Nehemiah Herishiser Skyles (1837-1918)

Nehemiah Herishiser Skyles (June 22, 1837 - December 3, 1918) was a reverend. He was born on June 22, 1837 in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania to Jacob Skyles and Elinor Hershizer. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1860, and from the seminary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1862. He married Emma Nycum (1848-1918) around 1865 and they had six children: Mary Ella Skyles (1867-1952), Eugene Pierre Skyles (1870-1939), Major William W. Skyles (1872-1939), Henry Skyles (1875-?), John Russell Skyles (1878-?), and Charles Calvin Skyles (1881-?). He died on December 3, 1918 in Woodstock, Virginia.