More Indian Stories: How Skaggs Hole Got its Name

In present-day Dickenson County, Virginia there is a deep spot in the Russell Fork called Skaggs Hole.  The CSX railroad has a bridge over the Russell Fork and a tunnel through the mountain at Skaggs Hole.

A correspondent forwarded a story about Skaggs Hole told by a James Sifers in 1940 in "Pioneer Recollections of Southwest Virginia" by Elihu Jasper Sutherland and Hetty Swindall Sutherland.  I think this James Sifers was the James Colley Sifers born in 1861 and died in Dickenson County in 1948.  Here's what he had to say about Skaggs Hole:
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DNA Testing: Old Peter has joined the Skaggs DNA project

A correspondent who is a descendant of Old Peter Skaggs has submitted Y-37 DNA test results to the Skaggs DNA Project. The results are interesting since Old Peter's descendant matches on the Y-chromosome with descendants of Charles Skaggs the Longhunter, Charles Skaggs of Sims Settlement fame and James C. Skaggs, the Revolutionary War pensioner from South Carolina who settled near Knoxville, Tennessee.

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