Primary Name: Jameson, Marie Artemisia

Filed as: Jameson, Marie Artemisia

Also known as: Marie Artemisia Lemon; Marie Artemisia Skuse

Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Igloo No. 6

Associated places: Hart, Kentucky; Juneau, Alaska; Seattle, Washington; Nebraska

Keywords: Marie Artemisia Jameson, Marie Skuse, Marie Lemon, Charles James Skuse family, Pioneers of Alaska Igloo 6 charter members, Juneau Alaska pioneers, Hart Kentucky pioneers to Alaska, early Juneau families

Biography

Marie Artemisia Jameson was a Charter Member of the Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Igloo No. 6. She was born in Hart, Kentucky on January 14, 1858.

She first married James F. Lemon, who died sometime before 1880.

On May 2, 1911, she married Charles James Skuse in Seattle, Washington. Their son, George Dewey, had been born earlier in Nebraska in August 1895.

Charles Skuse had previously been married to Florence W. Waters, who left him in 1906. Children from that earlier marriage included Charles L., born February 15, 1898; Florence, born in 1899; and Donald Wesley, born in 1905. These children were born in Juneau, Alaska.

Marie Artemisia Jameson Skuse later resided in Washington State, where she died on September 29, 1951.

Sources

Kentucky Birth Certificate.

Washington Marriage License.

Washington Death Certificate.

1920 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau.