This instrument was proved during the Feb 1852 court term, indicating he had died in the intermin.

The William & Mary Quarterly Magazine, Vol XXII, No 1 (Jul1913), has an extensive pedigree on the Stith family, by Armistead Gordon. He stated that Joseph Blair Skinner was killed in action at the Battle of Sharpsburg, Maryland, on 17 Sep 1862. However, in a continuation of the article in a subsequent issue (Vol XXII, No 3, Jan 1914, he also revealed that Skinner's Will was PROVED in Court some ten years earlier. Therefore obviously, the information concerning his death during the War Between the States is an error. Most likely, the individual killed in 1862, was Joseph Skinner, Jr. However, no such individual by that name is recorded by Gordon.