Samuel Scott

GEDCOM Note

Source;

The History of Cass and Bates Counties Missouri, Pub. by; National Historical
Company, St. Joseph, Missouri
Deepwater Township pg.813-14

Samuel Scott- Another Pioneer
Samuel Scott was born in Tennessee in 1802, lived near the Kentucky line
and married Abigail Smith, of Kentucky. He emigrated to what is now Deepwater Township Bates Co. Missouri, and settled on the south side of the creek, taking land in section 17 and 20. He was the first
settle in that neighborhood, The year is not positively known, but not later than 1834.
Those who remember the dates given in these sketches will know that very few permanent
setters were before him in this county.

Considering the prairie land not good for cultivation, he cleared up a piece of timber
land the first year, Mrs Scott and her oldest daughter piling the brush.Tradtion has it that while
at that work he killed a bear with a butcher knife, but his youngest daughter says she never
heard of it......They imroved their farm land and lived after theusual manner of the pioneers.

Mr. Scott was appointed as sheriff of the new county of Vernon,established February 17,
1852.....As the constitutionality of the act establishing said county was disputed, suit
was brought against him for pretending to perform the duties of sheriff in a county that did not exist.
It was decided that no such county legally existed, and he was fined one cent.

In 1854 he moved to Linn Co. Kansas was elected by the pro-slavery par ty to the territorial
legislature, and was killed by a band of guerrillas in 1859.(Note;Samuel Scott was on the 1860 Linn
Co. Kansas Census so would have been killed after 1860)

There were ten children that grew up ....James C. died in 1857, Samuel d ied in 1857, Julian E.
lives in Linn Co. Kansas, Lydia (Mrs. James Harney) died 1879, Jasper d ied a prisoner in St. Louis
in 1862. Thomas M. lives in West Point Township, Bates, Co., Jane is Mrs. Carroll Hough of
Vernon Co., Martin V. died in Arkansas of yellow fever in 1864. Martha A. is Mrs. H.P.Wells of Kansas
and Abigail V. is Mrs. Theodore Green of West Point.

1850 Bates Co. Missouri Census, Pg. 250

Samuel Scott 47
Abigail Scott 45
Samuel Scott 22
Joseph Julian F Scott 20
Jasper Scott 19
Thomas Scott 16
Margaret Scott 14
Martin Scott 11
Martha Scott 9
Abigail Scott 7
James Scott 24

1860 Linn Kansas Census, Scott Township, pg 12
Note; Samuel wife Abigail Smith Scott is not on the 1860 Census. Must have died bef; 1860

Samuel Scott 56
Julian Scott 27
Thomas Scott 25
Jane Scott 24
Martin Scott 23
Victoria Scott 16