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[edit] Myrtle Scott DavisLetter from Myrtle Scott Davis, daughter of James O. Scott, to E. S. Mayer, from McCall, ID, 19 March 1973 Uncle Dave spent several months at Milton, Ore with Aunt Marilla and Uncle Dave in hopes of regaining his health. I can remember the day Dad brought him home from the train all wrapped up in a comforter and how cold it was. He only lived a few days. Brother Dave has spent his last two winters at Jacksonville, Ore. and the last several summers at Sisters. [edit] Mary Ida (Scott) GodfreyMary Ida Scott was the daughter of James Thomas Scott and granddaughter of William Hazelton Scott. Myrtle Scott Davis was a granddaughter of James Thomas Scott and a niece of Mary Ida. Mary Ida (Scott) Godfrey to Myrtle Scott Davis, Sept. 13, 1960 Uncle Joe Scott married Romanna Montgomery. (We called her Aunt Mannie.) (Aunt Lizzie Duree was her only sister, so far as I know.) They had 3 children, Adaline (Addie), Robert (Bob) and in later years Gail, a boy. My Grandmother Scott (YOUR GREAT) was Mary Ann Short. Grandfather was William Hazelton Scott. I dont know Too much about the Family tree. I heard Uncle Will tell one time about his Aunt Helen [ Helen H. Scott?]. He had gone over to his grandparents to stay over night, had walked and was very hungry. He would never eat mutton, he said. But as he was eating on his supper, Aunt Helen reached over and whispered in his ear, "Will, you are eating mutton". He said "I know it", but he did'nt. People can get fooled. Both grandparents, Wm. H. and Mary Short [Scott], came to Missouri when children were single, all but Uncle Joe and Aunt Mary Ellen Wilson. [And James Thomas.] Aunt Mary had a baby boy when she came, Will Wilson. The Grandparents had 3 boys at home, Gill, Garrett, and George. Mother said all Gill did was monkey with snakes. "He never worked after he married". Before that, he travelled and gave lectures and demonstrations on Phrenology. Garrett said he was good at it. Aunt Mary and Janie thought Gill was the only one. [edit] Effie Scott MayerEffie Scott Mayer, daughter of David Garrett Scott, granddaughter of William Hazelton Scott, maintained a steady correspondence with an extended network of cousins for over thirty years. After her death, some of her correspondence was inherited by her son, Reece Mayer. Letter to Lee Scott and Parents, 9 June 1935, [exerpts] Kay and wife and Bobby Kay were here last Sunday. We ate down to Mom’s, got up from the table and drove over to Bert’s, Mom and Elizabeth and me. . . . . We left Bert's about 4 o’clock and drove over to Caldwell to see Kay’s Helen. She’d been going to College of Idaho there her second year. School had closed Friday and Sat. evening Helen had given a party at the Ring Club house where she lived to announce her marriage to Frank Kreisenbeck of Cascade on 14 March in Chicago. She and Frank had gone back with a group to Detroit to drive out a caravan of cars. She and Frank stopped in Chicago long enough to see the sights and get married. Frank drove back a truck and Helen drove right behind him in Kay’s new Oldsmobile. Uncle Frank Rash and Aunt Mat sold their 40 acre place at Kuna to the government and Erma came up and helped them with the sale and their packing and took them back with her to Long Beach. Aunty had a light stroke in the winter and on the train Uncle Frank had one and they took him off at Pocatello to a hospital. When he got better they went on. Erma wrote Burt’s a card that they were getting to feel pretty well again. They have an apartment close to Erma and she can run in frequently. Tillie Rash Garland Palmer married again this spring a Chas. Gill of Boise, a carpenter (contractor). Letter to Alice Fay Scott about 1960 Children of David Garrett Scott and Ann Jane Reece, undated note Note, n.d. J. O. Scott, brother of Linnie Bennett, died 27 Oct., 1933, and is buried in the Lebabon, OR cemetery. Church Affiliations of some of the Scott families [edit] Reece MayerReece Mayer, great-grandson of William Hazelton Scott, wrote extensively about the Scott family, based primarily on information from his mother, Effie Scott Mayer. Effie Scott, daughter of David Garrett Scott, was an inveterate letter writer, corresponding extensively with various cousins and other relations, sharing family history stories and lore. Reece Mayer also received Scott family information from his cousin, Alice Fay Scott, daughter of Alvanza Scott, another grandchild of William Hazelton Scott; and from Lee and Betty Scott, descendants of William H. Scott's oldest son, James Thomas Scott. Reece Mayer 3 January 1978 William Hazelton Scott moved his family to Missouri after all the children were born and after two of them were married. (Joe and Mary Ellen Scott Wilson). Reece Mayer, July 19, 1984
Reece Mayer 10 August 1991 Notes from Lee Scott, 10 August 1991: notes from undated xerox of news clipping [ca. 1946]
[edit] Dorothy Kidwell MayfieldDorothy Kidwell Mayfield was a granddaughter of James Thomas Scott. Dorothy Kidwell Mayfield to Effie Scott Mayer, Sequim, WA, 10 Feb 1966 [edited to remove information about living people] Dorothy Mayfield to [ Alverda Godfrey ], n.d. (edited) [edit] Alice Faye ScottAlice Fay Scott was the daughter of Alvanza Scott, granddaughter of David Garrett Scott, and great-granddaughter of William Hazelton Scott Letter, Alice Fay Scott, Aug. 1984 Alice Fay Scott to Reece Mayer, Oct. 1984 n.d. [edit] Beulah ScottBeulah Scott was the daughter of George H. Scott, youngest son of William Hazelton Scott. Alverda Godfrey was the grandaughter of James Thomas Scott, oldest son of William Hazelton Scott. Beulah Scott Underwood to Alverda Godfrey Miller, March 12 1957 Gillette, Wyo Bless your heart for taking all that time out to write me all the details about our Scott Relation. Oh Eldora and I never got to go see the old Scott Mill when we went East but think my sister, Opal and brother, Harry and mom and Dad when all four of them went back sometime after I came to Wyoming in 1920. But when Metta’s and Eldora’s (Dora) brother, Sewell Scott was attending Yale University in New Haven, Conn, why Sewell sent me a snap Kodak picture of the old Scott Mill that he had taken when he went to see Cousin Margaret Scott and Sewell went down there then. My great grandfather Scott was buried in Maryland and think Cousin Margaret is buried there too – do not know. Cousin Margaret had two brothers Sewell and Charles and four sisters that I know of. The one died of a broken heart C.Margaret said because she did have a date with another boy just once and her lover broke off their engagement or friendship etc – but C. Margaret said he felt so badly later after she died that he asked to marry one of the sisters I believe – but never. And I hear from them – just had a letter from Caroline not so long ago. And she wanted Effie’s address Christmas time. She and Charles came to see my sister, Effie Long and me here in Gillette about fourteen years ago. My husband, Roy U. was alive then and we had a good visit and also when C. Margaret came out here three years or so before they came. C. Margaret died before Charles and Caroline came out. Charles and Caroline went on to California to see Charles’ sister Virginia (they called her ‘Gen’) and she married a Dr. Walters and live in Oakland, Calif and C. Margaret went to see them too. I have never seen Gen but saw Charles’ other sister Agnes Cooling and she and Mr. Cooling had Eldora and me to dinner in 1918 when we went back there. Their son Samuel was there, he is married but their son, Severson was not there that evening at dinner. I saw Charles’ brother Sewall Davis Scott when back there in 1918 and he and his sweet wife had Dora and I to the finest chicken dumpling dinner ever. They are both dead now – but I still have some of their letters they wrote me. Sewall Davis S, the policeman, looked like General Pershing of the First World War I thought and Caroline said so many remarked that he did look like Pershing at his Sewall Davis’) funeral. Now were Charles and Cousin Margaret’s father and my Dad’s Father half brothers or what? And was their grandfather’s name Thomas Scott – that’s where Sewall Davis the policeman got his name and Metta’s brother Sewall got his I suppose. Charles and Sewall’s mother was a Davis before she married a Scott, and cousin Margaret had a gene book of all the generations way back on the Davis side of the family. I got to meet Charles and C. Margaret’s Mother in 1918. She and C. Margaret lived together in Wilmington Delaware. So you say my grandfathers’ name was William Hazelton Scott and you think his father’s name was Thomas. And this Thomas had three boys you say and he was my grandfather |Wm Hazelton and his two brothers Sewall and Thomas Jr? Then this brother Sewall was the father of Sewall Davis and Charles and C. Margaret, Agnes and Virginia, and that my Dad a first cousin to Sewall Davis and all. When Dad got to see the old stone house in Chester County Penn, where he was born – it was still there and people were living in it. Well if I remember correctly I heard cousin Margaret say that some Scott married and had five children and his wife died – then he married another women that had five children whose husband had died – then they had five children (she and this Scott) which made 15 children and C. Margaret said the father or mother would say “Oh Come here quick your kids and my kids are fighting with our kids” ha! I remember them talking about that name Covington. I was thinking it was Grandfather Scott’s middle name – but since you mentioned Hazelton – I remember that too. They called me Beulah Hazel and I named my second girl Hazel after my husband’s sister, Hazel, and my mother said she was named after me too ha! My Dad said he was ‘Scotch-Irish; and English and Welsh. My mother was just English and French, her father, (George Washington Fields) was a full blooded Englishman and her mother was French and English. I believe Mother’s Mother’s Father (her grandfather on her mother’s side) was a full blooded Frenchman and mom’s mother went to school to him (her own father who was a teacher) all the time she attended school mind you. His name was Harmon I believe. But what relation was Uncle John Duree. My mother has her genealogy written down on the Fields side her father’s side of the family. A young lawyer back in Indiana who was a Fields where Mom’s mother was born – was tracing his ancestors so he finally got in contact with my mother and we all have a copy of it and the lawyer traced mother’s ancestors back to the French Hugenots mind you. I do not know whether the grandfather Scott or Great grandfather run or owned the flour mill. But I remember my dad talking about making real fine flour, and during the Civil War – he was too young to go and I believe since they made flour – his older brothers didn’t have to go but were allowed to make flour etc. Dad was only 15 when he came west to Missouri with his folks, his mother, bought up all the nicest and finest yards of cloth and brought west with her thinking they would never see any as nice out west in Mo – ha! And Metta said, people came to Grandma Scotts house just to see the lovely cloth goods ha. I’ll write Charles and Caroline and if they can tell me the exact facts of a lot of this relation. Charles would know more than anyone perhaps. Love Beulah Scott Underwood
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Here are the names and addresses you asked for of my sisters and brother and their children
[edit] Octa Scott WhiteleyOcta was the daughter of George Henry Scott, youngest son of William Hazelton Scott I do not know as much about the Scott Ancestors . . . . I cannot go back much farther than my Grandfather Scotts family for they both died before I was born. They lived in Chester County Pa This I know from Cousin Margaret Scott, that lived in Wilmington Delaware: She came to visit us when you were a little boy. She never married. Her brother Charles Scott & wife came to visit us soon after [1946] and he took you to see the circus. My Great Grandfather Scott lived in Pa. had 2 wifes. His first wife died and left him with 5 children. He then married a woman that was a widow with 5 children and then they had 5 children of this union. The first set was where my Grandfather belonged. The Widow’s set of 5 would not be blood related, to the first set only step. Cousin Margaret & Chas. Were from the last 3rd set; and of course would be half brothers and sisters to both sets. (1st and 2nd) (All Scotts name were 1st and 3rd sets the 2nd set would not have (Scot) name. He had 15 children 10 of his own and 5 stepchildren. (Quite a mixed up Bunch.) My Grandfather (Thomas Scott)[1] was one of the 1st five (sets). My Grandmother Scott’s maiden name was Short. (They Came to St. John Mo about 1840 from Chester County Pa. Many of our relatives lived around Philadelphia, PA, Baltimore and Elkton Md. And Wilmington Del. Grandfather Scott was a miller by trade. They had seven children. James, Joseph, Garrett, William, Gilbert, George Henry, and one girl Mary. . . . My father was Geo. Henry Scott Born Feb.14, 1854 Passed away in 1935 81 + yrs old. and Married my Mother, Lucy E. Fields in 1889. His first wife was Mary Herold (Mollie) he called her - [edit] Notes
[edit] PhotographA Photograph of the Scott Family mill, reportedly taken by Sewell Scott, youngest son of James T. Scott, about 1918. The text on the back was added by his cousin Beulah Scott Underwood. The Old Scott Flour Mill, Turkeytown, Cecil County, Md. Our Grandfather Wm Covington Scott operated this mill during the Civil War in 1861-1865 and it was still in operation when Sewall Scott took this picture in about 1918 when he graduated from Yale University, New Haven, Conn. and rec'd $500.00 Scholarship twice our Dad, Geo. H. Scott said his Bro. Gilbert made the finest flour [edit] Effie Scott LongEffie Myrtle (Scot) Long was a first cousin of Effie Lillian Melvern (Scott) Mayer. Letter, 22 Dec 1969, Effie Long to Effie Mayer, enclosed in a Christmas Card, return address No. 54 - 4th Street, San Franciso Ca [edited] . . . . I had 2 daughters, Marjorie & Lucille. Lucille passed away in 1960 left 3 children 1 boy & 2 girls -- Jerry the boy will graduate from Uni this Spring. the 2 girls are in Chattaroy Wash. with step-parents. Paul their father passed away 1965 I believe it was -- (his heart). Marjorie the other daughter lives here in San Francisco. She has 2 boys. I was up there for several years. Larry graduated from Uni and is back home now and I am here at this retirement Hotel. Her son Kevin is college freshman. . . . . My sister Beulah is in Gillette Wyo. My sister Octa is in Kansas City Mo. Sister Opal lives in Tacoma Wn and Harry our youngest brother lives in Hawaii Is married -- has no children lives at Wahaiwa Hawaii. That is town out about 20 miles from Honolulu. This is week of Christmas and I am afraid to go out in the big stores now such crowds but I am able to walk crippled some and do go out and shop in the big stores a little at times. I couldn't drive my car so sold my home and everything and came here. Have an apt. here at the Victoria Hotel. 2 rooms also Kitchenette & bathroom. It is right downtown here in San Francisco. Half-sister Georgia lost her husband George Saulser -- He was buried Dec. 6.
Georgia lives in St. Louis Missouri. Had 2 boys and 1 girl. Time goes by brings many changes my brother Harry over in Hawaii long time ago met a |