinth, Miss. Her oldest son, John Skelton, yet lives near Fayetteville.
She was burried [sic] at the Mt. Comfort grave yard Wednesady [sic] at 11 o’clock.
— Fayetteville Weekly Democrat, Feb. 18, 1886; page 2