Ken Lindsay & Associates
|
Subscribe to Descendants of Anthony LINDSAY of London to Maryland Colony | |
| Browse Archives at groups.google.com | ||
|
Ken Lindsay & Associates
| |||||
|
|
Biography of Margaret Scott (1824-1872)By Ken LindsayMargaret Scott, daughter of Samuel K. and Eleanor (Connor) Scott, was born __ ___ 1824 in Illinois and died 13 September 1872 in Winslow, Pike Co., Indiana, and was buried near the front entrance of Oak Hill Cemetery in Winslow. She, her husband and two children were buried near some large Oak trees. These trees were uprooted by storms in the late 1930s and destroyed her tombstone. I gathered the pieces and leaned them against a concrete speaker's stand that was built near the Bryant Family Plot. Her stone was still there in 2001. Margaret Scott came to Warrick County, from Waterloo, Fayette Co., Indiana, with her parents, siblings and other Connor families in 1835. The family first settled in the northern part of Warrick, very near the Pike County line. Margaret's half-sister, Ellen Scoot, married Jesse Bryant at Warrick Co., Indiana, 8 February 1836. Soon afterward, on 21 July 1842, Margaret Scott married James Bryant, brother to her brother-in-law, Jesse Bryant, at Pike Co., Indiana, and went to live with James in the old Needham Bryant homeplace on squatted land just across the county line in Pike County. They lived on this land for years before taking off for the new state of Iowa in 1852. In 1854. the Bryant family returned to Pike County and James Bryant bought the land on which his father had squatted when his family arrived from Bertie Co., North Carolina. James Bryant purchased the land at the United States Land Office at Vincennes, Knox Co., Indiana, on 4 October 1854. This farm was located in Township 3, Range 8 West, Section 22. This farm was almost in the extreme southwestern corner of the present Lockhart Township. When Pike County was originally established this land would have been in Warrick County, but was taken off Warrick a few years afterward. Lockhart Township had been formed two years before James Bryant bought the farm, That township had previously been part of Monroe Township. Section 22 borders Warrick County to the south and is the second section east of present Marion Township; however, Marion Township was not formed until three years, later. At the time James Bryant made his purchase, Marion Township was the southern half of Patoka Township. The Bryant farm adjoined that of his brother-in-law, Samuel Scott, Jr., on the north, with a lot of Margaret's relatives living in the near vicinity. Thomas Scales also lived close by and would soon be elected sheriff of Pike County. While Scales was sheriff, my Grandma, Mary Ann Bryant, worked as his housekeeper at the sheriff's residence in Petersburg. This is where she first met my Grandpa James William "Will" Green who delivered groceries to the jail. They had 7 children:
SOURCE
|
|
Send mail to Ken Lindsay
with questions or comments about this web site.
|