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Facts and Events
Will of Felix Scott
- I, Felix Scott, born in Monongalia County, Virginia, and removed to. St. Charles County, Missouri, and from thence to Lane County, Oregon Territory, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. Having made advances of property to my sons, George Scott, Presley Scott, Felix Scott, and Marion Scott: also to my daughters, Lindian Comegys, Lucinda Comegys, Hermacintha Keithly, Ann or Nancy Argent, Ellen Lyle, and Juliet Spencer; I do hereby dispose of my property; real, personal, and mixed, in the following way. To wit:
- I will and bequeath to my wife, Ellen Scott, all my household and kitchen furniture, beds and bedding, my buggy and buggy horse and harness, and as many cows as she may want for her own use during her lifetime; also her choice of either my house on my claim or in the vicinity of Eugene City, a residence during her life.
- I will and bequeath to my son, Nimrod Scott, three hundred and twenty acres of land being that which the government donated to me; also a Strip Of land I purchased of Wilmer Comegys.
- I will and bequeath to my son, Rodney Scott, three hundred and twenty acres I purchased of Felix Scott Jr.
- I will and bequeath to Nimrod Scott and Rodney Scott all my other property to be divided equally subject to the following legacies. To wit:
- One thousand dollars as a permanent fund during the life of my son, Harrison, the interest to be paid yearly for his support.
- To my daughter, Jane Linn Scott, ten acres of ground being the same I purchased of Christian.
- I appoint my sons, Felix, Marion, and Nimrod, my executors.
- I will that there be no other administration of this will, only the recording, as I owe no debts. I think it unwise to have a sale of the personal property: my sons, if they cannot divide themselves, can get their neighbors.
- In testimony I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of January 1858.
- (signature) Felix Scott
- J. L. Brumm
- S. A. Caldwell
- Horace Woodcock
- A. S. Patterson
About Felix Scott
From "Felix Scott", by Nancy Hughes (excerpts):
Felix Scott was one of the youngest of the eight children of Capt. David and Judith Cunningham) Scott. He was born December 13, 1786, according to the family Bible record in Monongalia county, Virginia, (now West Virginia) near the present town of Morgantown, West Virginia. He married Ann (Nancy) Dent about 1808 in Monongalia county. Ann was the daughter of Col. John and Margaret (Evans) Dent and was born May 3, 1789, in Monongalia county.
The family lived in Monongalia county for eight years, and their six eldest children were born there. During these years Felix became a lawyer, was a member of the Virginia State legislature in 1811 and 1812, and sometime before 1814 laid out the townsite of Granville. His election to the Virginia State legislature at the age of 25 was the beginning of his long career in frontier politics.
Felix Scott married (second) Ellen Castlio April 5, 1821, In St. Charles county. Ellen was born September 13, 1805, in Tennessee.They were the parents of fifteen children.
In 1858 when he was 72 years old, Felix Scott took a boat to the Isthmus of Panama, crossed the isthmus, took another boat east to the mouth of the Mississippi river and then went up the Mississippi to Kentucky. Here he purchased fine cattle and horses. He hired two men to help him drive them to Oregon across the plains. He and his two helpers were murdered and the stock stolen by Indians near Goose lake, Lake county, Oregon, when they were almost home. The circumstances of his death are described in an article from the "Oregon Statesman" dated January 25, 1859.
Felix Scott's will is dated January 19, 1858. (#84 p. 157 Book of Wills, Lane county, Oregon) It was not probated until 17 years later on July 10, 1875. Rodney Scott, saying that he believed his father was dead, petitioned the Lane county court to probate it at that time.
Citations
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~comegys/genealogy/allied/scott/50.htm
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