The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Mon 11 Nov 1901, p. 2 — funeral notice for Catherine Hurin Skinner

Transcription and notes

Newspapers.com image 29035278. Maintainer-supplied PDF 2026-06-26. = catalog [p.972].

Data from the document (full text):

FUNERAL OF MRS. SKINNER. DELPHOS, O., Nov. 10 — The funeral of Mrs. Catherine Hurin Skinner, who died in Fort Wayne, was held here yesterday afternoon. Deceased was born at Lebanon, Ohio, November 27, 1800, and had she lived 20 days longer would have attained the remarkable age of 101. Mrs. Skinner was the first white child born at Lebanon, in the first house constructed on the original site of the town by her father, Silas Hurin, who was one of the founders of the First Presbyterian church in Cincinnati.

Note (not on the document): primary-published confirmation of [p.972]'s vitals — b. 27 Nov 1800, Lebanon, Ohio; d. ~7 Nov 1901, Fort Wayne, Ind. ("20 days short of 101"); funeral at Delphos, Ohio, 9 Nov 1901. Father Silas Hurin [p.1501] named. The obituary credits Silas Hurin as "one of the founders of the First Presbyterian church in Cincinnati" — a role the Ludlow genealogies ([I.131]) assign to his father-in-law John Ludlow [p.53] (and the church site to Israel Ludlow); possibly a family-tradition conflation, recorded here as the document states it. Death date primary-source-locked by the Indiana death certificate [F.200].

Cross-references

• p.972 Catherine Cooper Hurin Skinner · father p.1501 · [F.200] (death certificate) · [I.168] (DAR lineage)