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Lydia Stroud was born in Guilford county, North Carolina. She married Jacob Skeen in 1782, at Shenandoah, Augusta county, Virginia. They had nine children: Betsy, Mary, Sarah, Lucretia, John, Abraham, Jacob, Clarissa, and Lydia. Lydia and husband Jacob were believed to have traveled to Indiana from North Carolina in 1810, about four years after brother Jesse, John and Thomas. Their father, Abraham, also may have made the trip with Lydia and family to Indiana, then he passed away in Harrison Co. Indiana, in 1812. Lydia and Jacob Skeen made their home in Boone Co. Indiana near Thorntown. Later in life, after the death of Jacob, she remarried to Robert Walker. Lydia died in Boone county, Indiana. Lydia Stroud Skeen Walker is buried at Bethel Hill (precinct) Cemetery located at 650N & 400W, near a bend in North Kent Road in Washington township, Boone county, Indiana. Lydia was aged 82 years 8 months 15 days. Born 8 January 1765 and died 23 September 1847.
Anson Mills, "I am of Quaker descent through both parents. Mother's father, William Kenworthy, born 22 January 1780 (presumably in Guilford County, North Carolina), lived about a mile and a half from our place, and died at Thorntown, 31 August 1854. In North Carolina, he married Lucretia, the third child of great grandmother, Lydia Stroud. Lydia was born in 1765, near Guilford Court House, Guilford county, NC. She married Jacob Skeen, and had eight children: Abraham, Mary, Lucretia, Jacob, Clarissa, John, Sarah and Lydia." Anson, a great grandson of Lydia Stroud, in his book entitled My Story, relates the following as told to him by Lydia Stroud. "About 1844, my great grandmother Stroud came to live with us. I remember well the stories she told me of the outrages of Lord Rawdon's troops when he invaded North Carolina with the Hessians and destroyed her father's (Abraham Stroud) property. Her father was once arrested for secreting a neighbor rebel in a sack of wool under the bed, discovered by the Hessians sticking their bayonets into the wool and wounding the rebel. They placed a rope around her fathers neck and were taking him out to hang him, when he was rescued by the sudden arrival of some of General Lee and General Sumter's soldiers. She described, too, her visit to the battle field of the Cowpens near her father's plantation, to care for the wounded, and told of her three brothers1 who served in the Revolutionary Army, one them being killed. She was so vehement in her denunciation of the English and Hessian soldiers that, all my life, I have been intensely prejudiced against the English. Later she (Lydia Stroud) left our house to live with her youngest daughter, Lydia (Mrs. John Frazier) and died there in 1847, aged eighty two." Anson Mills For a chronology of the Life of Anson Mills 1 Brothers believed to have been in the Revolutionary Army were Jesse, John and an unknown third brother. Thomas would have been too young for soldiering. |
