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Facts and Events
Information on Martha McCorkle
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- Martha McCorkle was only 15 years old when she married Samuel Scott in the Wolf Hill meeting house five miles below Abingdon, in Virginia, by Rev. Charles Cummings. She was married in the same dress her mother was married in. They moved to Woodford County, Kentucky in 1784, taking with them Samuel Scott’s mother, who was then a widow.
- Martha at one time narrowly escaped being killed by the Indians. She went to the home of one of her friends to assist in the preparations for a wedding. Immediately after she left the house it was surrounded by Indians and burned to the ground. One of the members of the family, an old lady, was tied to a horse and carried away. The young lady who was preparing for her wedding was taken away by the Indians and tied to a tree for the night. In some way she made her escape. She said she saw one of the Indians put on her wedding bonnet and dance around the burning building.
- On 4 Apr 1851, Martha McCorkle Scott appeared before the Montgomery County Court of Indiana and applied for a pension in recognition of the services of her husband, Samuel Scott, who was a private under Colonel Campbell and Capt. Dasey – Gen. Greene’s Division.
- Martha died at the home of her daughter Jane “Jennie” (Scott) Mahan.
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