The Long Hunters: Jacob Skaggs

I've tried to avoid the Skaggs Long Hunters, since so much has been written about Henry, Richard and Charles I didn't think I could add much of value.  However, I'm finding a lot of poor information out there about the Long Hunters so I thought I would wade into the shallow end of the Long Hunter pool and discuss what I know about Jacob Skaggs, the youngest and least researched of the brothers.

Zachariah Skaggs and the D.A.R.

I found a post in the January 2008 Rootsweb archive that is interesting for documented descendants of Zachariah Skaggs.  Zachariah was accepted as a patriot by the genealogists of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.), so if you can document a connection to Zachariah, you are eligible for D.A.R. membership.

Bible Entries for the Sims Settlement Scaggs

I have been scrolling back through the history of the Rootsweb Skaggs list and found an entry regarding one of the Sims Settlement Scaggs families.  This October 2008 entry seems long forgotten.  A poster to the old Genealogy.com Genforum board claimed to possess a Williams family bible with two Scaggs entries in it.

Who Were the Wayne County West Virginia Scaggs?

There were groups of Scaggs families who showed up in Wayne County, Virginia in the 1850s.  Wayne is now the West Virginia county across the Tug Fork from Lawrence County, Kentucky, the ancestral home of the Big Sandy Skaggs descended from Old Peter.  Who were these Scaggs families and were they related to Old Peter?