Hello Swampdog, that was the Mr. Egan Skinner I was referring to. Before Mr. Skinner moved to Charleston, he had lived in N.C. He had bred up a line of old family Lightner dogs crossed to the Bullet dog owned by Bill Cotton. Mr. Teal matched two of them being Teal's Tip and Teal's Susie Q. One of the dogs related to his dogs was Crenshaw's Sad Sack. That played a part in the Carver line of dogs.

You will see another of his dogs called Skinner's, Shivar's or Lopasay's Beanie. Beanie is listed in some of the best producing lines of Lopasay dogs. When I knew Mr. Skinner he was up in age and had lost his best dogs back in N.C. from a bad flash flooding in the area. His property was on a creek.

Mr. Skinner was a lot of fun to be around and liked to give R.Braddock,V.Jackson,Scotty Todd.J. Spruill and self a lot of ribbing about all those curs we were feeding. I asked him one time why he wanted us to roll dogs every time he came to visit. His reply was he was not going to live much longer and wanted to see all the dog action he could. LOL I enoyed his stories about Bob Wallace,Edwards,Earl Tudor,Hemphill,Bill Lightner,George Saddler,Mike Ferris and many other dog men he personally knew in his life time.

Another N.C. transplant to Charleston that was good friends with E. Skinner and self was Scotty Todd. Scotty at that time was a good dog man and a great night club singer. Scotty later got out the dogs and became a Preacher back in N.C. Scotty and self one time went on a dog hunt venture for some of the last old Lightner bred dogs. Scotty knew all the N.C. dog men and run down a nice little brindle bitch called Mousy. Was the last of her kind. Tar Heel Matt remembers a lot about that. Seems Matt may have had a old stud dog of similar or same Lightner breeding but was to old to breed to. Mousy may have been a descendant off that dog.

Eagan asked Scotty to breed Mousy to my Red Nose-Red Brindle Coplin bred Geronimo dog when V.J. had him on his yard. Breeding was made, but a cur dog got to Mousy and bred her as well. That was a lost cause. Egan not long after that passed away. Later Scotty did breed Mousy to my later owned Carver-Creel bred Chuck dog. Saw one of the bitches and a Male. But do not know what became of that litter. The Charleston boys got hush hush about that breeding and never found out what happen to Mousy or what dog men ended up with the dogs. I wanted one of the bitches real bad at the time.

Mr. Skinner and H. Teal were fast friends along with Mr. Medlin and many other older dog men. It was Mr. Skinner,myself and my now deceased first wife that went with Mr. Teal to the dog show matches in Georgia. The one that Mr. Teal had the heart attack at. Mr. Teal made us drive him all the way back to his home in N.C. Would not go to a emergency medical hospital.

Was a long trying ride back home and his Doctor was very mad with him. Had done way more damage to his heart than necessary. Mr. Teal did not live long after that episode.