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History of
Greenbrier County
JAMES MONROE SKAGGS, the fourth child of Alexander Sanford Skaggs is the subject of this sketch. He was born at Clintonville, September 4, 1843, and was reared a farmer. His education was begun in the country schools and completed by a two years' course at Frankford. Soon after the breaking out of the war, he enlisted in the Fourteenth Virginia Cavalry, connecting his destinies in that terrible struggle with Company K, serving in the capacity of a corporal. His regiment was a part of the division of General W. H. F. Lee, in the cavalry corps of Fitzhugh Lee, and he served four years. He saw much service around Winchester, Va., in all having participated in three engagements in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He was captured near Winchester, Va., in November, 1864, and was a prisoner of war until July 6, 1865. Returning home at the close of the war, Mr. Skaggs engaged as a merchant, in which business he continued until he retired from active pursuits in life, in 1912. He was a member of the firm of Fell & Skaggs, in Lewisburg, and since that time, in all twenty eight years, was in charge of a general store of his own at Hughart. In the meantime he engaged extensively in farming, owning and managing a large stock farm. On January 1, 1916, he was elected president of the Greenbrier Bank, with which he had been connected as a director since its formation, in 1897. Mr. Skaggs was married to Estelline S. McClintick, daughter of Rev. Robert McClintic, of the Methodist Episcopal church. on November 24, 1874. She died March 12, 1904. Two children were the fruit of this union, one dying in infancy. The second child, Alexander Sanford Skaggs, born June 4, 1883, is in charge of the home place at Hughart. He received his education at Staunton, Va.
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