The Skillin Book (1926): A Family Chronicle

Compiled by Edgar Yates, son of Edward M. and Rose Ann (Skillin) Yates

The Skillin Book (1926) is one of the most ambitious privately compiled family histories in our collection.
It blends oral tradition, early colonial records, wills, land claims, church history, and family Bible
transcriptions into a single narrative—flawed, expansive, and invaluable.

As Edgar Yates himself warned, errors are possible. But perfection was never the goal.
Preservation was.