Zachariah Skaggs: Mistaken Identity

Too many fake family trees on the internet are changing reality. A specific case of this for Skaggs researchers is Zachariah Skaggs. The internet seems convinced that the Zachariah Skaggs who lived in Virginia in the late 1700s to 1818 was married to a Nancy Annie Wilcox. I've posted about this error before and how two Zachariahs from different times and places and two Nancys have been confounded into a fake marriage of a young Kentucky girl, Nancy Wilcox, with a dead Virginian, Zachariah Skaggs. So once again:

  • Zachariah Skaggs from Russell County, VA, father of Jeremiah, was married to a Nancy (Annie), but NOT Nancy Wilcox, and he died in Virginia in 1818
    • Born prior to 1747, likely in Maryland
    • Heir-at-law to John Scaggs who died in Montgomery County, Virginia c. 1779
    • Estate passed to grandson John Skaggs in Russell County in 1818
  • Zachariah Skaggs, from Barren County, KY, grandson of John Skaggs, the disabled war veteran from the family of Long Hunters, was married to Nancy Wilcox in Kentucky in 1822
    • Born in 1801 in Kentucky
    • Died in Bartholomew County, Indiana c.1830
    • Widow Nancy Skaggs appeared in the 1830 Bartholomew County census
    • Widow Nancy (also known as Anna) Skaggs remarried in 1832 to Daniel Reynolds in Bartholomew County, Indiana
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