• General Notes

  Elizabeth died of Consumptiion after an illness of 120 days at the age of 36. She left her husband with 8 children ranging in age from an infant child, aged 4 months, to a daughter age 19.
  
  Elizabeth's great-grandfather was the famed Kentucky Longhunter, Henry Skaggs, about whom much has been written in Kentucky History. He was also a brother of Richard Skaggs, grandfather of William Wesley Clement, making William Wesley and Elizabeth 4th cousins.
  
  Of the five Skaggs brothers who were all Kentucky Longhunters, Elizabeth's great-grandfather, Henry, is perhaps the most famous.  He kept extensive notes of his hunting trips into Kentucky, and it was his notes that helped inspire the interest of Daniel Boone to explore the Kentucky frontier.
  
  Henry Skaggs  served as a guide for Daniel Boone on one of Boone's early trips into Kentucky.    When Elizabeth's father, also named Henry Skaggs, and William Wesley's father, Andrew Clement, moved from Kentucky in the early 1800s, they joined a wagon train of settlers going to Missouri to settle on land granted to Daniel Boone by the government of Spain.  This is the land that would later become the "Louisiana Territory".  By the time the Skaggs and the Clements reached Missouri, Spain had sold the land to France and France had, in turn, sold it to the United States.
  
  Elizabeth is mentioned in her father's will, which is recorded in Osage Co. MO court records, dated 31 Mar 1855 in which he states, "Personal property has already been given to my daughter, Elizabeth Clements, now deceased."

Details of Elizabeth's family with William Wesley CLEMENT