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Moses Scott,
Son of Robert and
Winifred (Green) Scott
MOSES SCOTT (1 March 1789 - 3 May 1850)
AND WIFE, ELIZABETH SHINDLER (10 December 1790 - 19 September 1864)
OF SCOTTSVILLE,
LAFAYETTE
TOWNSHIP,
FLOYD
COUNTY,
INDIANA
-- INTRODUCTION --
Wesley G. Scott (1831 - 1907) with
the help of his daughters -- Hannah (Mrs. Levi H.) Scott, Libbie (Mrs.
Alexander) Dean, Eunice (Mrs. Julian T.) Miller -- were key
individuals who passed along and handed down significant information
regarding the generations of Scott families who had settled around
Scottsville, Floyd County, Indiana. Wesley Scott, village
blacksmith and postmaster of Scottsville, was a second generation
“Hoosier” who among his relatives was the first to organize ancestral
recollections. Some believe that his daughters helped him in this
effort, and during an illness late in Wesley’s life, one of his
daughters wrote important memories before his death. After his death
in 1907, arrangements were made by his daughters to type, edit, and
eventually distribute the memoirs to all who may be interested. The
memoirs have been included in Floyd County records at the City-County
Building, New Albany, Indiana. On December 9, 1933, they were placed
in Book 12, Miscellaneous Records, #2280, pages 4 & 5.
Through the generations, the
memoirs were passed down from relative to relative, and found their
way into Southern Indiana libraries. Lennie R. Berkey, deceased, from
Salem, Indiana once discovered “old” papers at the home of nephew,
Billy Martin, Martinsburg, Indiana. The old papers turned out to be
“Wesley’s memoirs!” Lennie re-copied them and sent them to the Salem,
Indiana Public Library. They were re-copied again by Helen Burgess in
1969. Mrs. R. H. Konig, Carmel, California sent me her copy and it
contained two extra sentences. By now, one can find some variations
on Wesley’s memoirs including annotations and notes attached. The New
Albany-Floyd County Public Library, Indiana Room has long made its
copies available to the public. The DAR, Piankeshaw Chapter,
Genealogical Records Committee, included Wesley’s memoirs in their
book, “Bible Records and Family Records, pages 163-174.” So, whether
Wesley's memoirs are in libraries or in personal records of interested
Scotts and their many allied families, the memoirs can be found with
one common name, Wesley G. Scott, and entitled, “The Scott Family: A
Pioneer Family of Kentucky and Indiana.”
Cuthbert L. "Bert" Scott, II, and
his son, C. L. "Bert" Scott, III, had in their possession the earliest
manuscript of Wesley G. Scott's memoirs. It came directly from Wesley
Scott's daughter, Hannah (Mrs. Levi H.) Scott. Hannah and Levi Scott
gave the document to their daughter, Berla Esther (Scott) Stamper, who
gave it to Cuthbert Scott II. This document obtained by Cuthbert L.
Scott, II, was dated New Albany, Indiana, 12 January 1906. In that
year Hannah and Levi H. Scott resided in New Albany.
I have not seen any other oral
history documents earlier than 1906, so I have re-copied in
Appendix E this earliest manuscript loaned to me by Cuthbert L.
"Bert" Scott, II. In Appendix E, I chose not to append all the
other manuscripts named above but simply point out in footnote style
where variations occurred among them. Hannah and Levi H. Scott's
manuscript of Wesley G. Scott's memoirs can now be compared with the
other manuscripts named above. The variations between all the
manuscripts named above are in Appendix E with footnotes to
point out differences among them. None of the manuscript differences
were due to modern genealogical research. Since the documents named
above were oral history folklore, observable differences have come
from within oral history viewpoints. Obviously some differences were
due to re-typing, editing, rearrangements, and typewriter smudges.
But, other differences were based on oral history which came through
different branches of the Scott family. The purpose of Appendix E
is to show noticeable differences among the documents named above.
Wesley Scott was not perfect in his
recollections. Some family members were embarrassed by his flawed and
frail remembrances or they were embarrassed by his infatuation with
famous, historic Scotts or embarrassed with his glorifications or
ramblings about literary Scotts or religious Scotts. Also, Wesley
Scott did not pretend to be exact about dates and frustrated family
researchers who have used his descriptions for historical
information. In reality, Wesley Scott's memoirs were developed a few
years before his death when he was elderly and frail at the age of
75. His memories brought him comfort in old age and he added some
schmaltz to the tradition of being a Scott. He died 25 June 1907, New
Albany, Indiana, home of his daughter, Mrs. Julian T. (Eunice Scott)
Miller, 312 Lafayette Street, New Albany with funeral service at
Chapel Hill Christian Church, Greenville Township, Floyd County,
Indiana. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Frank T. Porter, pastor of
Park Christian Church, New Albany.
So, if anyone is aware of other family lore within the Scott
lineage, they may compare and evaluate their stories with those
compared in Appendix E of this document.
My research of the Scott families
has been motivated by the work of Wesley G. Scott and contemporary
persons who were researching their migrating ancestors on the
frontier. I have tried to fill in the gaps based on research into the
events and mood of the place and time. I have tried to look into the
places where they lived and tempered it with respect. My work
contains narration to accommodate the flow of ancestral history. My
resolve is that family not be lost from memory.
This document features Moses Scott,
son of Robert Scott and Winifred Green, with information about
Elizabeth Shindler, his wife, and their descendants. The earliest
references about the family lore of Moses Scott can be found in
Appendix E.
You should be aware that I have used
different color codes (text
color and background color) for highlighting the children and
some of the grandchildren of Moses and Elizabeth (Shindler) Scott.
When giving a list of their children’s names, the color code helps
organize and present that child’s lineage.
This document was first
distributed on CD/DVDs to interested folks at the Scott Family
Reunion, held at Chapel Hill Community Building, Chapel Hill Christian
Church, Floyd County, Indiana, on 22 July 2006. Microsoft Office Word
2003 was the chosen software due its large popularity. It is hoped
that interested persons can use the CD/DVD media to make additions to
their family and keep their own family tree moving forward. When
errors are found in this work, they can be corrected and new
information can always be inserted.
Footnote entries with, etc. following can be clicked to go to the source
document. Clicking the again will return you to
the previous text spot. Example Rev. J. S. Woods. The 1877-78 New Albany,
Indiana City Directory, and clinking the
This research has been dedicated
to my parents, Seibert and Virginia (Scott) Scott and my wife, Judy,
and, daughter, Courtney Ann (Scott) Doran.
Sincerely,
Nelson S. Scott
418 Swisher Avenue
Danville, Illinois 61832
(In the year of 2006)
Moses Scott,
Son of Robert and
Winifred (Green) Scott
FIRST GENERATION IN AMERICA was
Robert Scott and wife, Winifred Green.
SECOND GENERATION
1. MOSES SCOTT
was born 1 March 1789, Woodford County, Virginia,[1]
died 3 May 1850, age 61 years, 2 months and 2 days,[2]
Scottsville, Floyd County, Indiana, buried Mt. Eden Cemetery,
Greenville Township, Floyd County, Indiana, married
[3] 23 May 1810, Beech Creek Baptist
Church, Shelby County, Kentucky, Elizabeth Shindler, born 10 December
1790, Virginia or Pennsylvania, died 19 September 1864, Scottsville,
Floyd County, Indiana, buried Mt. Eden Cemetery, Greenville Township,
Floyd County, Indiana.
Elizabeth Shindler’s father was
Johann George Shindler.[4]
Elizabeth’s mother’s name was not known.
Moses Scott was the son of Robert
Scott and Winifred (Green) Scott. Robert Scott was born 1760,
Scotland,[5]
died between April and August, 1824, Shelby County, Kentucky, burial
Shelby County, Kentucky,[6]
married around 1778,[7]
place not available, Winifred Green, birth date not available, born
probably Wales or Scotland,[8]
died between 1802 and 1811, Montgomery County, Kentucky, burial
Montgomery County, Kentucky.[9]
Winifred Green’s parents were not known. The Greens and Scotts were
early settlers in Kentucky, around Versailles, Woodford County. See
Appendix C for a brief over-view of the seven children born to
their marriage.
THE HISTORY OF MOSES AND ELIZABETH (SHINDLER) SCOTT’S MIGRATION
TO
FLOYD COUNTY, INDIANA
Moses Scott and his brother, John
Scott, migrated to Indiana around the summer of 1814 or earlier with
their father, Robert Scott and their uncle Archelaus Scott (whose
nickname was “Elaus”, misconstrued by family history as “Elijah
Scott”). Archelaus Scott’s sons, Harmon and David, came with them,
too. On their exploratory trip to the Northwest Territory, these
Scotts and other friends in Shelby County, Kentucky were looking at
land as they traveled over the knobs north of New Albany, Indiana, or
as they traveled up the Silver Creek Valley, a stream that flowed
between Clarksville and New Albany going as far north as present day
Bennettsville, Clark County, Indiana and from there traveling west
over the knobs along the present day St. John Road.
The following description gives
another basic trail over the knobs from Green Valley Road, New Albany,
Indiana: “An Indian trail once led from the Falls of the Ohio across
the extensive bottom east of the knobs, and up along the foot of the
knobs to Bald Knob, over which it passed, thus entering the present
limits of this township (Lafayette Township) at that point. Passing
down the westward slope of the knobs, the trail took a line through
the woods in a south-easterly (surely the author meant westerly)
direction, until it joined the main trail (Vincennes Trace - Buffalo
Trail) from the Falls of the Ohio to Vincennes, somewhere probably,
within the present limits of Greenville Township. One of the first
roads through the county subsequently followed this trail over Bald
knob, but has since been changed.”
[10]
If they traveled up the Silver
Creek Valley to Bennettsville, they then went west along the border
lands between Clark and Floyd Counties as far west as Martinsburg,
Indiana, where the old Bear Creek Trail and stream began near the
intersection of Washington and Floyd County. They especially explored
land in southeast Washington County. Back then, this path was in the
domain of Clark and Harrison Counties and also in the newly
established (January, 1814) Washington County. Floyd County was not
established until 1819. Due to the Scotts’ federal land purchases
along the Floyd and Clark boundary and the Bear Creek Trail vicinity
in southeast Washington County, the Scott explorers likely traveled
over The Bald Knobs Indian Trail or they traveled up the Silver Creek
Valley to Bennettsville, Clark County, and went west through the upper
knobs on a trail along the present-day St. John Road of Clark County.
The Upper St. John Road Trail from Bennettsville going west would have
allowed them to pass through the tiny tributary streams that form Big
Indian Creek and Little Indian Creek of Clark County and Bannaman
Creek of Floyd County. The lower Bald Knob Trail of Floyd County and
Upper Trail from Bennettsville were as important as the Old Vincennes
Trace or Buffalo Trail towards Galena and Greenville and Palmyra,
Indiana. All of these trails (Bald Knob, Upper Trail from
Bennettsville, Vincennes Trace/Buffalo Trail) merged together between
Martinsburg and Palmyra Indiana with the Bear Creek Trail whose
tributaries orginated in Section 19, Township 1 South, Range 6 East.
Wesley G. Scott’s memoirs mentioned that the Scotts took the north
track from New Albany rather than the Old Vincennes Trace track.
During this exploration trip they discovered lands which they would
soon erect cabins and purchase land before their families would
arrive. They probably visited the Jeffersonville Land Office for
additional information on land they had explored and then returned to
Shelby County, Kentucky.
On October 10, 1816, Robert Scott
made his only Indiana land purchase, 183.25 acres, Northwest Section
19, Township 1 South, Range 5 East. He claimed residence in Clark
County, Indiana.[11]
He was in Registry Receipts Books, Receipt #10893, which indicated
that he completed payments. At the time of Robert Scott’s entry
Section 19, Township 1 South, Range 5 East, and Section 24,
Township 1 South, Range 4 East (adjoining sections) were
officially in the domain of Harrison County, Indiana. On 5 January
1828, the Indiana Legislature removed these sections to Floyd County,
Indiana.[12]
His land was on the Bear Creek Trail where its stream flowed northwest
towards Martinsburg, Indiana. At the time Robert Scott explored and
purchased this land, he may have believed that it was in Clark County
because the Clark County boundary was less than ½ mile northeast of
his first log cabin.
Archelaus Scott was the first
teacher who taught in the first school house erected in 1816, Pierce
Township, Washington County, Indiana. It was built in Section 14,
Township 1 North, Range 4 East, near where the Motsinger schoolhouse
stood about ¼ mile northwest of Pekin, Indiana, near Shorts corner.[13]
On December 24, 1822, Archelaus Scott of Jackson Township,
Washington County, Indiana, sold 80 acres, West ½ of Southwest ¼ ,
Section 24, Township 1 South, Range 4 East, land adjoining John Duvaco,
south side, and adjoining Frederick Watty’s, (Waddy) land. The deed
said that Frederick Watty was from Fayette County, Kentucky.[14]
From 1816 (Indiana’s statehood) through 1828, Section 24 and the
adjacent east Section 19, Township 1 South, Range 5 East, (Robert
Scott’s land) have deeds recorded in three counties: Clark, Floyd, and
Washington Counties. But, according to the Laws of Indiana enacted
for these two sections, they were supposed to be in Harrison County,
Indiana. The early deed records in Harrison County, Indiana are
missing. Clark, Floyd, and Washington County show very few deeds in
these two sections from 1816-1829.[15]
These two sections contained the early known Bear Creek Trail, which
later was called the Vincennes Trace route which pioneers used to move
north and westward from the Ohio River Falls. In Sections 24 and 19,
the Bear Creek Trail runs atop the Wilcoxen Cave and goes west along
Bear Creek, a major passage way for pioneers moving into Washington,
Orange, Dubois, Davis, Pike and Knox (Vincennes, Indiana) counties.
Inhabitants in Sections 24 & 19 were recorded in the 1820 Washington
County, Indiana Census. Clark, Washington, and Floyd County
settlement entries for Sections 24 and 19 are very incomplete and some
entries are definitely missing between the years of 1816 - 1829.
Nevertheless, Archelaus Scott’s
Section 24 ownership of 80 acres was a purchase he made prior to 1820
because his son, Harmon Scott was listed on this Jackson Township
property in the 1820 Indiana Census of Washington County. Archelaus
Scott’s brother, Robert Scott was likewise listed in the same census
living near Harmon Scott. Robert Scott’s ownership of 183.25 acres in
Section 19 makes certain a common migration of Archelaus Scott moving
with his brother Robert and Archelaus’ son, Harmon, and all were
living less than 1 mile apart on Bear Creek Trail.[16]
On 5 January 1828, the Indiana Legislature removed both sections from
Harrison County to Floyd County, Indiana.[17]
Archelaus Scott also had another
Washington County, Indiana property site, 320 acres, East ½, Section
27, Township 2 North, Range 4 East, located on present day Highway 60,
2 miles southeast of Salem, Indiana. His down payment on these 320
acres began 28 December 1816 with final payment on 29 December 1817,
receipt #11482. When applying for this purchase, he said that his
residence was Shelby County, Kentucky.[18]
When Archelaus sold his property in Jackson Township, Washington
County, on December 24, 1822, it marked the time when his son, Harmon,
moved from his father’s land into Lafayette Township, Floyd County,
Indiana. Harmon Scott took temporary residence on land that his
cousins John and Moses Scott had obtained in northwest Lafayette
Township, bordering Clark County. Harmon Scott eventually purchased
76 acres from William McCutchan and wife, 7 September 1831,
West ½ of Northwest ¼, Section 30, Township 1 South, Range 6 East,[19]
which was only ½ mile east of John and Moses Scott’s land, Northeast
and Northwest Quarters, Section 25, Township 1 South, Range 5 East.
John and Moses along with Harmon Scott established a village which was
eventually named “Scottsville” on land owned by John and Moses Scott.[20]
It was laid out on East ½ of Northwest ¼, Section 25, Township 1
South, Range 5 East. Scottsville was established 23 March 1853. It
was located 1/8 mile south of the boundary line for Clark and Floyd
counties. There were two streets West and Main Street. Main Street
is now called the Scottsville Road which connected northwest Lafayette
Township with the town of Mooresville or present day Floyds Knobs,
Indiana, on U.S. Highway 150.
The brothers Moses and John Scott were mutual partners in
purchasing federal land in Indiana. Their partnership was somewhat
unusual but it was likely desired by their father, Robert. While
their father was alive, they made their first Indiana purchases; but,
after their father’s death in 1824, they made additional purchases.
Nelson Scott received three documents of their purchases from the
Bureau of Land Management (Jeffersonville, Indiana District Office
documents) and they are listed chronologically.
(1) John and
Moses Scott of Floyd County, Indiana, purchased land from William
Brown, Shelby County, Kentucky, who held indebtedness on an Indiana
Land Certificate originally dated 16 October 1818. John and Moses
Scott removed the indebtedness by paying Mr. Brown and also paid the
federal government the unpaid land costs plus interest. The land
certificate # 1325 was issued to John and Moses Scott of Floyd County,
Indiana, on January 5, 1825, when William Brown was then resident of
Harrison County, Indiana. The purchase was 80 acres, West ½,
Northeast ¼, Section 25, Township 1 South, Range 5 East. This land
would later become the Town of Scottsville.
(2) On the
same date of January 5, 1825, John Wilson of Clark County, Indiana,
sold them (acreage not given but location described 80 acres) his
Floyd County land, East
½, Southeast ¼, Section 20, Township 1 South, Range 6 East, with the
Bureau of Land Management holding a record of that purchase submitted
by Justice of the Peace, Mr. O. Raymond of Clark County, Indiana.
Somebody goofed in writing this deed! Section 20 was adjacent to
Floyd County but actually located in present day Carr Township, Clark
County, 1 ½ miles northeast of the Scotts holdings in Section 25.
(3) Section 20 in Clark County, Indiana, was
the site of a third purchase. John and Moses Scott purchased from
John M. Smith of Clark County, Indiana, his land certificate # 7412.
John M. Smith had made full credit payments from September, 1819 thru
September, 1823, on 80 acres, West ½, Southwest ¼, Section 20,
Township 1 South, R6E. This was the location of John and Moses
Scott’s purchased land from John M. Smith.
These above purchases were
obtained by Nelson S. Scott from the Bureau of Land Management,
Jeffersonville Land Office.
(4) Then John and Moses Scott added to their 80
acres (Section 25) Floyd County land by buying an additional 40 acres,
Northeast ¼ of Northeast ¼ , Section 25, Township 1 South, Range 5
East, certificate # 11975, issued on 15 August 1838. John Scott
without his brother’s involvement also purchased 40 acres, Southeast ¼
of Northeast ¼, Section 25, Township 1 South, Range 5 East,
certificate # 9544, on 2 August 1838; and another 80 acres, West ½,
Northwest ¼, Section 31, T1S, R6E, on 10 October 1840.[21]
In tracing federal land purchases, Nelson Scott has noted that
government land deeds held by county recorders have indicated that the
owners of government land actually had possession of their land and
duly noted in county records as much as 2 to 4 years before the Bureau
of Land Management dated the certificates for issuing the patents.
The pioneers did not receive a patented certificate until the federal
government duly processed their final payment. So, John and Moses
Scott’s partnership purchases on 14 August 1838 and John Scott’s
independent purchase on 2 August 1838 and 10 October 1840 were entries
actually possessed by them around 1834 - 1837!
Eventually John and Moses Scott
divided among themselves the mutually held lands in Section 25.[22]
Moses Scott made separate land
purchases in Wood Township, Clark County, Indiana, less than ¼ mile
north of his land in Lafayette Township.[23]
Moses Scott household, 1820 U.S.
census, Floyd County, Indiana, page 155; National Archives micro
publication M33, roll 13: Moses Scott, 1 male of 26 under 45;
5 females under 10; 1 female of 26 under 45; neighbors were Samuel
McCutchan, Jr., and Samuel McCutchan, Sr.; John Galloway; Jesse
Pearson; Alexander Dunbar; George Walker, Samuel and John Jackson.
The historic settlement of Moses
and John Scott was featured in
History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties, Volume
II, L.A. Williams & Company,
Cleveland, Ohio, 1882, “Scottsville, Indiana” and has been reproduced
in Appendix D of this document.
THE
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION OF MOSES AND ELIZABETH (SHINDLER) SCOTT
Moses and Elizabeth
Scott were active members of the Mount Eden Church, Greenville
Township, Floyd County, Indiana. They helped name the church after
their Mt. Eden community in southeast Shelby County, Kentucky.[24]
The Floyd county “Mt. Eden Church” was first named, “Mt. Eden, the
Baptist Church of Jesus Christ.” It was established January 9, 1828
by Jonathan Emmons, George Brock, and William Jackson. From the very
beginning of its establishment, Mt. Eden was affiliated with the
Silver Creek Baptist Association. Henry K. Shaw wrote that this
association of Baptists was largely “Separate Baptists from North
Carolina and Virginia who had lived a few years in Kentucky and had
views modified by the Kentucky Revival.”[25]
The Silver Creek Association’s leading ministers from 1813 to 1837
were brothers, John Thompson Littell (1790-1848) and Absolem Littell
(1788-1862), sons of Absolem Littell, a Presbyterian Elder who settled
on Silver Creek, Clark County, Indiana in 1799. The father and sons
became members of the Silver Creek Baptist Church which was a key
congregation in establishing the Silver Creek Baptist Association.
John and Absolem Littell were moderator and clerk, respectively, of
the Silver Creek Baptist Association from 1827 to 1837 when it
disbanded. John and Absolem had read Alexander Campbell’s
Christian Baptist (a periodical) and along with other pastors and
laity moved the Association away from Baptist viewpoints into the
direction of the Christian Church.[26]
At an Association meeting held in 1837 at the Friendship Baptist
Church, Washington County, Indiana, the Silver Creek Association
disbanded itself as being a Baptist entity. In the case of Mt. Eden,
no division was reported within the congregation over reforming itself
into a Christian Church. So, by 1837, Mt. Eden was a Christian
Church.
Though the Scott settlers were not
necessarily Baptists, they felt comfortable attending this church in
their neighborhood with their friends. At the time of their migration
to Floyd County from Shelby County, Kentucky, their faith was going
through a transition from the influence of Barton W. Stone, a Scottish
Presbyterian Pastor of the Crane Ridge Kentucky Presbyterian
meetinghouse, located in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Barton Stone was
expelled by the Presbyterians due to his doctrines. Yet other
Kentucky pastors held similar views of Barton W. Stone and they formed
a new movement called the Christian Church or sometimes called the New
Light Church. Its members went by the name of “New Lights.”
The confusion among early American
Presbyterians regarding theology and ministerial leadership was
probably very interesting to Robert and Archelaus Scott because the
Presbyterian Church was the Church of Scotland, their mother church in
the old homeland and back then it was the historic church of Scott
relatives and friends in Scotland and portions of Wales! The Scotts
were ethnic immigrants beholding to Scotch-Welch and/or Scotch-Irish
religious leaders who were involved with the “New Light” or Christian
Church movement.
The children of Robert and
Archelaus Scott were reared in the pioneer days of Kentucky religious
life. One of the chief features of Kentucky religious life was the
absence of ordained Presbyterian pastors to keep in contact with
Scotland immigrants and to help take their church from region to
region observing the preaching, teaching, and sacraments. The few
Scotch pastors who came to do this work were men like Thomas and
Alexander Campbell, Barton W. Stone, and Walter Scott. They came with
their points of differences with the established Church of Scotland
and with confusion about leadership and theology among Presbyterians
in early America. In Kentucky, they began a new movement among Scott
families to reorganize the church and take it from place to place.
The Scott families bonded with these fellow Scotch reformers and
accepted their reforming principles which eventually led to the
formation of the Christian Church in Indiana and Kentucky and later
would create the Christian Church Conference in Indiana. Thus during
the life of Moses and Elizabeth (Shindler) Scott and Moses’ brother,
John and his wife, Anna Reasor, and their cousin, Harmon Scott and his
wife, Margaret Reasor, the church became known as the Mt. Eden
Christian Church.
An interesting sidebar: According to the
Gospel Luminary (“old” Christian periodical dated April, 1826,
page 91), Rev. John Mavity, who performed the second marriage of
Robert Scott (Moses’ father) on 30 September 1812, to Abagail (Harmon)
Hedden, had also migrated to Indiana by 1826. Pastor John Mavity was
named as one of the ordained ministers of the Indiana Christian Church
Conference.[27]
Indiana’s first congregation of the Christian Church was organized by
Rev. Clement Nance in Floyd County, Indiana, March, 1805. Nance was a
Christian Church minister with a Republican Methodist background and
was generally considered to be the pioneer Christian Church pastor in
Indiana. The Kentucky Christian “New Lights” were a strong influence
in establishing Mt. Eden Church.[28]
Upon the deaths of Moses and
Elizabeth Scott and other original founders, the Mt. Eden Christian
Church went through another faith transition when the core leadership
of Mt. Eden decided to build a new church facility toward the end of
the civil war.
During the Civil War years
(1861-1865), a shift had been taking place throughout southern Indiana
to replace hewed log edifices with clay brick buildings or framed
wooden buildings. That probably was an issue at Mt. Eden Church
because other churches were being rebuilt throughout southern
Indiana. When the decision was made to build a new church, a few
members of Mt. Eden did not want to leave the log church for one
reason or another, so the name Mt. Eden was kept by those who stayed
at the old site and the new site was called Chapel Hill Christian
Church, formed and built in 1866. The Chapel Hill Church was located
one mile west of Mt. Eden on the Chapel Hill Road. Chapel Hill went up
as a frame wood building due to the timber industry in the community.
Chapel Hill’s membership in 1866 was almost 100% from the Mt. Eden
Church. No records were available about the membership that remained
at Mt. Eden; but, it was probably the original 14 charter members of
the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and their
family members. After Chapel Hill was established in 1866, William
Wallace Blair, a missionary of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints, came
preaching to the Mt. Eden Church. Blair went from region to region.
He was not a local resident. His family resided in Amboy, Illinois.
W. W. Blair went on to become the Counselor to President Joseph Smith
III of the Reorganized Latter
Day Saints (RLDS). Blair
served as a member of the First Presidency of the Church for 23
years. On 5 June 1870, W. W. Blair officially organized Mount Eden
into a branch of the RLDS. At
this point in time, Mt. Eden was no longer a Christian Church. The 14
charter members were as follows: James G. Scott; John A. Scott; Moses
R. Scott; David Scott; Gabriel Bell; Green Brown; Barbara A. Scott;
Emily McCutchan; Mary Ann Scott; Indiana Bell; Elizabeth Brown; Sarah
A. Goss; Indiana Scott; Louisiana Scott.[29]
Chapel Hill Christian Church
continued the very best legacies and traditions of the log cabin Mt.
Eden Christian Church! Soon a school was built at the corner of
Chapel Hill Road and Navilleton Road, across from Chapel Hill Church.
The church and school helped develop a prominent community as Mt. Eden
had been from 1828 to 1866. Historically, Chapel Hill has claimed Mt.
Eden as its “mother” church (obviously before Mt. Eden joined the
RLDS). The Mt. Eden branch of
the RLDS was disorganized in
1907.
In reviewing the membership
records of Mt. Eden RLDS,
Nelson Scott noted that John and Anna (Reasor) Scott’s descendants
were most loyal to the Latter Day Saints faith. Some of their
descendants moved to Laomi, Decatur County, Iowa, a community of many
RLDS members and the first
location of the RLDS Herald
Publishing House established by W. W. Blair. Others moved to nearby
communities in Missouri. The descendants of Moses and Elizabeth
(Shindler) Scott and Harmon and Margaret (Reasor) Scott were the ones
who wanted to build a new church facility and helped establish Chapel
Hill Christian Church.
During the Mt. Eden
RLDS years, the congregation
became very controversial. It had many detractors because of the
claims of Joseph Smith, Jr., the Latter Day Saints founder. He was
murdered on June 27, 1844, Nauvoo, Illinois. After his death, there
was a splintering among the Latter Day Saints and W.W. Blair who
organized Mt. Eden was a minister of the largest splintered group
which by 1860 was known as the Reorganized Latter Day Saints. Yet,
both Latter Day Saints and the splintered Reorganized Latter Day
Saints held utmost respect for their founder, Joseph Smith’s
divination, his visits with angels, his claim to have found ancient
writings, and revelations that led to novel doctrinal, social, and
economic ideas. Some refused to use medicine and doctors as a source
of healing and some practiced polygamy. Since some of the Scott
family belonged to the RLDS
branch at Mt. Eden, all other Scotts who did not belong could not
escape the public scrutiny and out-cry against the Mormon (Latter Day
Saints) faith.
The Scotts were portrayed harshly
and rudely in the book, History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their
Counties.[30]
The copyright date of this book suggested that the author conducted
interviews around 1880-81 before its publication and all interviewed
had clear, sharp remembrances of what happened at Mt. Eden. There was
a lot of pain and disgust among the Scotts at Chapel Hill over what
their relatives had done in becoming Mormons.
This author of the History of
the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties sketched Mt. Eden as a
peculiar, untypical, weird congregation which was always in trouble
due to the way some of its members practiced their faith. But, that
sketch failed to represent Mt. Eden Church before 1866 when the
congregation had able leaders who served with a trusted faith and were
good role models. The faith practiced at Mt. Eden before 1866 was not
unhealthy and abnormal. Any assessment of churches in northern Floyd
County and the southern high lands of Wood Township Clark County by
historians would surely note that Mt. Eden was the largest Protestant
congregation from 1830 to 1866. In
the years before the conversion of the few Scotts who became
RLDS members, Mt. Eden was an
effective congregation serving a large area of conscientious,
intelligent Christian people.
West of the shallow banks of
Thompson Creek, a soft flowing creek, stood the hewed log building of
Mt. Eden situated on a plateau of prominence for a church and
cemetery. Between the creek and the church plateau was the Mt. Eden
Road, named for the church. Not many roads in pioneer days got named
for a church! But, this was no incidental road beside an unimportant
church. Mt. Eden Road was a route for commerce and travel. There
were a variety of saw-mills and grain mills in the vicinity. The
hewed log building was larger than most people have envisioned. It
was packed with people. There was likely a large fireplace for winter
heat, a large wooden pulpit, wooden pews with no backs, a wooden cross
on a table, and a large wooden offering tray which may not have been
passed among worshippers but placed on a stand at the church entrance
for gifts to be given. There were no hymnals but if people had a
Bible, they brought it with them in case they would sing one of the
Psalms. Otherwise, a song leader sang words and the people echoed the
song leader’s voice. Favorite songs were sung when memorized and
sometimes played on string instruments as fiddles, guitars, banjos and
ukulele. The men sat on one side of the sanctuary and the women and
children on the other side. Lots of people could not read yet. But,
reading was not a requirement for being a Christian. Mt. Eden
baptized many believers at nearby creeks where the best requirements
for being a confessing Christian was to “see” with your heart and
imitate others whom you “saw” living the faith well. When this church
celebrated Holy Communion, the blood of the Lord Jesus was passed in a
common wine cup and the bread was broken individually from a common
loaf! Children, orphans, and adult widows along with
prosperous and poor families practiced a unifying faith from
1828 through 1866!
ELIZABETH SHINDLER, MOSES SCOTT’S WIFE
The father and
grandfather of Elizabeth Shindler have been researched by Mrs. Clay W.
York (Ethel Fay). Her research has been placed in Appendix F
of this document. Ethel Fay York and Nelson Scott discovered several
sources in Shelby County, Kentucky regarding the marriage of Moses and
Elizabeth Shindler. Following their marriage, they resided with
George Shindler, Elizabeth’s father, per the 1810 Census as entered
below. Their first two children -- America and Malinda -- were born
in Kentucky.
Federal Census
Records. George Chindler household, 1810 U.S. census,
Shelby County, Kentucky, page 204; National Archives micro publication
M252; Roll 8: George Chindler, 2 males of 10 under 16; 1 male
of 16 under 26; 1 male 45 +; 1 female under 10; 1 female of 10 under
16; 3 females of 16 under 26; and 2 other free persons were in this
family, ages not given, probably slaves who were free. No slaves were
reported other than possibly the two free persons.
George’s wife was deceased because the
oldest females were 16-26 years of age. This census has
indicated that his newly wed daughter, Elizabeth, and son-in-law,
Moses Scott, were living in George’s home. Since this census occurred
following their 23 May 1810 marriage, the categories for Moses’ age of
21, and Elizabeth’s age of 19 correlated well with her father’s home
dwellers.
Federal Census
Records. Moses Scott household, 1820 U.S. census,
Floyd County, Indiana, Greenville Township, page 155 but also stamped
page 147; National Archives micro publication M33; Roll 13: Moses
Scott, 1 male of 26 under 45; 1 female of 26 under 45; 5 females,
under 10. (Census correlated perfectly with his five daughters born
before 1820.) The Shelby County, Kentucky Tax Records listed Moses
Scott next to his father, Robert Scott from 1812 to 1814. Moses Scott
was not found in the 1820 Shelby County, Kentucky Census. 1830 U.S.
census, Floyd County, Indiana, No Township Listed, page 357;
National Archives micropublication M19; Roll 28: Moses Scott,
1 male under 5; 1 male of 5 under 10, 1 male of 40 under 50; 3 females
of 5 under 10; 2 females of 10 under 15; 1 female of 40 under 50.
1840 U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, Lafayette Township, page
150, handwritten page 291; National Archives micropublication M704;
Roll 79: Moses Scott, 1 male of 5 under 10; 2 males of 15
under 20; 1 male of 50 under 60; 1 female under 5; 1 female of 10
under 15; 3 females of 20 under 30; 1 female of 40 under 50. 1850
U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, population schedule, Lafayette
township, 7 September 1860, no post office listed, stamped pages 369
and 370, dwelling 146, family 144; National Archives micropublication
M432, roll 145: Elizabeth Scott, age 60, born Virginia;
Elizabeth Scott, age 21, born Indiana; Moses Scott, age 18, farmer,
born Indiana, attends school; Mary Scott, age 14, born Indiana,
attends school. 1860 U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana,
population schedule, Lafayette township, 3 July 1860, Floyds Knobs
Post Office, pages 263 and 264, dwelling 645, family 631; National
Archives micropublication M653, roll 257: Moses Scott, age 28, born
Indiana; America Scott, age 24, born Indiana; Robert Scott, age 11
months, born Indiana; Elizabeth Scott, age 69, born Virginia;
Mary Scott, age 24, born Indiana. (This was Moses Scott, Jr., youngest
son of deceased Moses Scott. Elizabeth Scott was the mother of Moses
Scott, Jr., and Mary Scott was his sister.)
After the death of Moses Scott, 3
May 1850, his children and wife inherited all of his property. Moses
Scott died without a Will, so everyone in the family cooperated to
comply with an equitable settlement. Records in the Floyd County
Courthouse were not specific about Moses Scott’s estate or
arrangements made by his family. All surviving children and the
spouses of deceased children sold 40 acres, 15 January 1851, North ½,
South ½, Northeast ¼, Section 25, Township 1 South, Range 5 East, to
Moses Scott, Jr., the youngest son[31].
This property was the home place for Moses and Elizabeth Scott.
Elizabeth resided with her son, Moses Scott, Jr., until her death, 19
September 1864, Scottsville, Floyd County, Indiana. Moses &
Elizabeth’s home was built near the home of Moses’ brother, John
Scott, in the Scottsville community according to the census records.
In the 1860s, the home was next to Alexander McCutchan’s family, the
John Scott family, and the Vardeman Scott family.
Other property that Moses and
Elizabeth Scott sold to their children prior to their deaths is noted
below.
Ten children were born to Moses and
Elizabeth (Shindler) Scott:
America Scott,
born 1811, Shelby County, Kentucky
Malinda Scott, born
9 March 1815, Shelby County, Kentucky
Catherine Scott,
born 15 October 1816, Lafayette Township, Scottsville, Floyd County,
Indiana
Indiana Scott (twin)
born 11 August 1819, Lafayette Township, Scottsville, Floyd County,
Indiana
Louisiana Scott, (twin) born 11 August 1819, Lafayette Township,
Scottsville, Floyd County, Indiana
George S. (Shindler) Scott, born 27 July 1822, Lafayette
Township, Scottsville, Floyd County, Indiana
Robert G. Scott, born 26 February 1825, Lafayette Township,
Scottsville, Floyd County, Indiana
Elizabeth Scott,
born about 1829, Lafayette Township, Scottsville, Floyd County,
Indiana
Moses Scott, Jr.,
born 4 February 1833 Lafayette Township, Scottsville, Floyd County,
Indiana
Mary Jane Scott,
born 1836, Lafayette Township, Scottsville, Floyd County, Indiana
THIRD GENERATION
CHILDREN OF MOSES AND ELIZABETH (SHINDLER) SCOTT
AMERICA SCOTT and husband William S. “Billy”
McCutchan
America Scott was born 1811,
Shelby County, Kentucky, baptized Mt. Eden Church, Greenville
Township, Floyd County, Indiana; died about 1882, Lafayette Township,
Floyd County, Indiana, burial
[32] Chapel Hill Cemetery, Greenville
Township, Floyd County, Indiana; married (according to the birth of
their first child), about 1830, Lafayette Township, William S.
McCutchan, born 1808, East Tennessee, baptized Mt. Eden Church,
Greenville Township, died shortly after the 1880 census was taken,
Lafayette Township, burial Chapel Hill Cemetery, Greenville Township,
Floyd County, Indiana.
William S. McCutchan’s parents
were Samuel McCutchan, Sr., and Frances (maiden name not known).
Federal Census Records:
1840 U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, Lafayette Township, page
287, National Archives micropublication M704, roll 79, image 148:
William McCutchan, Jr., 1 male of 5 under 10; 1 male of 30 under
40; 1 female under 5; 1 female of 20 under 30: 1850 U.S. census,
Floyd County, Indiana, population schedule, Lafayette Township, Floyds
Knobs Post Office, page 367, dwelling 111, family 111; National
Archives micropublication M432, roll 145: William McCutchan,
age 42, farmer, born Tenn.; America, age 39, born Kentucky, children:
Samuel McCutchan, age 18, born Indiana; Elizabeth McCutchan, age 16,
born Indiana; Frances M. “Fanny” McCutchan, age 9, born Indiana;
non-relative, William W. Stacy, age 27, born Indiana, carpenter.[33]
1860 U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, population schedule,
Lafayette Township, Floyds Knobs Post Office, page 282, dwelling 785,
family 757; National Archives micropublication M653, roll 257:
William McCutchan, age 52, $2,000 real estate assessment, born
East Tennessee; America McCutchan, age 49, born Kentucky; Samuel
McCutchan, age 28, farmer, born Indiana; Elizabeth McCutchan, age 26,
born Indiana; Frances McCutchan (female) age 18, born Indiana. 1870
U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, population schedule, Lafayette
township, Floyds Knobs Post Office, page 201b, dwelling 140, family
136; National Archives micropublication M593, roll 313: William S.
McCutchen, age 62, farmer, born Tennessee; wife, America McCutchen,
age 59, keeping house, born Kentucky; daughter, Elizabeth McCutchen,
age 32, at home, born Indiana; Genette E. Ramey, age 8, born Indiana.
1880 U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, population schedule,
Lafayette Township, enumeration district [ED]
68, supervisor’s district [SD] 2, sheet 29, no dwelling number was
listed, family 257; National Archives micropublication T9, roll 277,
stamped page 195: William McCutchen, age 73, farmer, born
Tennessee, both parents born Virginia; America McCutchen, age 69,
wife, born Kentucky, both parents born Kentucky; Elizabeth McCutchen,
daughter, age 45, at home, born Indiana, father born Tennessee, mother
born Kentucky; granddaughter, Genette Ramey, age 18, boarder, born
Indiana, parents born Indiana.
William and America (Scott)
McCutchan resided on 80 acres, East ½, Section 30, Township 1 South,
Range 6 East, Lafayette Township, Floyd County, Indiana.[34]
According to family oral history from Clark Scott, William and America
McCutchan’s home burned. They were in great need at one time.
William McCutchan’s brother,
Samuel McCutchan, Jr., married Malinda Scott, the sister of William’s
wife, America Scott. The McCutchan brothers, William and Samuel, Jr.,
married Scott sisters, America and Malinda.
The father of William and Samuel
McCutchan, Jr., was Samuel S. McCutchan, Sr.[35]
He may have been, but nothing is definite, the youngest brother of
James McCutchan, Sr., and William McCutchan, the earliest known
McCutchans who settled in Floyd County, Indiana. Samuel S. McCutchan,
Sr., probably had a sister who resided with him and his wife,
Frances. That sister was also named, Frances McCutchan, and she never
married.
Federal Census Records: 1820 U.S. census, Floyd County,
Indiana, Greenville Township, page 155 but also stamped page 147;
National Archives micropublication M33; Roll 13: Samuel McCutchan
(with an “S” written after his surname), 1 male under 10, (son
Samuel); 1 male of 10 under 15 (son William), 1 male of 45 or above
(Samuel himself); 1 female under 10; 1 female of 45 or above,
(Frances) 1840 U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, Lafayette
Township, page 287, National Archives micropublication M704, roll 79,
image 148: Samuel McCutchon, 1 male of 60 under 70; 1 female of
50 under 60; 1 female of 60 under 70. 1850 U.S. census, Floyd
County, Indiana, population schedule, Lafayette Township, Floyds Knobs
Post Office, page 367, dwelling 109, family 109; National Archives
micropublication M432, roll 145: Samuel McCutchan, Jr.‚ age
40‚ born Tennessee; Malinda‚ age 38, born Kentucky; William J.
McCutchan, age 13; Elizabeth McCutchan, age 10; Ellen J. McCutchan,
age 9; George W. McCutchan, age 7; Samuel S. McCutchan, age 4;
Louisiana McCutchan, age 4 months; (unknown relatives listed were
Sarah A. Scott, age 16, born Kentucky, and Fanny McCutchan‚ age 69,
born Virginia). In the 1850 census, Samuel and Malinda were living
with Samuel McCutchan, Sr., and his wife, Frances. Samuel McCutchan‚
Sr. was age 78 and wife Frances was age 78, too! Both were born in
Virginia. Their marriage date of October 9, 1804, Augusta County,
Virginia, was documented in “First Marriage Records of Augusta
County Virginia, 1785-1803.” It is assumed that they were buried
in Mt. Eden Cemetery though no grave markers have been found. Fanny
McCutchan‚ age 69, born Virginia, was the sister of Samuel McCutchan,
Sr. She was also listed in the 1840 Census with them.
Historical Background on the McCutchans
[36]
“The McCutchans first settled on
the Wabash River very early in the present or possibly at the close of
the last century, but subsequently moved to this county (Floyd) and
purchased land on Big Indian Creek a little in advance of other
settlers of that time. The family was originally from Ireland, but
settled in Virginia and subsequently in Tennessee before removing to
Indiana. A deed now in possession of Samuel McCutchan shows that the
family were residents of Augusta county, Virginia, it being given by
Governor Brooke, of that State, and dated October 1, 1782. Part of
the family moved to Tennessee, where they remained but a short time.
James moved from Virginia with his
family directly to the Wabash country, where he lived a short time and
was engaged in the Indian war of that period, being in the battle of
Tippecanoe. Having had six horses stolen from him by the Indians, and
being otherwise harassed by the savages, his family and himself being
in continual danger of massacre, he left that country and determined
to return to Virginia; but reaching his brother William, who had
settled meanwhile in this county (Floyd), he remained with him and
subsequently purchased land and became a permanent resident. He
taught school for years and was probably the first teacher on Indian
creek within the limits of this township (Lafayette Township, Floyd
County, Indiana).”
In the 1820 Floyd County, Indiana
Census, Samuel S. McCutchan, Sr., was residing near his brother, James
McCutchan whose census name was followed with the initials “S” or “J”.
1820 U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, Greenville Township,
page 155 but also stamped page 147; National Archives micropublication
M33; Roll 13: James McCutchan, “S” or “J”, 1 male of 26 under 45 and
1 female of 26 under 45, no children; however, he had a son named
“Samuel McCutchan” who resided next to James’ brother, Samuel S.
McCutchan, Sr., and adjacent to Moses Scott. Also, William McCutchan,
brother of James and Samuel S. McCutchan, Sr., resided nearby.
1820 U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, Greenville Township, page
153 but also stamped page 145; National Archives micropublication M33;
Roll 13: William McLuhtain (miss-spelling for McCutchan), 4 males of
10 under 15; 1 male of 16 under 25; 1 male of 45 or above; 1 female of
16 under 25; 1 female of 26 under 45.
America Scott and William
McCutchan were the parents of 3 children.
1. Samuel
J. (James) McCutchan was born 26 February 1832, near Scottsville,
Lafayette Township, Floyd County, Indiana
2.
Elizabeth L. McCutchan, nicknamed “Betty”, was born January, 1833,
near Scottsville, Lafayette Township, Floyd County, Indiana
3.
Frances M. McCutchan, nicknamed “Fannie”, was born 11 December 1842,
near Scottsville, Lafayette Township, Floyd County, Indiana
CHILDREN
OF WILLIAM AND AMERICA SCOTT MCCUTCHAN
1.
Samuel James McCutchan was
born 26 February 1832, near Scottsville, Lafayette Township, Floyd
County, Indiana, died 28 April 1904, near Navilleton, Greenville
Township, Floyd County, Indiana, buried Chapel Hill Cemetery, marriage
date not available, married Elizabeth Collins‚ born 4 September 1842,[37]
Greenville Township, Floyd County, Indiana, northeast of Galena,
Indiana, Northwest ¼, Section 11, Township 2 South, Range 5 East, on
house north of Big Indian Creek, died 30 June 1914, buried Chapel Hill
Cemetery, Greenville Township, Floyd County, Indiana. She was
daughter of Francis (Frank) Collins and Sarah “Sallie” Mosier.
Federal Census
Records. 1870 Floyd County, Lafayette Township, Indiana, 19 July,
Post Office Floyds Knobs, page 211b:[38]
Samuel J. McCutchen, 38, farmer, born Indiana; Elizabeth
McCutchen, 28, keeping house, born Indiana; William F. McCutchen, 8,
born Indiana; Mary L. McCutchen, 6, born Indiana; America J. McCutchen,
4, born Indiana; Elizabeth McCutchen, 6/12, born Indiana.
Samuel McCutchan
household, 1880 U.S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, population
schedule, Lafayette Township, enumeration district [ED]
68, supervisor’s district [SD] 2, sheet 29, no dwelling number was
listed, family 258; National Archives micropublication T9, roll 277,
stamped page 195: Samuel McCutchen, age 48, farmer, born
Indiana, father born Tennessee, mother born Indiana; Elizabeth
McCutchen, age 38, wife, born Indiana, father both North Carolina,
mother born Indiana; William McCutchen, age 17, son, born Indiana,
parents born Indiana; Mary McCutchen, age 14, daughter, born Indiana,
parents born Indiana; Annie McCutchen, age 10, daughter, born Indiana,
parents born Indiana; George McCutchen, age 8, son, born Indiana,
parents born Indiana, Francis McCutchen, age 6, son, born Indiana,
parents born Indiana; Edward McCutchen, age 3, son, born Indiana,
parents born Indiana: 1900 U. S. census, Floyd County,
Indiana, population schedule, Lafayette Township, enumeration district
[ED] 57, supervisor’s district
[SD] 3, sheet 11b, dwelling 211; family 214; National Archives
micropublication T623, roll 371, page 55: Samuel McCutchon, age
68, farmer, born February, 1832, Indiana, father born Tennessee,
mother born Kentucky, married for 37 years; wife, Elizabeth McCutchon,
age 58, born September, 1841, Indiana, married for 37 years, mother of
9 children and 8 children are presently living, father born Virginia,
mother born North Carolina; son, Clarence McCutchon, age 16, born
December, 1883, Indiana, parents born Indiana; adjacent to Samuel and
Elizabeth (Collins) McCutchan was Samuel’s sister, Elizabeth McCutchan.
Elizabeth (Collins)
McCutchan was the sister of John F. Collins. He married Nellie L.
Watkins. John and Nellie (Watkins) Collins had no children in their
marriage. After John Collins died, his wife, upon instructions from
her husband, John, included John’s nieces and nephews in her Will.
That Will named the children of Samuel and Elizabeth McCutchan as
heirs and as the nieces and nephews of Nellie Collin’s deceased
husband, they were named as follows: William
F. McCutchan; Mary L. (McCutchan)
Michels; Anna (McCutchan) Owen;
George L. McCutchan; Tena (McCutchan)
Rufing; Etta (McCutchan) Michels; Charles J. McCutchan;
J. Clarence McCutchan. Their parents
were Elizabeth Collins and Samuel J. McCutchan. (Were Elizabeth
McCutchan, born about 1870, as claimed above; and Francis McCutchan
(male son) born about 1874 as claimed above; and Edward McCutchan born
about 1877 as claimed above in Census; why were these not named in the
Will of Nellie L. Watkins?). Tena, Etta, Charles J., and J. Clarence
McCutchan were born between the years of the 1880 and 1900 censuses.
Those in blue format were confirmed by the census records above.
One son of Samuel J. and Elizabeth
(Collins) McCutchan was James Clarence McCutchan, born 15 December
1883, Floyd County, married 25 September 1904, Floyd County, Lealah
Maude Wade, born 12 March 1887, Floyd County, Indiana. James Clarence
went by the name of Clarence McCutchan. He and Lealah were the
parents of twelve children born on their farm east of the Chapel Hill
Christian Church. James Clarence McCutchan told his daughter, Beulah
Mildred “Midge” (McCutchan) Hoke, that his parents early in their
marriage lived on a farm near Atkins Chapel before they bought the
farm east and adjacent to Chapel Hill Christian Church. This
recollection of family folk lore correlated well with the location of
the farm owned by Samuel J.’s father, William S. McCutchan. Samuel J.
McCutchan’s farm next to Chapel Hill Christian Church had been
previously owned by Henry Todd.
The following were
children of James Clarence and Lealah Maude (Wade) McCutchan:[39]
1 Haven Clarence
McCutchan, born 6 April 1905, married (1) Georgia Nicholson‚ and
following her death, married (2) Velma Kirkham.
2 Lowell Garven
McCutchan, born 13 August 1906, married Berneice Sharp.
3 Stanley Orester
McCutchan, born 6 April 1909, married Edna Brodrick.
4 Ernest Wade
McCutchan, born 29 August 1910, married Georgia Compton.
5 Olin Olaf McCutchan,
born 18 July 1912, married Faith Batt.
6 Dorothy Mae
McCutchan, born 18 April 1914, married (1) Robert Leffler now
deceased, married (2) Irvin Lee Condra.
7 Gerald Marvin
McCutchan, born 18 May 1916, died 6 November 1957, married Margaret
White.
8 Robert McCutchan,
born 16 November 1917, married Ione Marciar. Robert McCutchan owned a
large farm at Shelton, Illinois when upon retirement around 1995 sold
the farm. His only son became a truck driver delivering toxic waste
materials and resided in Springfield, Illinois.
9 Beulah Mildred
“Midge” McCutchan, born 18 May 1919, married John P. Hoke. Midge
McCutchan and Virginia Scott were close childhood friends in the
Chapel Hill Community. Their parents were neighbors. They remained
lifelong friends even though Midge and John Hoke moved from the Borden
community, resided in Florida and in a suburbs south of Birmingham,
Alabama. After Midge’s husband, John Hoke, died early in 2002, Midge
visited with Virginia Scott at Galena, Indiana in April, 2002, and
they were like two young kids reminiscing the wonderful years of their
marriages, friends, and families. In 2002, Midge and Virginia were
the same age of 83.
10 Irvin Howard
McCutchan, born 6 December 1920, married Fern Confer. Irvin resided
before his death in Monticello, Indiana. He once owned a very nice
home on historic Shaefer Lake. He had three sons, one of whom was
named Alan McCutchan who was a genius type person that traveled Europe
on a bicycle and worked as a teacher in Greece where he was stranded
during the winter months. He also was in New York City in September,
2001, heard the first plane that was controlled by terrorists crash
into the World Trade Center, went to the top of the building of his
employment where there was a lounge for employees and saw the second
plane of the terrorists fly overhead and also crash into the World
Trade Center. Alan reported to his father that it made his hair stand
up on his head. Alan’s genius allowed him to work with computers or
whatever he could do to save enough money so he could bicycle
leisurely on long trips. One bicycle trip began in Seattle Washington
where he bicycled through California and around the southern states
and into Florida. He always sent money to his father to deposit in
the bank and never withdrew it. Alan was also in Moscow bicycling and
was picked up by the police and forced to leave Russia. Alan
especially loved Scotland and Wales. He believed that the McCutchan
Family had roots in Wales and according to his aunt Midge Hoke,
desired to return to Wales and write a book on the McCutchan Welsh
ancestry.
11 Noel Clifton
McCutchan, born 6 August 1924, married Ida Mae Grant.
12 Alvin Lee
McCutchan, born 30 November 1930, married Kathleen Bowling.
CONTINUING
CHILDREN
OF WILLIAM AND AMERICA SCOTT MCCUTCHAN
2.
Elizabeth L. McCutchan,
nicknamed “Betty”, was born January, 1833, near Scottsville, Lafayette
Township, Floyd County, Indiana, death date was after the June 21,
1900 census, buried Chapel Hill Cemetery, Greenville Township, Floyd
County, Indiana, never married.[40]
Elizabeth L. McCutchan
household, 1900 U. S. census, Floyd County, Indiana, population
schedule, Lafayette Township, enumeration district [ED]
57, supervisor’s district [SD] 3, sheet 11b, dwelling 212; family 215;
National Archives micropublication T623, roll 371, page 55:
Elizabeth McCutchon, age 66, farmer, born January, 1833, Indiana,
father born Tennessee, mother born Kentucky, single, never married; 2nd
cousin, Edward Ramey, age 11, born October, 1889, Indiana, parents
born Indiana; 2nd cousin, Julia Ramey, age 6, born
November, 1893, Indiana, parents born Indiana; Elizabeth McCutchan was
residing next to her brother’s home, Samuel and Elizabeth (Collins)
McCutchan. Elizabeth was residing in the home place of her parents.
CONTINUING
CHILDREN
OF WILLIAM AND AMERICA SCOTT MCCUTCHAN
3.
Frances M. McCutchan,
nicknamed “Fannie”, was born 11 December 1842, near Scottsville,
Lafayette Township, Floyd County, Indiana, died 21 October 1894, Wood
Township‚ Clark County, Indiana, buried Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Wood
Township, married by Rev. James Scott, 5 January 1864, Wood Township,
George Washington Bell, born 20 April 1838, Wood Township, died 1
December 1913, age 75 years, 8 months, 1 day, Wood Township, burial
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. George was the son of Elias and Jemima
(McKinley) Bell. Jemima was daughter of James McKinley 1st.
Frances M. McCutchan and
George W. Bell were the parents 6 children.[41]
1.
Infant daughter Bell,
born 27 October 1864, Wood Township, died 27 October 1864, Wood
Township, buried Pleasant Ridge Cemeter
2.
Charles Henry Bell,
nickname Bucky, was born 3 October 1866, Wood Township, died 20
January 1944, age 77 years‚ buried Pleasant Ridge Cemetery‚ never
married. Charles was deaf mute. He was educated at the Indiana
School for the deaf. He was a very skilled carpenter building homes
on the Navilleton and Louis Smith Road. He also gave much of his time
for the upkeep of the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. Bucky Bell resided in
Borden, Indiana.
3.
William John Bell
was born 21 January 1868, Wood Township, died 10 August 1937, age 69,
burial Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, married 7 April 1901, Lula Belle
Brown, born 6 January 1870, Fredericksburg, Indiana, died 2 April
1942, age 72, Henryville, Indiana, burial Pleasant Ridge Cemetery.
William and Lula
Bell were the parents of four children.
i. Ida Devore Bell,
born 21 December 1902, Wood Township, died 9 October 1995 while
residing at Henryville, Clark County, Indiana, burial, Wiley Chapel M.
E. Church Cemetery, Clark County, Indiana, married 3 June 1923, M.
Ralph Dietrich, born 17 August 1902, died 18 July 1991, burial Wiley
Chapel M. E. Church Cemetery, Clark County, Indiana.
Ida and Ralph were
the parents of three children.
a. Doris Bell
Dietrich, born 30 May 1924, Henryville, Clark County, Indiana, married
Henryville United Methodist Church, 21 April 1946, Paul Leslie Braun,
born 11 June 1925, son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Braun, Louisville,
Kentucky.
b. John Larry
Dietrich, born 13 June 1929, married (1) Virginia Vogt, who died in
1996. John and Virginia were the parents of Allen Michael Dietrich,
born 13 May 1953, Orlando, Florida, married Robin Williams who died on
22 December 1997. John Larry Dietrich married (2) Virginia Bates and
they were the parents of Tigre Ann Dietrich, born 27 September 1963.
Tigre Ann Dietrich was the mother of Tevin Dietrich, born 18 July
1991. John Larry Dietrich married (3) Bertha Josephine Murphy, 6
December 1969.
c. Lowell William
Dietrich, born 14 March 1939, died 30 January 1968, burial Wiley
Chapel M. E. Church Cemetery, Clark County, Indiana.
ii. William Bruce
Bell was born 18 September 1904, Wood Township, died 3 January 1997,
Heritage House Nursing Home, Salem, Indiana, burial Pleasant Ridge
Cemetery. He was a journalist and musician. He wrote three books:
Gone are the days; Memories of Pleasant Ridge; and, A Little Dab of
Color. William was a graduate of DePauw University, Greencastle,
Indiana. He never married.
iii. Charles Hubert
Bell was born 13 December 1907, Wood Township, married 2 April 1932,
Phyllis Fordyce, born 5 February 1911, died 10 May 1978, burial
Martinsburg Cemetery, Martinsburg, Washington County, Indiana.
Phyllis was the daughter of Frederick and Rosa Miller Fordyce.
Charles and Phyllis
were the parents of four daughters.
a. Sharon Bell,
born 24 January 1936, Clark County, died 16 December 1990, burial
Crown Hill Cemetery, Salem, Indiana, married (1) Frank Ball, married
(2) Roger Bundy, married (3) Carl Worley, 26 June 1953. Sharon and
Carl were the parents of Carla Worley, born 5 November 1955; Mark Alan
Worley, born 21 May 1958; Kevin Worley, born 28 December 1962; Marla
Worley, born 2 March 1965.
b. Sheryl Rae Bell
was born 3 April 1938, Clark County, Indiana, married 16 February
1957, Albert Leroy Davis who were the parents of Sherry Lea Davis and
Gary Ray Davis.
c. Karen Lou Bell
was born 11 October 1944, Clark County, Indiana, married Max
Worley, 1962, and
they were the parents of Tamara Sue Worley and Janice Renee Worley, a
teacher.
d. Jacquetta Bell
was born 2 April 1949, Clark County, Indiana, married 29 July 1967,
Boyd W. Wright, born 6 March 1947, and they were the parents of
Jonathan Wright, born 10 January 1981.
iv. Murray Wilson
Bell was born 15 February 1911, Wood Township, died 7 May 1989, age 78
years, burial Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, married June, 1942, Sarah
Johnson, born 10 April 1907, died 24 May 1985. Murray resided in
Pekin and Charlestown, Indiana. He was a retired employee of the
Charlestown Army Depot and the Borden Cabinet Company, and Veteran of
WW
II.
CONTINUING
CHILDREN OF FRANCES M.
MCCUTCHAN AND GEORGE W. BELL
4.
Elias Jefferson Bell,
nicknamed “Jeff”, was born 2 December 1871, Wood Township, died 2
December 1936, burial Chapel Hill Cemetery, Greenville Township, Floyd
County, Indiana, married 20 December 1893, Lillie Elizabeth Norris,
born 7 January 1875, Martinsburg, Indiana, died 11 October 1955, home
in Borden, Indiana, burial Chapel Hill Cemetery. Lillie was the
daughter of William Norris and Phoebe Jane Roberts. Jeff farmed the
property of his deceased parents which was known as the old home place
with fertile rolling soil, orchards, and cattle. Jeff was an Elder at
Chapel Hill Christian Church. Lillie was very active in the church as
well as the community helping families when a new baby arrived. They
were the maternal grandparents of Paul E. Coffman who now owns the old
home farm place.
Jeff and Lillie were
the parents of three children.
1. Maude Bell was
born 12 October 1894, Wood Township, died 13 August 1935, burial
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, married 10 February 1914, Lawrence Earl
Temple, born 9 May 1891, died 19 September 1973, Clark County, burial
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. Maude and Lawrence were the parents of 12
children.
2. Edgar Ray Bell
was born 13 December 1895, Wood Township, died 19 November 1960,
Borden, Indiana, burial Chapel Hill Cemetery, married 21 July 1916,
Clara Hunt, born 12 February 1897, Clark County, died 24 July 1966,
DeWitt, Arkansas, burial DeWitt, Arkansas.
Edgar and Clara were
the parents of 5 children.
3. Grace Edna Bell
was born 13 August 1901, Wood Township, died 27 July 1992, Lincoln
Hills Nursing Home, New Albany, Indiana, burial Chapel Hill Cemetery,
Greenville Township, Floyd County, Indiana, married 16 September 1920,
Jeffersonville, Indiana, John Ethil Coffman, born 31 January 1898,
Greenville Township, Floyd County, Indiana, died 9 May 1987, Clark
County, Indiana, burial Chapel Hill Cemetery. John Coffman had a twin
brother, James Cecil, and in later years of life, phoned one another
every day.
Cecil died before
John, and they both died from strokes. Paul Coffman, their son, told
this story. When they were young and dated they would double date and
trade partners without the knowledge of the girls. Uncle Cecil told
this story about John. John, when he was courting Grace, would ask to
drive Grace home from church, but her mother, Lillie, would always
insist on coming along. One Sunday, on the way home, in the buggy,
and at the top of a steep hill called the McCutchan Hill, John let the
horse run as fast as it wanted to do down the hill. It turned out to
be a fast and scary ride as Lillie informed him that she would never
ride with him again. Just what he wanted! Grace and John bought the
home place from Lillie after Elias Jefferson Bell died and John and
Grace lived there the rest of their life. During the depression, John
worked at other jobs besides farming. He often talked about helping
to build Highway 60 and how he and his team of horses made $2.00 a
day. Sometimes he worked on township roads, with his team of horses,
hauling creek gravel and made $1.50 each day. Later he worked for the
Indiana Arsenal at Charlestown, Indiana. He could remember when the
first airplanes came to be; he took a good look and went back to
work. He had a keen knowledge and was able to adjust to the period in
which he lived. He was very good in mathematics and could add faster
in his head than most people could with a calculator.
John retired from
the Indiana Highway Sign Department and from farming.
John and Grace
Coffman were always very kind and open people. While growing up at
Chapel Hill Church, they were highly admired by Nelson Scott. One
quality especially noticed was their interest in kids and they would
answer questions which growing kids had about everything at church or
elsewhere in life.
Grace Edna Bell’s
parents once owned the Borden Hotel during Grace’s childhood years.
When she was 15 or 16 years old, her parents returned back to the farm
and Grace helped her family with farm work. She loved tending to her
flowers, plants, and garden. During the depression, and later, she
worked side-by-side with her husband, John, growing vegetable crops
and strawberries which they marketed for cash money. They had dairy
cattle, hogs and chickens, all this to be taken care of every day.
During World War I, Grace and her mother and other neighbor women
sewed shirts and caps for the army. She would collect them and
deliver them by horse and buggy to New Albany, Indiana.
Grace had a lovely
alto voice and sang in the church choir. During the young and mid
years of her life, you could find a lavish meal at their home most
every Sunday. She was a very fine cook. Crowds of relatives and
friends would be round the table and stayed the afternoon to play
cards and visit. Those were great memories of John and Grace
Coffman’s family times. They loved their children and grandchildren
and Chapel Hill Church where John was a Deacon. Grace was very active
in the women’s fellowship group and sang devotedly in the choir. They
were outstanding church members in supporting everything at Chapel
Hill.
Grace Bell and John Coffman were the
parents of 4 children.
i.
Roberta Louise Coffman,
born 15 January 1922, Wood Township, died 14 May 1922, burial Chapel
Hill Cemetery.
ii.
Avis Colleen Coffman was
born 12 March 1924, Wood Township, died 23 November 1989, while
residing in Greenville Township, Floyd County, Indiana, burial Chapel
Hill Cemetery, married and later divorced Albert Franklin Ginkins,
born 31 October 1920, died 16 May 1977, burial Chapel Hill Cemetery.
Albert Ginkins’ parents were Charles Ginkins and Rosie Lea Bailey.
Albert Ginkins was a construction worker.
Avis and Albert were
the parents of 9 children.
1. Gary Lamar
Ginkins was born 7 April 1942, Wood Township, served in Korean and
Vietnam wars, married and divorced Virginia Truex. They were the
parents of Leslie Ginkins, born 17 December 1966, and Amy Marie
Ginkins, born 20 June 1971, married Robert Matthew Light. Gary Lamar
Ginkins also married Kathy Hart and they a daughter, Kristin Colleen
Ginkins, born 30 December 1985.
2. Sharon Ruth
Ginkins was born 11 April 1943, Wood Township, married and divorced
George D. Canary. They were the parents of Troi Lynn and Toni Lea
Canary.
3. Edna Rose
Ginkins, born 8 March 1946, died May, 1946, Greenville, Indiana,
burial Chapel Hill Cemetery
4. Rebecca Sue
Ginkins was born 12 April 1947, married and divorced Larry Frank
McCoy. They were the parents of Larry Joseph McCoy, born 3 December
1966, and Kristen Renee McCoy, born 24 January 1971.
5. Patricia A.
Ginkins was born 28 January 1949, married and divorced Glen Rawlings.
They were the parents of Michelle Lei Rawlings and Glenn Wilson
Rawlings, Jr.
6. Larry Lee
Ginkins was born 3 September 1953, married and divorced Brenda Draughn.
They were the parents of Paul Albert Ginkins and Angela Lee Ginkins.
7. Terry Albert
Ginkins was born 20 May 1956, married Carol Sue Flora. They were the
parents of Whitney Lynn Ginkins and Cody Aaron Ginkins.
8. Jerry Allen
Ginkins was born 11 October 1957. Jerry and Karen Merritt were the
parents of Joven Taylor Ginkins, born 2 April 1992.
9. Barry Lynn
Ginkins was born 6 January 1962. Barry and Lisa Logan Duke were the
parents of Benjamin Albert Logan Ginkins, born 4 July 1996.
CONTINUING:
CHILDREN OF GRACE BELL AND JOHN
COFFMAN
iii.
John E. Coffman, Jr., was
born 11 November 1927, Wood Township, married 21 November 1959,
Juanita Voignier, born 27 June 1929. John was a graduate of the
American College of Surgeons. He was a physician and worked as a
podiatrist, New Albany, Indiana. Juanita was the daughter of Ernest
Voignier and Katherine Worrall.
iv. Paul E. Coffman
was born 15 May 1933, Wood Township, baptized Chapel Hill Christian
Church, married Patricia Ann “Pat” Canary, born 10 October 1935,
Shoals, Martin County, Indiana, baptized Chapel Hill Christian
Church. Pat was the daughter of Cecil George Canary and Rachel Eva
Stewart.
Paul has been a
farmer and retired from the Ford Motor Company, Louisville, Kentucky,
where he was Supervisor of Ford’s Water Plant.
During retirement,
Paul and Pat were avid genealogists who helped compile valuable
records for family history. Their books and research data were placed
in Floyd and Clark county libraries. They enjoyed traveling in order
to uncover “lost” family connections and discover family history from
branches of their family. Some of their published works include the
following: family history - The Bells of Pleasant Ridge (1760 -
2000); The McKinley Clan (1763 - 1999); Diary of Clara Bell, A Visit
to Grandma and Grandpa Scott, (From August 28, 1900 to January 28,
1901); compilations of public records in Clark and Floyd County
Libraries: Littell Funeral Home Record Books 1 & 2 (1906 - 1956);
Mt. Eden Cemetery; Chapel Hill Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana;
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery 1995.
Paul and Pat were
parents of 4 children.
i. Paul E. Coffman,
Jr., nickname “Gene” was born 5 October 1955, baptized Chapel Hill
Christian Church, married 7 August 1978, Louisville, Kentucky, Sue
Ellen Wolph, born 22 October 1955. Sue Ellen was the daughter of Paul
James Wolph and Carol Joyce. Paul obtained a doctorate degree from
the University of Texas and worked in research and development for the
Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan. Paul and Sue Ellen were the
parents of Stephany Sue Coffman-Wright, born 30 May 1981, Austin,
Texas.
ii. Tara Lynn
Coffman was born 7 April 1957, baptized Chapel Hill Christian Church,
married 20 July 1979, Robert Joseph Koerber, born 4 July 1957,
christened St. Joseph Catholic Church, Clark County, Indiana. Robert
was the son of Edward Joseph Koerber and Mary Elizabeth Graf. Tara and
Robert were the parents of 2 children.
Michael Joseph
Koerber, born 16 April 1980
Brian Paul Koerber,
born 26 October 1981
iii. Susan Elaine
Coffman was born 27 August 1959, baptized Chapel Hill Christian
Church, married Hollis Stephen Chepa, born 16 July 1958, Minnesota.
Hollis was the son of Hollis Rodney Chepa and Barbara Jean Buckeye.
Susan and Hollis were the parents of two children.
Rachael Chepa, born
26 December 1985
Paul Steven Chepa,
born 27 December 1987
iv. Tracy Ann
Coffman was born 7 December 1961, baptized Chapel Hill Christian
Church, married 1 May 1981, David A. Book, born 15 October 1959, Floyd
County, Indiana, christened St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Floyds Knobs,
Indiana.
Tracy was a deacon
at Chapel Hill. She and David were active in Christian Education
Ministries helping with Vacation Bible School and the annual Harvest
Home Coming Booth. Tracy graduated Summa Cum Laude from Spaulding
University, Louisville, Kentucky. She was an elementary school
teacher and librarian for Charlestown Public Library. Tracy and David
were the parents of 2 children.
Brittany Ann Book,
born 11 January 1987, christened at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Floyds
Knobs, Indiana and baptized at Chapel Hill Christian Church. Brittany
attended Purdue University.
David Elias Book,
born 26 November 1996, christened St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Floyds
Knobs, Indiana
CONTINUING
CHILDREN OF FRANCES M.
MCCUTCHAN AND GEORGE W. BELL
5.
Ida Frances Bell
was born 13 June 1873, Wood Township, Clark County, Indiana, died 29
May 1947, Monticello, Indiana, burial Riverview Cemetery, Monticello,
Indiana, married 21 May 1895, Gilbert Herbert Gillespie, nickname
Bert, born 31 October 1871, White County, Guernsey, Indiana, died 3
April 1944, burial Riverview Cemetery, Monticello, Indiana. Ida and
Bert were both deaf mutes and met while they were going to a school
for the deaf at Indianapolis, Indiana. They were the parents of 4
children.
i. Frank Andrew
Gillespie, born 4 April 1896, Indianapolis, Indiana, died 30 November
1927, married Lucille V. Barrett
ii. Arthur Gillespie,
nickname “Dick”, born 3 May 1900, Alexandria, Indiana, died November
1965
iii. Edna Gillespie,
born 24 July 1902, Alexandria, Indiana, died 20 October 1980,
Rossville, Indiana, burial Riverview Cemetery, Monticello, Indiana,
married 1923, Ruskin Grant Carter, born 4 July 1899, died, October,
1986, burial Riverview Cemetery, Monticello, Indiana. Edna and Ruskin
were the parents of Arlene
Carter and Richard Dean Carter, both born Monticello, Indiana.
iv. Edith Gillespie
was born 9 September 1911, died 5 April 1987, married 1933, Jack H.
Moyer, born 24 December 1895, died August, 1977, Pulaski County, Star
City, Indiana. They did not have children.
CONTINUING
CHILDREN OF FRANCES M.
MCCUTCHAN AND GEORGE W. BELL
6.
George Thomas Bell
was born 10 June 1879, Wood Township, Clark County, Indiana, died
December 1962, Clark County, burial Hillcrest Section, Kraft-Graceland
Cemetery, New Albany, Indiana, married (1) 18 April 1905, Floyd
County, Indiana, Carrie Scott, born 1882, Floyd County, Indiana, died
28 September 1913, Floyd County, Indiana, at the age of 30, burial
Chapel Hill Cemetery. Carrie was the daughter of Walter J. Scott and
Elizabeth “Libbie” Atkins. Carrie had an operation for gallstones at
Sellersburg, Indiana and later died from infection due to the
surgery. George and Carrie resided near Chapel Hill, Greenville
Township. Carrie and George were the parents of 1 child.
Walter Scott Bell,
born 29 March 1911, Floyd County, Indiana, died 21 September 1980, New
Albany, Indiana, burial Blue River Cemetery, DePauw, Indiana, married
Agnes Burrell, born 20 June 1898, died 30 June 1987, burial Blue River
Cemetery, DePauw, Indiana.
Information from
George Lynn Bell: Walter was 31 years old when he was drafted and
went to Fort Lewis. He was a heavy equipment operator for the Army
Air Force. He went to Alaska for 44 months and while there, he lost a
finger from the results of freezing. At one time, he trained to be a
prize fighter. Late in life he married Agnes Burrell, a woman who had
two grown children. He bought a farm in Floyd County and they
farmed. Walter also worked at the Louisville Cement Company, Clark
County, Speed, Indiana. Walter Scott Bell’s stepsons from his
marriage to Agnes Burrell were Russell Ham of Indianapolis, Indiana
and Elmer Ham of Nineveh, Indiana.
George Thomas Bell
married (2) 28 November 1915, Henrietta A. Homberger, born 23 October
1890, died 10 November 1960, burial Kraft-Graceland Cemetery, New
Albany, Indiana. Henrietta was the daughter of Henry Homberger and
Mary Dietrich. George and Henrietta were the parents of George Lynn
Bell.
George Lynn Bell was
born 19 March 1926, Clark County, Indiana, married 11 August 1954,
Louella Thomas, born 26 February, Grandview, Indiana, died 29 March
1996, burial Kaft - Graceland Cemetery, New Albany, Indiana. Louella
was a retired teacher working for 37 years for the Old Louisville
Public Schools, member of the Sellersburg United Methodist Church,
Louisville Farm Bureau of Clarksville, a graduate of Georgetown
University and University of Louisville.
CONTINUING:
CHILDREN OF MOSES
AND ELIZABETH (SHINDLER) SCOTT
MALINDA SCOTT and husband Samuel S. McCutchan,
Jr.
Malinda Scott was born 9 March
1815, Shelby County, Kentucky, died 16 February 1860, Lafayette
Township, Floyd County, Indiana, baptized Mt. Eden Church, buried Mt.
Eden Cemetery,[42]
Greenville Township, Floyd County, Indiana, married by Rev. John T.
Littell, 18 April 1836, Lafayette Township, Samuel S. McCutchan, Jr.,
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