Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon
Ransom Jacob Skillings was born in Fairbank, Iowa, on November 8, 1881, and died at his home in Wallowa on December 7, 1936, after a long and lingering illness.
He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Skillings. With his parents he came to Oregon in 1894 settling in Union where they spent one winter and the next..
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Source: Enterprise Record Chieftain, Enterprise, Oregon, December 17, 1936
Contributed by: Sue Wells
Transcribed by: Belva Ticknor