Sarah Ann Huff was the daughter of John Huff and Elizabeth Rebecca Wells.
She married to widower Andrew Jackson Branham Smith on 13 May 1859 in Letcher County, Kentucky. They bore at least two children: Rebecca Branham Smith (ca. 1862) and John Morgan Smith (ca. 1864).
Andrew was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War when he was captured. Imprisoned as a POW in the Union prison at Camp Douglas in Chicago, IL, he died there in March, 1864.
She married to another Confederate veteran, Elihu Kiser Skeens, on 22 Dec 1868 in Letcher County, Kentucky. Presumably her two children were adopted by their stepfather, as they appear with the Skeens surname in records of the 1880 census and beyond.
According to the censuses (1880 -Pike County, KY and 1900 - Putnam County, WV), Sarah and Elihu had these children:
- Martha E (1868)
- James H (1869)
- Mary Elizabeth (1874)
- Robert/Franklin (1875)
- Helen Cordelia (1878)
- Joseph C (1882)
- Julia (1888)
Sarah Ann Huff was the daughter of John Huff and Elizabeth Rebecca Wells.
She married to widower Andrew Jackson Branham Smith on 13 May 1859 in Letcher County, Kentucky. They bore at least two children: Rebecca Branham Smith (ca. 1862) and John Morgan Smith (ca. 1864).
Andrew was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War when he was captured. Imprisoned as a POW in the Union prison at Camp Douglas in Chicago, IL, he died there in March, 1864.
She married to another Confederate veteran, Elihu Kiser Skeens, on 22 Dec 1868 in Letcher County, Kentucky. Presumably her two children were adopted by their stepfather, as they appear with the Skeens surname in records of the 1880 census and beyond.
According to the censuses (1880 -Pike County, KY and 1900 - Putnam County, WV), Sarah and Elihu had these children:
- Martha E (1868)
- James H (1869)
- Mary Elizabeth (1874)
- Robert/Franklin (1875)
- Helen Cordelia (1878)
- Joseph C (1882)
- Julia (1888)
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