The SCOTT connections of R.T.H. GILMER

GILMER, SCOTT, CRAYTON, KEITH, LONGGEST, TEMPLETON, JAYNE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/18/2011 at 20:48:57

"Jefferson County Records"
by Orville & Mary Prill, 1960-1961
Volume 3, Pages 268-269

Mr. R.T.H. GILMER has given some information concerning his SCOTT ancestry as follows:

ANDREW SCOTT emigrated from Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania about 1725. A son, John SCOTT, was born about 1734 in Pennsylvania. John SCOTT was a soldier in the American Revolution, and married, 1st, about 1756, Anna CRAYTON. They had one child, Elizabeth. Anna (CRAYTON) SCOTT died, and John SCOTT married, second, Nancy KEITH. They had twelve living children. The family moved to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1824, and settled at Island Grove.

REV. ANDREW SCOTT (Minister of the Christian Church), son of John and Nancy (KEITH) SCOTT, was born Nov. 21, 1786, in North Carolina; married May 28, 1808, in Jackson County, Tenn., Anna LONGGEST, who was born in 1791 (Oct. 18, 1789?) in South Carolina, near the sea coast.... Of their children:

James Longgest SCOTT, born Jan. 12, 1813, Giles County, Tenn.; (Pageon Roost, watter of Elk"); came to Sangamon County (Ill.) in 1824, and was married in Iowa to Mary A. GILMER. Had eight children; lived near Des Moines.

Anna, born Jan. 21, 1817, in Orange County, Ind., ("3 forks of little Blue"), married Tilford GILMER; lived near Glasgow, Jefferson County, Iowa.

Caleb Longgest SCOTT, fourth son of Rev. Andrew and Anna SCOTT, born at Richland, Sangamon County, Ill., Dec. 14 (or 22), 1821. ....entered Jacksonville college at Jacksonville, Illinois, but before graduation took the "gold fever" and with the party of 1850, crossed the plains and commenced explorations in the gold fields of California.... On Feb. 21, 1860, married Charlotte King TEMPLETON at the home of her mother at Wooster, Jefferson County, Iowa. Six children. He died Feb. 29, 1892, at Larned, Kansas; buried at Little River.

Wilson Alexander SCOTT, born Nov. 20, 1818, in Crawford County, Ind. ("3 forks of little blue"); came to Sangamon County, Ill., in 1824, was married in Iowa to Louisa JAYNE. Went to Fort Des Moines and traded with the Indians there until they removed west. He accompanied them but returned to Des Moines, laid out the town on the east of the river, and it was largely through his influence and contributions that the capital was built on that side. He went to California, returned to Des Moines and contributed two or three years to the buildup of the city; started to Pike's Peak and died at Fort Laramie in 1859. His remains were buried at Des Moines.

(The preceeding SCOTT records were taken, in part, from "History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois," by John Carroll Power... 1876.)

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Jefferson County, Iowa, Deed Book "A", page 230. Bond recorded Aug. 4, 1842, John A. Pitzer & James L. & Alex SCOTT, from Board of Commissioners, Lot 7, Block 12. (Block 12, Old Plat, is the block just east of Central Park. Lot 7 is in the SW corner of the block.)

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.