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Precinct of Rutland, Kentucky
Rutland Precinct - Its' Topography and physical features - Coming of the pioneers - Settlement, early industries, roads, etc. - Religious and educational - Villages
The division of Harrison County to which this chapter is devoted is known as Rutland and described as Election Precinct No. 5. It lies in the west part of the county, and is bounded north by Grant County, east by Berry and Unity Precincts, south by Unity Precinct and Scott County, west by Scott County, and contains a population of 975 of whom 9 per cent are colored. Tobacco raising is the chief product, though corn and wheat are grown to some extent. A number of small streams flow through the precinct, the principal of which are the North, Middle and South Forks of Raven's Creek; these also have a number of small tributaries. The surface is broken and hilly, with a general slope to the northeast. The people are intelligent, energetic, hospitable and alive to the importance of education, which is evinced in the number of schools in the precinct.
The settlement of Rutland Precinct was coeval with that of other portions of Harrison County. To say with positiveness who was the first settler in this immediate vicinity is beyond the power of the historian; the matter must be left in some degree of uncertainity. John Kemper, it is asserted, settled on the South Fork of Raven Creek as early as 1791, about one and a half miles from the present village of Rutland, where he built and operated a distillery. William Kinman, a native of Maryland, also settled on the South Fork of Raven Creek. Jonathan Hedges came from Virginia and settled on the farm now occupied by J. Burgess, three-fourths of a mile above Rutland, where he built a horse-mill. In the year 1791-92, Edmund Dunn settled on the farm now owned by Mr. Burgess above referred to. About the same time, Christopher Musselman settled on the farm now owned by T.W. Hardy. Benjamin Dunn and Thomas Redd settled on the Middle Fork of Raven Creek about the year 1792, where Redd built a mill. Lewis and Samuel Kendall also settled on the Middle fork of Raven Creek-the latter built a distillery ther. Frank Robinson settled on the North Fork of Raven. His house is still standing, and is occupied at present by J. Burgess, Jr., Thomas T. Thompson and Nicholas Miller, from Virginia, settled in the same neighborhood. The Renakers and the Faulkners, also Whitfield Collins, were early settlers of the precinct. Other families there were entitled to mention as early settlers, doubtless, but we have no record of them.
Could the chronicler of our early history draw a correct picture of this country eighty or ninety years ago, the reader would see, first, an almost unbroken forest, filled with skulking savages and wild beasts; and next the rough, unhewn log hut of the pioneer, its crevices filled with clay; the small clearing adjacent so covered with stumps that one could easily have leaped from one to another, and thus have passed over the entire farm. Could he, we repeat, draw such a picture, it would bring before many a reader similar scenes, whose impress has been left in the mind by the oft-repeated stories of the gray-haired grandsire, recounted with many an animated gesture, as he "lived o'er again those olden times." But these early scenes, surrounded by danger, are long since passed, and the waning quarter of the nineteenth century finds peace and plenty and security where its opening period showed nothing but danger and privation.
The first thought of the pioneer, after securing a home in the wilderness, was a mill, where he might obtain bread for his dear ones. The first mill in what is now Rutland Precinct was a horse-mill build by Jonathan Hedges, on a place now owned by Mr. Burgess. Thomas Redd built a mill on the Middle Fork of Raven Creek, somewhere about 1795. It was run by water-power, and relics of it are still to be seen upon the spot where it stood. John Kemper erected a distillery on the South Fork of Raven, one and a half miles from Rutland, about 1791-92. He was one of the first settlers in the precinct, and opened this distillery soon after his settlement, as whisky was deemed as essential then in the wilderness as meat and bread. Samuel Kendall also had a distillery on the Middle Fork of Raven very early. These distilleries presented a ready market for the settlers' surplus grain.
The principal roads through Rutland Precinct are the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Lexington Turnpike, which merely touches the northwest corner; the Mount Zion & Rutland pike, made in 1880, is to be continued to Hinton Station, on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, which passes along the border of the precinct. Rutland is now connected with Cynthiana by pike, a distance of eleven miles.
Religious training was not neglected by the early settlers of Rutland Precinct. About the year 1800, a church was organized by a minister of the name of Morehead known as the "Raven's Creek Baptist Church." The building was of hewn logs, and had a gallery all round on the inside for the men, as it would have been considered highly indecorous for the men and women to have occupied the same room during church service. The building, it is said, resembled a large, plain two-story house, with a huge square hole cut in the second floor. Among the first members of the church were the Kinmans, Dunns, Samuel Blair, Nicholas Miller and others of the early settlers of the surrounding country. Elders Thomas P. Dudley, George Marshall and Tobias Willoughby were some of the early preachers who administered to the wants of the congregation. Elder Dudley is still living in Lexington, and is about ninety years old. The church had once a strong membership. The building was finally crushed by a large tree falling on it, and the congregation, which had somewhat decreased in numbers, removed to Twin Creek Baptist Church, otherwise known as "Dutch Chapel." A colored church is situated in the extreme north part of the precinct, where the dusky population meet for Sabbath worship.
Friendship Baptist Church is located in the northern part of Rutland Precinct.
Rogers Chapel (Methodist) is located three miles south of Rutland Village, and was build in 1874. It has eighty members, under the pastorate of Rev. G.W. Lancaster Services every fourth Sunday.
The first school in the present precinct of Rutland was taught in a small log schoolhouse on the farm of Christopher Musselman. In this rude temple of learning, Willis Whitson applied the lubricating oil to the complicated machinery of the human mind as early as 1815-20. Most of the schools at that early day were taught in private dwellings. Among others of this kind, a man named Billy Duty did his duty to the rising generation by teaching a "subscription school" in the cabin of John Burgess. Thus the early educational mills ground on, until the establishing of free schools. At the present time, there are six schools in the precint, all flourishing and well attended.
The village of Rutland is situated four and a half miles from Hinton Station, on the Cincinnati Sourthern Railroad, and ten miles from Cynthiana. It has about thirty inhabitants, and was laid out, or settled, in 1848. The first house was built by Meredith Collins, on land given him by Whitfield Collins, and originally owned by William Kinman. Meredith Collins kept the first store in the place, and sold out to F.M. Bailey, who succeeded in getting a post office, of which he was made the Postmaster. Upon application for a post office, he bestowed the name "Rutland" on the village, in honor of Rutland, Vt. his native place. The mail is received from Hinton Station twice each week-on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The first mail route through Rutland Precinct was over the Leesburg & Williamstown State road, and was between Cynthiana and Williamstown. A.B. Bowen is the present Postmaster of Rutland. The village has one general store, one hotel, one blacksmith shop, one woolen factory, one shoemaker, one wagon-maker, one post office one teacher, one physician, tow barbers, one Masonic lodge.
Mullin Lodge, No. 296, A., F. & A. M., was established about the year 1850, mainly through the influence of John Mullin, the merchant and Postmaster of Rutland at that time, and from him it received its name. The present officers are C.H. Stewart, W.M.; Richard McKenney, S.W.; S.W. Collins, J.W.; Carter Redd, Treas.; and James L. Wolf, Sec. The lodge is in a flourishing condition, and has about sixty members, many of whom have taken the higher degrees, being members of the Commandery at Cynthiana.
Raven Creek Lodge, No. 584, A., F., & A., M., is located near Friendship Church, and was organized through the efforts of Thomas W. Hardy, in 1875. The first officers were Thomas W. Hardy, W.M.; Silas Dunn, S.W.; Jesse Hampton, J.W. The present officers are Z.T. Skinner, W.M.; P.S. Brooks, S.W.; Matt. Slattern, J.W. The names of twenty-six members are on the rolls, and "peace and harmony" prevail among them.- Perrin
WM. P. CROSTHWAIT, farmer; P. O. Rutland [post office]; was born in Harrison County, Oct. 20, 1814; his grandfather died in Virginia under the old British law, hence all the property was inherited by his oldest brother, Shelton. This brother was a wholesale merchant, and very wealthy; upon one occasion he gave a dinner to some of his friends, and was accidentally shot by one of his guests. Wm. Crosthwait, the father of our subject, was born in Virginia, and came to Kentucky about 1793, being then about twenty-one years of age; he settled on Mill Creek, about two and one-half miles west of Cynthiana, where he engaged in farming and working at the carpenter's trade; he was a soldier of the war of 1812-15; he died in 1833, aged about sixty years. W. P. Crosthwait, for whom this sketch was prepared, married first, Jane, daughter of Thomas and Ellen (Robinson) Faulconer, of Harrison County, whose birth occurred the same date of his own; they had four children, named respectively, Louisa, Mary E., Wm. T. and Susan; his wife died April 24, 1842, and July 7 of the same year, he was married to Emily, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Rodgers) Hutcherson, of Harrison County; by this wife he had six children, named, respectively; Sarah, Elizabeth, Lizzett, Jno. P., James M., Henry F. On the 9th of April, 1860, he was afflicted with the loss of his second wife, and on the 3rd of Oct. of the same year, he married Maria Trimble of Virginia, who bore him two children; Louisa E. and Maggie M.; he is now a widower for the third time; he has had thirty- nine grandchildren, thirty-six of whom are living; he was elected to the Magistracy of his precinct in 1859; he resigned in 1861; he is a Democrat, also a member of the Baird Presbyterian Church, of Scott County.
EDMUND P. FAULCONER, farmer; born in Harrison County, on the south fork of Raven Creek, Oct. 7, 1834; his two grandfathers, Richard Faulconer and Edmund Pollard, both came from Culpepper (sic) County, Va., while the prowling Indian still roamed this delightful hunting ground. Richard Faulconer was a farmer by occupation; he died in Harrison County, aged seventy. Benjamin Faulconer, father of our subject, was born in Harrison County; was a farmer; married first Emily Pollard, by whom he had nine boys; he then married Nancy Hawkins, of Scott County; his third wife was Mary J. Skinner, of Harrison, by whom he had three children; he died in Harrison in July, 1859. Edmund P. Faulconer was raised a farmer; he married Lucy Faulconer, daughter of Nathaniel Faulconer, who was an old soldier of the war of 1812, and whose father was one of the first settlers of Shelby County, having built the first mill that was ever built on South Elkhorn; he married Mary Straughan; four children were born to them; Robert H., April 15, 1867; Emily F., Nov. 26, 1870; Mary W., June 26, 1873; Sallie J., Nov. 19, 1879. His right of suffrage has always been exercised for the furthering of the interests of the Democratic party.
JNO. K. GRAY, farmer; P. O. Broadwel [post office]; his grandfather, Wm. Gray, came from Pennsylvania at an early day and settled in Harrison County, near Cynthiana, giving name to the stream known as Gray's Run, which rises near Leesburg and flows into South Licking, at Cynthiana. Having been an extensive trader in hogs and cattle, he was known very familiarly over the greater part of central Kentucky. His son, James Gray, the father of Jno. K., is still living at his home near Broadwell, in the enjoyment of a ripe old age (see Biog). On the 15th Nov., 1860, when in his twenty-fourth year, Jno. K. Gray was united in marriage to Marietta, daughter of James and Susan (Dewett) (sic) Henry, of Harrison County. Their union has been blessed with three children: James H. born Oct. 28, 1861; Mary S., born Aug. 6, 1863; Margaret Ann, born Jan. 14, 1868. Their home was invaded May 12, 1875, by the stern messenger of death, who bore away their youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Gray have for many years been in communion with the Silas Baptist Church, of Bourbon County. Both the children are also members of the same denomination - the daughter at Silas and and the son at Friendship, on Raven Creek. Mr. Gray devotes his entire attention to farming and stock raising, being the owner of about 260 acres of good blue grass land. During the progress of the Grange Lodge at Broadwell, he was one of the leading members. His suffrage has always been exercised for the support of the Democratic party.
GEORGE HAMPTON, farmer; P. O. Corinth [post office]; his grandfather, Andrew Hampton, paternal uncle of Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, came to Kentucky about the year 1790, and settled on the middle fork of Raven Creek. He engaged in farming, and through a long and useful life commanded the esteem of his fellow men. His remains repose in the old burying ground of Raven Creek. Thomas Hampton, the father of our subject, was born in Kentucky, about the time or shortly after his father's settlement. Besides farming, he acquired the trade of gunsmith, which he carried on with success for several years. He died at this home in Harrison County, May 9, 1837. George Hampton was born Feb. 18, 1832, and received his early training upon his father's farm. In the year 1857, he married Paulina, daughter of Crockett Evans, of Wales, Great Britain, by whom he has four children, named and aged frespectively: Asa, 17; Lucy, 15; Lena, 6; Gen. Wade, 5. In politics, Mr. Hampton is a staunch Democrat. Mrs. Hampton is a member of the Methodist Church, at Laton's Chapel, in Grant County, Ky.
NEWTON HENRY, a farmer; was born in Harrison County, Nov. 5, 1822; his grandfather, Thomas (sic) Henry, came from Virginia very early, and settled on the middle fork of Raven Creek; his life was spent in pursuing the peaceful avocation of husbandman; his death occurred about the year 1820. James Henry, father of Newton, was born in Virginia, and came out with his father, settling near him in the same part of Harrison County. He bore an honorable part in the war of 1812-15, but was spared to his family for more than half a century after its close. He died in the county, where most of his life had been spent, Nov. 3, 1866. Newton Henry spent his boyhood upon his father's farm, receiving what education could be gleaned from the country schools of that day. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Pollard and Louisa (Crosthwait) McKenney, of Harrison County, by whom he had three children; the only (sic) surviving one, James, was born Aug. 15, 1846. Mr. Henry has always been an ardent Republican. During the year 1864 he enlisted under Capt. Thomas Musselman, of the Harrison County Home Guards.
LEWIS M. HENRY, farmer; born in Harrison County about the year 1816. His grandfather, John Henry, came from Virginia very early and settled on the Middle Fork of Raven Creek where he died about the year 1820. Jas. Henry, father of Lewis, came out from Virginia when quite small; he followed farming for an occupation: he was in the war of 1812- 15; he died at home, aged sixty-five. Lewis M. Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Lucy (Matthews) Hampton, of Harrison; had nine children, eight of whom are living: Nellie J., James T., Richard H., George, Andrew, John, Lewis, and Allen. Mr. Henry is a member of the Friendship Baptist Church; his right of suffrage has always been exercised in the interest of the Democratic party.
JAMES S. KINMAN, farmer; born in Pike County, Indiana, April 23, 1824: his grandfather, James Kinman came from Georgia and settled in Indiana very early; Elijah Kinman, father of our subject, came from Georgia, and with his father, settled in Indiana, where he died in 1827, aged about fifty years. James S. Kinman, of whom we now write, came to Kentucky with his mother when about six years old, and settled on the middle fork of Raven Creek. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Alex. and Delilah (Fightmaster) Dungan, of Harison County. He was elected Constable of Rutland Precinct in 1853, and served nine months; in 1864 he was appointeed by the county court to fill out the unexpired term of W. N. Matthews, and elected to same in 1865; he served two years. Mrs. Kinman is a member of the Raven Creek Baptist Church. In politics Mr. Kinman is a Democrat.
GREENBERRY KINMAN, farmer; P.O. Hinton [post office]; his grandfather, William Kinman, came from Pennsylvania about 1800, and settled on the South fork of Raven, where he had two small distilleries for peach and apple brandy; he took great delight in hunting, and a relic of one of his expeditions is still preserved by his grandson in the shape of an elk horn. David Kinman, the father of our subject, was nine years old when his father came from Pennsylvania; he engaged chiefly in farming and transporting merchandise from the Ohio River to the interior of Kentucky; he died June, 1855, aged sixty-three years. Greenberry, when only seven years of age, went with his father and several others to the town of Augusta, and brought back salt on horseback; this was before a wagon road had been cut to that place from Cynthiana. On Sept. 4, 1843, he married Eliza, daughter of Edmond and Betsy (Hedger) Faulconer, by whom he had no children; on June 13, 1871, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Phoebe (Hedger) McKenney, of Harrison County. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Church at Boyer's Chapel; in politics Mr. Kinman was formerly a Whig, but since the disruption of the Know-nothing party he has cast his lot with the Democrats.
C.P. KINMAN, farmer; was born in Indiana, Oct. 20, 1827. (For history of ancestry, see biography of his brother, James S. Kinman.) He married Louisa, daughter of Thos. and Lucy (Matthews) Hampton, of Harrison County, by whom he had seven children, five of whom survive, viz; Jesse, born March 3, 1861; Elijah, born May 1, 1863; Mary A. born July 31, 1866; Elizabeth, born Jan. 18, 1872; Daniel M., born Aug. 23, 1879. Mrs. Kinman is a member of the Raven Creek Baptist Church. Politically, Mr. Kinman is a Democrat; was for a number of years an active member of the Raven Creek order of Patrons of Husbandry.
RICHARD MATTHEWS, farmer; P.O. Hinton [post office]; was born in Harrison County, Feb. 25, 1839; his grandfather, Richard Matthews, came from Virginia at an early day, and settled in Harrison County; he married Susan, sister of Whitfield Collins; he died in Harrison County in 1837, upwards of three score and ten years of age. Lewis Matthews, father of our subject, was born in Harrison County, in 1817; he was a farmer, he married Jane, daughter of Thomas and Betsey (Kendall) Redd; he was noted for his fondness for hunting, and other out-door sports; he perhaps killed more deer than any other man of his day; he was an exceptionally good marksman, and at the outbreak of the Mexican war he was Captain of a rifle company. Richard Matthews spent his early life upon his father's farm; when nineteen years of age he married Fannie J., daughter of Colby and Ann (Henry) Brooks, by whom he had six children, four of whom are living, aged as follows: Annie S., twenty-one; Thomas, eighteen; Jane, sixteen; Ollie, thirteen; his wife died Feb. 21, 1870; he next married Rosa, daughter of John F. and Mary (Woolums) Linn, by whom he is the father of four children, three of whom survive, viz: Mary E., aged nine; Levie, six; Effie, four, and Maggie, two; he is a member of Friendship Baptist Church; politics, Democrat.
W.N. MATTHEWS, farmer; P.O. Hinton [post office]; was born in Harrison County, June 22, 1837; his grandfather, Richard Matthews, came from Virginia at an early day, and settled in Harrison County, where he engaged in farming; also had copper distillery on his place, in which he worked up the produce of his own and adjoining farms. He died at an advanced age, and is buried on the farm now occupied by his grandson. The father of our subject is still living, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, stout and active. W.N. Matthews was raised as a farmer, which occupation he has successfully prosecuted, being the owner of 325 acres of good land, lying on the middle fork of Raven Creek. On the 30th of September, 1858, he married Eunice, daughter of Isaac and Eunice (Coulston) Ramey, of Harrison County, by whom he has eight children, four boys and four girls, named respectively: Mary E., Lucy E., Alfred R., Robert B., George C., Eva J., Flora B., and James T. In 1863 he was elected Constable of Rutland Precinct, but resigned in 1864, to enlist in the Federal army; he was elected Captain of Co. I, 1st Kentucky State Guards, under Col. E.P. Hawkins, and Lieut. Col. J.J. Craddock; he served till the close of the war, receiving his discharge in 1865. After the war he was nominated by the Republican party for the office of Magistrate, but was defeated by John Burgess, the Democratic nominee. In 1869 he was elected Magistrate as an Independent candidate, over A.J. Perkins, the champion of the Democratic party; was elected to the same office again in 1879, as an Independent candidate, over John Burgess, his first opponent; is a member of Raven Creek (Masonic) Lodge; has filled every office in it, from Tyler to Master; is Treasurer at the present time. Till the outbreak of the war he was a Democrat; his opposition to seccession accounts for his present political views.
W.H. MARTIN, Jr., farmer; P.O. Corinth [post office]; born in Harrison County, April 28, 1826, being the oldest of nine children. The longevity of his family is rather remarkable; his grandfather, Benjamin Martin, being over one hundred years of age at the time of his death, and all of his children being still alive but one. Benjamin Martin was among the first of those who left the soil of Old Virginia and sought a home in the land of cane. He made his first settlement in Bourbon County, and took an active part in those early struggles which fell to the lot of every frontiersman, and served with honor throughout the war of 1812. In company with his family, among whom was William Martin, Sr., the father of our subject, he moved to Harrison County about the year 1825, and settled near where Casey's mill now stands, on Raven Creek. W.H. Martin, Jr., of whom we write, was raised a farmer, and notwithstanding his limited education, has managed his affairs with economy and foresight; he finds himself now in possession of a good farm of 140 acres, which he is constantly improving and enlarging. His staple crop is tobacco, the handling of which he understands to advantage. He married Zerelda, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Johnson) Johnson, of Clark County, Ky., by whom he has had eleven children, seven of whom are living; John William, aged 24; Mary Ann, 23; Edward and Almi, 22; Martha, 19, Ida, 17; Andrew, 13. Mrs. Martin is a member of the Crooked Creek Baptist Church, of Grant County. In politics Mr. Martin is a Democrat.
LORENZO McKENNEY, farmer; he was a native of Harrison County, where he was born Oct. 28, 1842. His grandfather, Traverse McKenney, of Virginia, was one of the early settlers of Harrison County. Pollard McKenney, father of our subject, was twelve years of age when he accompanied his father, Traverse, to the then unsettled wilds of Kentucky. A quarter of a century ago he was familiarly known in Scott, Harrison and Owen counties, where he carried on an extensive and lucrative trade im cattle and hogs; he died in 1876, aged sixty-eight. Lorenzo McKenny, his son, and the subject of this sketch, spent his early life upon his father's farm. On the 3d of Sept. 1863, he married Louisa, eldest daughter of William P. and Jane (Faulconer) Crosthwait, of Harrison County, who has borne him severn children, the dates of whose births are as follows: Martha E., Dec. 24, 1875; Louisa, Oct. 11, 1867; Wm. P. Aug. 2, 1869; Thos. N., Sept. 28, 1871; Mary E., June 13, 1874; Richard F., April 26, 1877; Maggie E., April 17, 1880. For several years both himself and wife have been in communion with the Methodist Church, South, holding their membership at Boyer's Chapel. In politics Mr. McKenney has always identified himself with the Democratic party.
JACOB PERKINS, farmer; P.O. Hinton; was born in Harrison County, Ky., April 15, 1848; is the son of Eli Perkins, and the grandson of John Perkins, both natives of Harrison County; his father has been engaged in farming all his life, and is still living in Scott County, aged about sixty years. In 1867Jacob Perkins was married to Cannarissa, daughter of Calton and Margaret (Hinton) Bailey, of Scott County; five children have been born to them, four of whom still survive: George W., born April 17, 1869; Mary E., born Feb. 26, 1871; Josie A., born March 30, 1873; Leathy, born Sept. 5, 1879. Himself and wife hold their church membership at Byer's [sic] Chapel; politically, he has always been identified with the Democratic party.
JNO. S. SCOTT, farmer; was born in Sussex County, Del., May 8, 1821; his grandfather, William Scott, was one of five brothers who emigrated from Ireland and settled in Virginia; in 1781, he came from Virginia and settled on Boyd's Run, near Newtown, in what is now Bourbon County; he took an active part in the early struggles with the Indians; he was Captain of a scouting party, and one of the number who followed to the Ohio River the murderers of the Shanks family; about 1794 he moved to Harrison County and settled on Gray's Run, near Cynthiana, where he died in 1831, aged eighty-six. Jno. Scott, father of Jno. S., was born in Virginia, Sept. 1, 1773, and was hence eight years old when his father came to Kentucky; went with his father in pursuit of Indians who killed Shanks' family; in 1808, he freed about thirty of his slaves; in 1806, he married Lavina Stafford, of Harrison County, by whom he had one child, James, who afterwards took a boat load of whisky and flour to New Orleans, and was murdered there; in 1808, he moved to Delaware, where he married Annie Handy, of Delaware, his first wife having died in childbirth; in 1812, he enlisted in the war, during which he rendered some valuable services; in 1814 he took the first ship load of lumber to Washington, to be used in the erection of the Capitol Building; he returned to Kentucky in 1826, living one year each in Pittsburg and Cincinnati, on his way back; upon his arrival in Kentucky he settled at Leesburg and started a store; in 1830, he moved to Leeslick; in 1841, he moved to Raven Creek and bought a farm; in 1850, he moved to Grant County; thence to Leeslick in 1853, engaging in merchandising in both places; in 1855, he came to live with his son, Jno. S., where he continued to sell goods till his death, which occurred Oct. 11, 1860, he then being in his eighty-eighth year. Jno. S. Scott came to Kentucky with his father, and lived with him till he was twenty-four years old; March 7, 1844, he married Sarah, daughter of Captain James and Annie (Webber) Burgess; they hav eight living children; James T., born Dec. 25, 1844; Wm. W., June 8, 1846; Jno. B., April 10, 1848; Sarah, March 10, 1854; Louisa, April 9, 1856; Effie J., Sept. 24, 1860; Henry, May 17, 1863; Charles, June 15, 1865. Mr. Scott was one of the first members of Mullin (Masonic) Lodge, at Rutland, now a member of Raven Creek, which lodge was dedicated by him; in 1854, he was elected Magistrate and served four years; since 1858, he has been Deputy County Clerk, except the seven years that he sold goods; has been a farmer all his life; owns 320 acres of land on Raven Creek; in the way of curiosities, he has now in his possession a quilt which was pieced by his mother in 1812; the calico was bought while the embargo act was in force, and cost from seventy-five cents to one dollar per yard. Mr. Scott is a member of the Methodist Church at Mt. Zion; in politics he is a thorough Democrat.
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