Drowned in Mississippi River, in Illinois, in a fall from a steamboat.
Daughter of John Skeele and Phebe Webster.
Served in Civil War; 147th IL Regt. Lived in Provincetown, IL, 1856
He was killed by lightning at Peacham.
3606. Cordelia Athelstone RATHBONE
Some question exsists that Hannah is the daughter of Reuben Miner. The
information was provided by Dollie Hughes Vick. She showed that Hannah Minor
married Anderson Rathbone and that Hannah was born in Woodbury, CT, 8 Apr 1777.The Vital Statistics of Woodbury do not include a Hannah born 8 Apr 1777. The
Rathbun Family Assn reports that Anderson Rathbone's wife was indeed Hannah,
but that her maiden name is definitely not know. Hannah Rathbone's tombstone
in New Berlin, NY, shows that she died 20 May 1859, age 79, so she would have
been born about 1780, not 1777. (See letter from Bill Miner, 7 Jan 1997.)