THE HUGH SCOTT FAMILY and connections, of Nottingham township. Tradition says Hugh Scott, Sr., came to Pennsylvania from the North of Ireland, and settled within the bounds of Chester county about the year 1670. The original county of Chester has been divided and sub-divided many times since. Hence we see, in local histories of the Scott family, the names of Lancaster, York, and Adams counties mentioned, area embraced in original Chester, and also Cecil county, MD., contiguous territory. (1) Hugh Scott had a son (2) Abraham (born in Chester county in 1677), who had children: Anne, born October, 1699; Samuel, born about 1705; Rebecca, born December 17, 1707; Alexander, born in 1716 or 1717; Grace; (3) Hugh, born in 1726; (4) Josiah, born in 1735. These two last were among Washington county's early immigrants.
(2) Anne married Arthur Patterson about 1720; Arthur died in 1763, aged sixty-three; his wife died in 1792, aged ninety-two years, three months. Their children were William; Rebecca; Samuel, born 1727, died November 15, 1820, aged ninety-three; Arthur; Ellen; James, born February 7, 1731, died May 19, 1789; aged fifty-eight year, three months; Catherine; Elizabeth; Jane, born 1739, died May 2, 1800.
(2) Rebecca became the second wife of James Agnew, in 1737. They had children: Samuel, born January 29, 1738, married Elizabeth Johnston (they had six children); Martha, born September 9, 1740, married Samuel Patterson (four children); James, born May 1, 1742, married Mary Ramsey (eight children); David, born July 17, 1743, married Mary Erwin (twelve children); Margaret born August 27, 1745, married James Paterson (nine children); Rebecca, born May 3, 1747, married John McLanahan (two children); Sarah, born May 15, 1749,married Archibald Douglas (two children); Abraham, born December 23, 1750, died March 11, 1753; Anne, born October 3, 1753, married Rev. John Smith (ten children); Rev John Smith and family were at one time residents of Washington county. Ephraim Johnston Agnew of Chartiers township, is a grandson of Samuel and Elizabeth Johnston. Dr. Agnew, of Philadelphia (President Garfield's physician), was a descendant of James Agnew, Sr. Smith Agnew, Esq., of New Castle, Penn., who died in September, 1881, age ninety years, was a son of David and Mary Erwin. (3) Hugh Scott, who lived on Millerstown road, five miles from Gettysburg, Penn., was a left-handed blacksmith, and emigrated (as supposed) to Washington county in 1773 or '74. He was certainly here when Dr. McMillan on the third Sabbath of November, 1776, ordained five elders in Pigeon Creek congregation, of whom Hugh Scott was one. His name is also found in the first grand jury panel of October 2, 1781; also one of the four trustees who purchased ground from David Hoge on the 18th of October, 1781, for public buildings for the county. He was commissioned justice of the peace November 8, 1788. He settled on a tract of land in Nottingham township (where his great-grandsons, James Kerr Scott and Hugh C. Scott, yet live), for which he received a patent dated January 23, 1799, in pursuance of a warrant dated September 22, 1788. He died October 11, 1819, aged ninety-three. His wife, Jennett (Agnew) died October 9. 1814, aged seventy-seven. Their graves are still legibly marked in Pigeon Creek graveyard. His sons Abraham and James are said to have returned to Adams county when young men, where they married, lived and died.
(3) Hugh Scott, son of Abraham, born in 1726, married in 1754 to Jennett Agnew, born August 23, 1735, a daughter of his brother-in-law James Agnew, Sr., by a first marriage. Their children were (3) Rebecca, (3) Abraham, (3) James, (3) Hugh, (3) John, (3) Elizabeth, (3) Sarah, (3) Margaret and (3) Josiah.
(3) Rebecca, born March 20, 1756, was married in 1776, to George Van Eman. Their children were (1) Nicholas, born April 7, 1782, married Anne Riddle, and had issue: Andrew, James, George, Samuel, Scott, Oliver, John Cyrus, Martha, Rebecca, Anne, and one other daughter. He was an elder in the church. Lived in Girard, Trumbull Co., Ohio, dying in 1832. (2) Scott and (3) Jane were twins, born May 24, 1783. Scot married Margaret Dawson. Two sons, George and Dawson, lived in Stark county, Ohio; (3) Jane married John Dawson, and lived in Wayne county, Ohio; (4) Andrew, born October 22, 1784, was twice married, first to Elizabeth Haines; issue: Joseph Haines, Eliza, Ann, Mary and Rebecca; Andrew's second marriage was with Jane Van Eman; issue: John and James (both died in youth); Rev. Craig R. married to Miss McLenathan, lives in Burnet county, Texas; Harriet H., married William Walker, died in 1888, lived in Monroe county, Mo.; Andrew died in Canonsburg, Penn.; his wife Jane died at her daughter's home in Missouri.
(5) Rev. George, born April 23, 1786, was twice married, first time to Miss Cooper; issue: John, Cooper, Sarah (who married Mr. Cusic), Anne (who married Mr. Hall), another daughter (a widow) now living in Findlay, Ohio; George's second marriage was to Miss Flannegan; no issue. George was a minister in the Presbyterian Church. In the early days of his ministry he organized the congregation of Newark, Ohio. He died in Findlay, Ohio, March 21, 1877, aged ninety-one.
(6) Rebecca, born December 7, 1787, died January 4, 1822, married Hon. Joseph Lawrence; issue: Joseph, Hon. George V., Sarah and Samuel. Joseph and his wife, Eliza (Horner) died in February 1842, leaving children: Maria, Elizabeth, Rebecca and William. Hon. George V's first marriage was to Miss Welch, in 1839; she died in 1854; two children, Mary V. and Joseph; George V.'s second marriage was to Miss Reed, in 1857; three children, of whom two, George and Carrie Bell, attained mature age; George is since deceased. Hon. George V. was elected representative from Washington county in 1843, 1846, 1858, 1859 and 1892; State Senator in 1848, 1860, 1874, 1876 and 1878; Speaker of the Senate in spring of 1863; and to Congress in 1864 and 1866; delegate-at-large to Constitutional Convention, 1872. Sarah married Ard Moore, now dead. Their children were Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, Robert and Fannie. The mother now lives with her sons in Carthage,Mo. Joseph Lawrence, Sr., was representative in 1818, '19, '20,'21, '22, 23, again in 1834, '35' State Treasurer 1835, member of Congress in 1824 and '26 and in 1840. Died April 17, 1842. Buried in Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
(7) Elizabeth, born May 7, 1789, married David Riddle; issue: Rebecca, John, and others. Lived in Trumbull county, Ohio.
(8) Joseph, born December 12, 1790, married Isabella Logan; issue: James (who died in youth), Rebecca, Samuel, Rev. George, Joseph, Mary, Logan, Cyrus (who died in youth), Margaret, Sarah. Of these (1) Rebecca married John Johnston (both dead); issue: Richard Van Eman, Bradford and John. (2) Samuel died September, 1891, was married to Miss Martha McConnell; issue: two sons James J., and Joseph S. (dead) and two daughters Bell M. and Sadie E. (3) Rev. George married Rachel Bower, second marriage to Elizabeth Pogue. (4) Joseph's first marriage was with Miss Sarah Lea, and his second marriage was with Mary Anne Donaldson; now lives in Delano, Minn.; (5) Mary married Samuel Alexander (now dead); issue: one daughter who died in adult age. (6) Logan married Jane Vance (now dead); issue: Charles, Fannie, Isabella, Joseph and James. (7) Margaret (now dead) married Israel Bebout. (8) Sarah married Samuel Bebout, East End, Pittsburgh. Joseph, Sr., died September 22, 1873; his wife, Isabella, died May 21, 1870; they are buried in Centre Presbyterian churchyard; he was a member of Session in that congregation for many years.
(9) Garrett, born October 3, 1792, was married first to Rachel Logan issue: James, Rebecca, Amelia, Rachel, Bell, Lee, Scott and Margaret; second marriage to Miss Sprowl; was an elder in Raccoon Presbyterian Church; died at Candor, Washington Co., Penn.
(10) William, born June 15, 1794, married Mary Bracken; issue: Rev. Thomas B., Mary Jane, and Sarah Anne (twins), Hannah, William, and Rebecca; he died in Cecil township, four miles from Canonsburg in his thirty-fifth year.
(11) Sarah, born December 15, 1795, married Steven Wilkie; issue, Maria, Wilkie, and others. Maria married Rev. Jonathan Wilson, a missionary to Siam. Sarah, Sr., lived and died in Sidney, Ohio.
(12) Abraham, born August 12, 1797, was an elder at Canal Fulton, Stark Co., Ohio.
(13) James and (14) Hannah were twins, born July 1, 1799. Hannah married a Mr. Fulton, and lived at Canal Fulton,Ohio. George Van Eman, Sr., and his wife, Rebecca Scott, lived and raised their family on a farm known as Clokey, six miles east of Washington, Penn. In their old age they removed to Canal Fulton, Stark Co., Ohio, to live with their children; they died and are buried in the old churchyard about one mile from that place.
(3) Abraham Scott died in Adams county, Penn., March 1, 1834, aged seventy-seven years. He first married Margaret McClain, who died February 2, 1789, aged twenty-six years; issue (1) Hugh, (2) John, (3) Margaret, and (4) Jane. Second marriage to Jane Kerr, who died December 6, 1813, aged forty-seven; issue, (5) George K., (6), William M., (7) Abraham, (8) Polly, (9) James; third marriage to Margaret McMillen, who died October 25, 1833, aged fifty; no issue. Of these (1) Hugh married Betsy Kerr, and died August 17, 1849, aged sixty-five, leaving children: (1) Abraham, (2) John, (3) Margaret, (4) George, (5) William, and (6) Mary Ann. Of these Abraham married Mary Downs; issue: James Hervey, Elizabeth Marion, Hugh Alfred, and William Elliott. (2) John married Martha McAllister (and died February 11, 1882, aged seventy-one); issue Hugh D., John W., William, Mary, and Dr. Joseph Byron. (3) Margaret never married. (4) George died in youth. (5) William married Julia Anne Newman; a son, Newman. (6) Mary Anne married John Galbreath; issue: William and Laura. (2) John married Mary Trenkle, and had one son and nine daughters; soon after marriage he emigrated to N. Carolina where he died several years ago; his widow was still living December 13, 1882. (3) Margaret married Moses Gourley; issue: Isabella, Jane, Margaret, and Thomas. (4) Jane married Stuart Speer, and died in Ohio, February 1866, aged seventh-eight; Rev. J.S. Speer, of Canonsburg, Penn., is a grandson. (5) George K., of the second marriage, born in Adams county, emigrated to Washington, Penn., in 1824, where he engaged in teaching school for several years. Afterward embarked in mercantile business, in which he was eminently successful; in 1830 he married Mary Ann Holbert, by whom he had four children; Abram B., Catherine H., John H., and George K.; the mother died in 1840, when the children were very young; he afterward married her sister Catherine (born in Maryland September 18, 1798) who proved to be a mother indeed to her sister's children, and on their part they ever affectionately venerated her as a mother; she died in Washington, January 20, 1888, aged ninety. George K., Sr., died in 1867. Abram B. was twice married, first to Sarah Evans; issue: Mary A., William E., and Sarah. William E. married Susan Goughner; issue: Chester G., Blanche, Mary Louisa. Abram's second marriage was to Rebecca Lacock; he lived in Fairfield, Iowa. Catherine H. first married S.S. Fowler; issue, five children (two died in infancy) Kate, Georgiana and Gertrude; her second marriage was with W.B. Whittaker, of Fairfield, Iowa; Georgiana married James C. Hanyson, and had one daughter. John H. married Jane McCaskey, December 11, 1862, and died March 17, 1891; George K. Jr., married Grizella Beatty, November 24, 1859; issue: Charles B., Samuel Preston, Katie F., George K., Mary, May, and William Taylor. Five of these died in early life. Katie F. married Frank G. Puliver, and lives in Mobeetie, Tex. William Taylor is still single. Rev. George K., Jr., died in Mobeetie, Tex., January 10, 1889. Was a Presbyterian clergyman, licensed in April, 1858, ordained by Washington Presbytery in 1859, a home missionary in Texas.
(6) William M. married Jane Kerr; issue: Dr. A.O., Margaret Rebecca, George W., Mary Jane; three died in infancy. Dr. A.O. married Jane Wilson; issue: David W., Netty R., Mary L., Jane Sherman, Clara M., Fannie and Genevie. Margaret Rebecca married John Cunningham, Esq.; issue: James, Jennie K., Elizabeth S., Mary, William Scott, Maggie R., Fannie F. (William M. died August 15, 1852, aged sixty; his wife died August 18, 1867, aged seventy-two). (8) Polly died unmarried August 28, 1875, aged eighty years.
(3) James married Rebecca Patterson in 1790, who was born September 25, 1768; he sold his farm some seven miles south of Gettysburgh, and built the hotel there known as the "McClelland House", where he died October 1, 1806, aged forty-six. Their children were Hugh, born July 17, 1791, died March 25, 1874; Margaret, born 1793, died February 10, 1868; Dr. James Patterson, born in 1795; John, born 1798; William, born 1800, and Jane, born 1803. His widow afterward married Col. James Agnew, and died January 28, 1827. Capt. James, son of Hugh, first married Lena Spangler, and had one son, James, who was living in or near New Orleans in 1877. Capt. James' second marriage was with Margaret Dickson. Hugh died previous to 1877, in Gettysburgh, Penn., at an advanced age. Dr. James Patterson died suddenly. Margaret died a few years ago unmarried. Jane married a Mr. Ashman, and lived in Ohio. Of William and John there is no information.
(3) Hugh, born 1763, married Jane Latta, and emigrated with nine living children from Washington county, Penn., in 1811, and settled four miles south of Newark, Licking Co., Ohio, where he died in April 1849, aged eighty-seven; his wife, Jane (Latta), died in 1837, aged seventy. Their children were John Agnew, born 1790, died in Illinois, 1876; Isabella, born 1792, died in Illinois, 1867; Sarah, born 1794, died in Illinois, 1867; Jane, born 1796, died in Ohio, 1867; William, born 1798, died in Illinois, 1870; Hugh, born 1800, died in Illinois, 1863; Robert born 1802, died in Newark, Ohio, 1879; James born 1804, living in Marysville, Ohio, in 1892; Abraham, born 1809, died in 1881.
(3) John, born in Adams county in 1772, married in Gettysburgh, Penn., about 1796 to Martha Patterson, who was born in Lancaster county, December 10, 1777. Their children were all born in Washington, Penn.: Margaret, born May 10, 1797, married Robert Officer, May 4, 1819, died December 12, 1880, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, where the family had resided a number of years; Jane, born May 12,1799, died unmarried near Washington, Ill., April 19, 1869; Rebecca, born July 9, 1803, died February 24, 1818, of smallpox, at Washington, Penn.; James Patterson, born November 6, 1805 married Margaret Sample, of Washington, Penn., April 23, 1835 (Patterson died August 21, 1866); his wife died April 11, 1884. They are buried in Washington, Ill. Their children were Elias Cornelius, born June 30, 1836; Martha Jane, born September 6, 1838, married David E. Seedom, December 22, 1887 (she died in Hubbell, Neb., April 6, 1890); John Workman, born September 28, 1840, died June 30, 1867; Sarah Olivia, born October 28, 1842; Elizabeth Gertrude, born September 29, 1844, married September 29, 1870, to Marshall W. Woodbury; issue: Cornelius Wellington, born April 1, 1870, died August 30, 1875; Nathan Patterson, born February 28, 1881, lives in Hubbell, Neb.; Mary Roxanna, born February 25, 1846; Rebecca Violet, born May 7, 1849; Hester Ellen, September 17, 1851, married John M. Marton, February 19, 1885, and had a daughter, Lucia Ethel, born April 5, 1887 (live in Ocoya, Ill.), Margaret Lucia, born February 4, 1854; James Patterson Scott emigrated from Washington, Penn., to near Washington, Ill., in 1837, where as a teacher and farmer he spent his life. Dr. John, born April 20, 1808, married June 18, 1833, to Margaret Sloan, of Pittsburgh, Penn., in which city he spent his after life in his chosen profession, dentistry (died October 19, 1888, on train while en route home from Duluth, Minn., where he had been on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Cash); Hugh, born July 4, 1810; John Randolph, born December 12, 1812, married Asenath Hicks, November 25, 1847; issue: Anna Martha, born January 13, 1849, married George Tobias October 8, 1874, and had a son, born December 29, 1879, died in infancy. Quincy A., born August 10, 1850, married Lucy J. Hatfield, October 26, 1882 (lives in Wayne county, Iowa); Emma Julia, born November 19, 1854. Roenna Elliott, born July 19, 1853, died September 30, 1853; Charles Sumner, born November 7, 1857, murdered (as supposed) in July, 1880; Lincoln R., born June 23, 1860, married Minnie R. Beck, October 24, 1888 (lives in Idalia, Col.); William Goodel, born February 18, 1862, married La Tina Myers, October 7, 1885 (lives in Peoria, Ill.); John Randolph emigrated from Washington, Penn., in spring of 1837, and settled on Government lands which he had entered the previous year, four miles south of Washington, Ill., where he yet resides, a wealthy, intelligent farmer.
(3) John Scott, Sr., was a general trader on the river to New Orleans and returned across the country with houses and mules. He established the stage lines from Washington to Pittsburgh, to Brownsville to Wheeling, and to Steubenville, Ohio. Had three paralytic strokes at different times, and after the third could not walk; had use of his arms, but no control of his limbs; had to be lifted and fed for twenty years. He died from effects of cholera, October 17, 1834, taken the previous August; his wife , Martha Patterson, died of cholera about August 10, 1834. The father, mother and son, Decatur, are buried on the farm on which they lived, one and one-half miles east of Washington, Penn., now owned by William Davis.
(3) Elizabeth married Edward Todd. They emigrated to the vicinity of Steuvenville at an early day. Mr. John Johnson, a grandson, writes under date of April 25, 1887: "My grandmother, Elizabeth Todd, died in West Virginia, opposite Steuvenville, at the residence of her son-ion-law Daniel O. Neal. I have no dates. She had six daughters and one son, William, who died when a young man. The oldest daughter, Jane Carroll, died in Cincinnati two years ago, aged eighty-seven. Three of her children live in Cincinnati: Edward Carroll, Sarah Anne Clemens and Rebecca Mansure. Rebecca (Todd) Jewett died in Illinois; her family of five sons and one daughter live in Kansas. Letitia (Todd) Finley died some years since; her husband, William Finley, and family are living near Brown Station in Jefferson co., Ohio. Sarah Todd died many years since; her husband, James Trumbull, and two daughters Mrs. James Surratt and Mrs. John Olive—are living in Steubenville. Mr. Trumbull is very old and wealthy. Rosanna (Todd) Johnston, my mother, is the only one of the family now living; she was eighty-six years old February 22, 1887. Of mother's family there are five boys and two girls; Rebecca McKinney lives in Steubenville, Elizabeth in St. Louis, Curtis and Edward in Iowa, Daniel in Nebraska, William in Kentucky, and your humble servant in Jefferson county, two miles west of Steubenville, Ohio."
(3) Sarah married John Jordan. Of her and her family nothing is now known, save that she and her husband emigrated to the Sandusky Plains, Ohio, at an early date.
(3) Margaret married James Ramsay, a captain in the war of 1812; emigrated to the vicinity of Steubenville, Ohio, at an early date; had one son and four daughters; twin daughters married brothers by the name of Maxwell Thomas Maxwell, of Wintersville, and James Maxwell, of Steubenville, Ohio, are grandsons.
(3) Josiah married Jane Darragh, born February 19, 1799. Josiah Scott tied of cholera August 16, 1834, aged sixty-four. Jane Darragh, his wife, died December 20, 1841. These parents and their son Hugh, and her parents, John Darragh, Sr., who died March 11, 1814, aged seventy-seven, and Margaret Darragh, who died August 20, 1824, aged eighty-seven, and the daughter Margaret, who died December 5, 1851, aged eighty-one, widow of Dr. Thomas Baird, of Washington, Penn., are buried in the Presbyterian Mingo graveyard. Josiah's children were: (1) Margaret McKinley, born February 9, 1807; (2) James S., born April 27, 1808; (3) John Darragh and (4) Absalom Baird (twins) born August 31, 1809; (5) Hugh, born October 26, 1811; died November 2, 1832; (6) Archibald Darragh, born December 11, 1815; ; (7) Mary Jane, born February 15, 1819. (1) Margaret McKinley, on February --, 1832, married Thomas Weir, born September 2, 1802; issue: Adam, born January 13, 1833, married May 14, 1856, to Catherine Wilson, born December 26, 1831, and died without issue February 26, 1889. Josiah Scott, born April 10, 1836, married November 29, 1859, Sarah Ann Hicks, born in Winchester, Ky., November 30, 1839; no issue; live at Stanford, Ill. Samuel Baird, born January 9, 1838, on December 2, 1863, married Margery Winnett, born June 4, 1843, died June 12, 1875; issue: Hugh Finley, born October 24, 1864; Mary Lizzie, born July 20, 1866; Ada Margaret, born January 13, 1873; Winnett Wallace, born February 3, 1875; Hugh, born June 3, 1840. At the close of his junior year in Jefferson college (1862), enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; was wounded July 2, 1863, at Gettysburgh, died in Rebel Hospital July 5, 1863; Mary Jane, born June 14, 1842; Margaret Lavinia, born April 10, 1847, married October 9.1878, Samuel P. Fergus, born August 17, 1843; issue: Thomas Harold Weir, born August 11, 1879; Hugh Earnest, born January 16, 1881; John Addison, born July 3, 1883, died May 14, 1885; David S. Littell, born March 5, 1885, died December 29, 1885; Margaret Josephine, born June 20, 1887.
(2) James Smith, born April 27, 1808, died January 1, 1869, married February 14, 1832, to Mary Cubbage, born 1809, died May 14, 1877; issue Josiah L., born March 20, 1834, died April 3, 1`847; James Cubbage, born June 25, 1836, died September 19. 1841; John Alexander, born March 8, 1839, died September 10, 1841; Almira Jane, born February 18, 1841; William Wallace, born January 30, 1843; James Herron, born August 10, 1846; George Winfield, born April 20, 1850; Louisa Marie, born February 10, 1845, died September 7, 1845. Almira Jane married John B. McBride May 1, 1873, died November 17, 1884; issue: James Scott, born November 23, 1874; John Bavington, born September 8, 1876; Charles Cubbage, born September 17, 1878; Samuel Bruce, born June 2, 1880; Mary Alice, born September 28, 1883, and George Wallace, born November 17, 1884. William Wallace married Mary J. Roddy May 14, 1868, at Sidney, Ohio; issue: Mary Winifred, born November 27, 1870; Gertrude R. born November 5, 1872; Jean Alice, born December 3, 1874; William Wallace, born June 4, 1880 (live in Sewickley, Penn.). James Herron married Mildred Agnes Bell in 1876; she died in Washington, Penn., in 1877. His second marriage was in 1879 with Frances Ramsey Kuhn, who died in McKeesport, Penn., in 1887; living issue: John, Mary Ella, and Gertrude; he lives in Pittsburgh, Penn. George Winfield married Adeline Speer, October 26, 1882 (lives in Des Moines, Iowa).
(3) John Darragh was married May 28, 1839, to Sarah Vance, born October 16, 1811. John D. died March 6, 1880. He was a farmer. Issue: Sarah Jane, born February 1, 1840, died October 2, 1840; Mary Elizabeth, born February 3, 1843; Henry Vance, born September 5, 1841, died April 5, 1842; Margaret Jane, born May 16, 1845; Isabella, born May 3, 1848; John Vance and Josiah Lawrence (twins), born November 28, 1850. Of these Mary Elizabeth was married on August 15, 1860, to Hiram Winnett, born in 1836, died August 18, 1872; issue: John Hudson, born June 15, 1862; Finley Scott, born August 23, 1864; Elizabeth B., born November 15, 1866; Catherine A., born January 23, 1869; Sadie E., born April 1, 1872; John Hudson was twice married, first time to Rebecca Devore, born July 5, 1862, and second time, April 27, 1892, to Mary Winnett, born April 11, 1871. Scott married Bell Waller in 1891, and lives at Columbia Falls, Mont. Elizabeth B. married James McDonough in February, 1891, and has one son, George Otto. Catherine A. married Frank Wright April 15, 1891, and has one son, Winnett Wilson, born February 26, 1892. Margaret was married October 15, 1863, to Levi G. Rainey, born July 7, 1842; issue: Eunice Bell, born May 30, 1865, died September 7, 1868; Frank Wilbert, born April 17, 1871; Walter Scott, born August 20, 1874; Sadie Bell, born December 30, 1879, died September 11, 1880. Isabella married Dr. Finley B. Winnett, issue: a son, Elmer, who died May 3, 1892, aged twenty-four, and a son, Ray. John Vance married Margaret Miller November 30, 1876; issue: Maud, born August 2, 1878; Sarah Bell, born September 3, 1880; Wylie Vance, born December 1, 1883; Isaac S., born July 29, 1886; Waid W., born August 27, 1889. Josiah Lawrence married Tillie Ross December 21, 1876; issue: Pearl, born November 12, 1877; Eddie, born December 11, 1879; and Ely, born May 13, 1882, and John V., Tillie and Otto.
(4) Absalom Baird was married September 18, 1834, to Rebecca Finley, born August 11, 1811; Absalom died May 1, 1861; Rebecca Finley died February 15, 1892; issue: Mary Jane, born February 14, 1836; John Finley, born April 2, 1838; Josiah Scott, born July 27, 1840, died April 2, 1843; James Kerr, born December 18, 1842; Margaret Baird, born May 24, 1845; Hugh Clemens, born August 18, 1847; Frances E., born May 15, 1850; Sarah, born August 30, 1852, died January 29, 1892. Mary Jane married February 22, 1859, John D. Henry, born October 12, 1834; issue: Allie Margaret, born December 22, 1859; Edwin Absalom, born April 29, 1862; Frances Rebecca, born March 27, 1865; Etta Mary, born December 20, 1868; Reid Scott, born May 9, 1873. They live in Idlewood, Allegheny co, Penn. John Finley married Maggie Davis, born January 16, 1842; issue: Mary Frances, born October 24, 1864, married Leaman Brownlee; Rebecca, born January 5, 1867, died November 13, 1875; George Davis, born November 29, 1869; Anna Maud, born August 9, 1872; Hugh Baird, born October 20, 1874, died August 5, 1875. James Kerr was twice married, first time November 16, 1865, to Sarah Ellen Roberts, born May 12, 1844, died November 2, 1875; issue: Laura and Albert; his second marriage was with Jennie Logan in 1891. Margaret Baird married Charles Jones November 25, 1883; issue: one son, Chauncey.
(6) Archibald Darragh was married October 30, 1839, to Tamar Crawford, born October 11, 1818; Archibald D. died March 2, 1891; Tamar, his wife, died August 8, 1863; issue: (1) James Crawford, born August 30, 1841, married May 4, 1872, to Mary Underwood, born August 15, 1850; no issue; live in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. (2) Nancy Jane, born July 11, 1843, died June 22, 1847. (3) Mary Elizabeth, born July 30, 1845, was married October 19, 1871, to Steven Beatty, who died February 5, 1883. (4) Margaret Jane, born December 28, 1847. (5) Josiah L., born January 4, 1850, was married December 25, 1882, to Mrs. M.L. Wise Shields, born January 22, 1862; live in East End, Pittsburgh, Penn. (6) Andrew Winfield, born May 16, 1852, married May 30, 1877, Dora P. Shields, born September 1, 1861; issue: Tamar Etta, born January 2, 1878; Archibald James, born November 30, 1880; and Josiah Vance, born February 10, 1882; lives in East End, Pittsburgh, Penn.
(7) Mary Jane married, in 1837, William Sample, born July 14, 1815; emigrated to Tazewell county, Ill., in 1838; William died June 5, 1871; Mary Jane, wife, died November 15, 1874; they with three of their children (save the first) are buried in El Paso, Woodford Co, Ill.; issue: Josiah Scott, born June 20, 1839; died November 7, 1839; Hugh Workman, born July 27, 1843, died June 8, 1872; Theodore, born November 5, 1846; Sarah Jane, born September 9, 1849, died April 18, 1875; John William. born March 11, 1958, died February 14, 1881; Ida Violet, born February 16, 1861. Of these, Theodore married December 24, 1874, Jennie Toole, born in Ireland January 25, 1853; issue: Theodore Tilden, born July 20, 1876; Ida Mary, born June 12, 1878; William Montana, born July 22, 1885, and Harry, born October 11, 1888 Ida Violet was married December 9, 1879, to John Wesley Kennedy, born August 16, 1851; issue Walter Scott, born August 15, 1882; Harry Sample, born January 19, 1885, and Ida Violet, born June 9, 1889, died August 23, 1889. Theodore and Ida Violet with their families reside in Logansport, Ind.
The following additional matter was written by Col. John Scott, of Nevada, Iowa: In the old cemetery near Washington, Penn., repose the ashes of one of the pioneers, over which is this inscription: "In memory of Josiah Scott, who died on the 20th day of February , 1819, aged 84 years. Having sustained a character exemplary for honesty, piety and usefulness, he came to the grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in his season. Job 5th chap. And 26th verse."
Josiah Scott, the youngest son of (2) Abraham Scott, was born in Chester county, Penn., in 1735. His father was born in the same county in 1677, and was a son of Hugh Scott, a native of the North of Ireland, who came to Pennsylvania about 1670. At least two of the sons of Abraham Scott, Hugh and Josiah, were pioneers in the county of Washington. They lived to an advanced age, both dying in 1819, and each of them leaving a numerous posterity, now widely separated. Josiah Scott married Violet Foster in 1760.
He was a blacksmith a maker of edge tools, especially of sickles and was a skillful and rapid reaper, being stout, muscular, and robust. He was of vigorous constitution, plain and simple in manners, habits, and tastes, and noted for his strong common sense and sound judgment. He was for many years an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was highly respected for his ability and many virtues. His early home was at Peach Bottom, where the Susquehanna river crosses the State line. From thence he removed to the wilds of Washington county, and became a resident of Catfish, now Washington. This change of location occurred in 1773-74. He worked at his trade and at farming till his death, at the age of eighty-four.
To Josiah Scott and Violet (Foster) were born eight children, six of whom reared families, whose descendants are in many States. The two elder sons, Alexander and Abram, married, respectively, Rachel and Rebecca, daughters of Hon. John McDowell, and Agnes (Bradford), his wife. The late Hon. Josiah Scott, of Bucyrus, Ohio, a distinguished scholar and jurist, for many years a judge of the Supreme court of Ohio, was a son of Alexander Scott. The late Hon. Josiah Scott, of Cadiz, Ohio, a member of the convention which passed the Constitution of that State, and his brother, the late Hon. William Scott, of Guernsey county, Ohio, were sons of Abram Scott. The later was minister in the Presbyterian Church; so, also, was his brother James, who for more than forty years was a pastor of a church at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Josiah, the sixth child of the first Josiah, became a farmer, settled in Columbiana county, Ohio, and reared a large family. The elder daughter of Josiah, Sr., Mary, married William Cotton, and settled in Beaver county, Penn. The younger daughter, Elizabeth, married Robert Stevenson, and also settled in Beaver county. Their descendants are numerous, and widely scattered. By a second marriage Josiah Scott had four sons. Robert settled in Carroll county, Ohio, and has many descendants. Hugh and Gen. Sam. Scott remained in Washington county, where they are still represented. John died on the old homestead, near Washington, in his early prime, leaving a family of three daughters, Mrs. Workman Hughes being one of them.
Among the representatives of this old blood of Washington county may be named Hon. A.W. Scott, of Toledo, Ohio; Rev. W.W. Colmery, D.D., of Oxford, Ohio; Rev. R.C. Colmery, of Sandusky, Ohio; Rev. D.R. Colmery, D.D., of Los Angeles, Cal.; Rev. Alexander Scott, of Denver, Col.; Col. John Scott, of Nevada, Iowa; Prof. E.M.Cotton, of Chester, Iowa; Dr. J.E. Scott, of Chicago, and Hon. Lawson Scott, of Mendota, Ill.; all of whom are great-grandsons of "Old Josiah."
Text taken from page 422 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).Transcribed February 1998 by Virginia Edwards of Sequim, WA as part of the Beers Project.
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