PETER SCHOLL, WHOSE SON, Jesse Bryan Scholl, married Jesse Elledge's eldest daughter, Charity Elledge, was one
of the most colorful characters in early Kentucky history. A slave-holder and a hard master, we have seen how he
quarreled with his younger brother, Abraham, who upbraided him for his treatment of his slaves, the quarrel contributing
to Abraham's resolve to leave Kentucky and settle in Pike county, Illinois, which he did in the spring of 1825.
Peter Scholl was a soldier of the Revolution, as was his brother, Pike county Abraham. He was with Daniel Boone
in the old Indian wars and at the famous battle of the Blue Licks, on the Licking river in Kentucky, August 19,
1782, when Daniel Boone's son Israel fell in battle and 60 Kentucky women were widowed. Scholl was with General
Andrew Lewis at the great battle with the tribes at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1774, one of the greatest
battles ever fought between the whites and the Indians. General Lewis, at the head of this expedition, was a descendant
of pioneer John Lewis, a forebear of Samuel Lewis who died at Pleasant Hill in 1832. Scholl was a lieutenant under
Daniel Boone with General George Rogers Clark in 1782.
John Scholl gave the following information about his father, Peter Scholl, to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, then secretary
of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, in 1868:
"He (Peter Scholl) wore short breeches, long silk stockings and queued his hair; wore large knee and shoe
buckles, long vest and coat. He memorialized Congress for a pension, but got none since he was in good circumstances.
He was a lieutenant under Daniel Boone with George R. Clark."
Peter Scholl was a son of William Scholl and Leah Morgan. Note: Some descendants have claimed that William Scholl
was twice married, that his first wife was a Van Meter who was the mother of Peter Scholl and his brother Joseph.
Scholl genealogies mention only Leah Morgan as a wife of William Scholl. William Scholl was a son of Jacob Scholl
and Jane Morgan, the latter a sister of Sarah Morgan who married Squire Boone and became the mother of 11, among
them Daniel, Edward, Jonathan and the second Squire, who have figured prominently in this history. William Scholl,
the father of Peter Scholl, was therefore a first cousin of Edward Boone, the father of Mary and Charity Boone,
the former of whom became the wife of Peter.
Peter Scholl was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia September 15, 1754. In 1779, when Peter was 25, the
Scholl family journeyed out to Boonesborough on the Kentucky river, under the guidance of Daniel Boone. In the
party traveled Edward Boone and his family, with 22 pack horses, besides those the family rode. Abraham Lincoln,
grandfather of the President, also went out to Kentucky with this party. With Edward Boone and his wife on the
journey were their six children, Charity, Jane, Mary, Sarah, George and Joseph Boone. Charity was already married,
her husband, Francis Elledge, being with her on the journey. Mary Boone, Charity's sister, was then about 15. On
the wild Wilderness Road, cut by Boone in 1779, Peter Scholl and young Mary Boone came to care for one another
and in Boone's Station in Kentucky in 1782 they were married, the groom being then 28 and the bride 18.
Edward Boone Scholl, founder of Booneville (now Perry), a son of Peter Scholl and Mary Boone and named for his
grandfather, Edward Boone, writing from Griggsville to Dr. Lyman C. Draper of Madison, Wisconsin, August 25, 1854,
said of his father and mother:
"My father was Peter Scholl, who came to Kentucky with the Boone family. He married Mary Boone, Edward's daughter.
He served two years in the old war (the Revolution) as a regular soldier for himself, and six months for another
man. I have seen his discharge, with a $5.00 Continental bill, receipted on the back, which he gave for a bushel
of salt, which was all he ever got for his services. When the first Pension law was passed he was the only man
out of 32 who applied that could show he had been in the service but got nothing owing to the provision and died
before there was any amendment. Peter Scholl died September 11, 1821, aged 67 lacking four days. My mother (Mary
Boone) had 14 children.
"Peter Scholl was made lieutenant (Ky.) under Daniel Boone when he went to drive the Indians from the Miami,
Ohio, and was one of the company that agreed to go there 50 years later if alive to the same place but died just
10 years before." Note: The drive against the Indians on the Miami was in 1782 and Peter Scholl therefore
died 11 years before the expiration of the half-century agreed upon for a reunion.
Peter Scholl and his brother John were both in the War of Independence and John died of smallpox while stationed
at Point Pleasant, West Virginia (then Virginia). He had married a Miss Morris and they had two children. Peter
Scholl was with John at Point Pleasant and had the smallpox the same time. Recovering, he went home and married
Mary Boone. "They had 14 children," wrote Boone Scholl, "six born on Marble Creek, west part of
Fayette county, Kentucky. In 1792 they moved to the east part of said county. There they had eight more on Georges
Fork of Stoner." This last settlement was on a 1400 acre tract which was shared by William Scholl's three
sons, Peter, Joseph and Abraham. This tract had been settled and preempted by Daniel Boone, who later assigned
it to his cousin, William Scholl. A. C. Barrow, a Scholl descendant, who owned and lived on a part of this tract,
wrote in 1920: "A portion of the house Peter Scholl lived in is still standing and is just across the hill
from where I live."
The William Scholl and Edward Boone families, setting out over the Wilderness Road in 1779, reached Daniel Boone's
fort on the Kentucky river on Christmas Day. The Scholls were from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia; the Boones
from the Yadkin, in North Carolina. At Boonesborough, on Christmas Day, 1779, the families ate their last bread
until grain was raised in 1780. That winter was a bitter one in Kentucky, the coldest on record. In the spring,
members of the two families went to Louisville, then called Clarksville, to buy bread.
Arriving at Boonesborough on Christmas Day, after eating their last bread, the Scholl and Boone families crossed
the Kentucky river the same day and traveled about four miles. Then Daniel Boone killed a young buffalo cow and
the party camped to cook the fine beef. Next morning the awful winter, memorable in Kentucky annals, howled around
them. Snow covered the ground. For protection against the weather, the little party set to work erecting half-fitted
camps made of boards and forked sticks. During that cold winter, the camp lived on buffalo, deer and turkeys. After
the snow went off in March, cabins were erected and the camp stockaded, with port holes for resisting Indian attack.
This stockade became known as Boone's Station. Here, where the company had camped to cook the buffalo cow Daniel
Boone had killed, Peter Scholl and Mary Boone were married in 1782. Here also their first child, William Scholl,
was born in 1783. This first son of Mary Boone in 1806 married his first cousin, Martha Jemima Elledge, a daughter
of Charity Boone.
Peter Scholl's brother, Joseph Scholl, second-born of William Scholl's children, married Daniel Boone's daughter,
Levina, about 1785; they settled in the eastern part of Clark county, Kentucky. They had eight children, Jesse
Boone, Septimus, Marcus, Daniel Boone, Celia, Marcia, Leah and Joseph Scholl, Jr. Jesse Boone and Septimus married
Elizabeth and Sallie Miller, sisters, daughters of Joseph Miller and cousins of David (known as Gumbo) Miller,
an early dweller on Sand Creek in southeast Pike county. Joseph Junior's first wife was Rebecca Van Meter, a cousin
of the early Pike county Chenoweths, whose mother was Mary Van Meter. The elder Joseph Scholl died January 15,
1833, on the headwaters of Stoner, in Clark county, Kentucky. He had been born in the Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia,
in January 1755. His wife, Levina Boone, born March 23, 1766, died on the waters of Stoner, in Clark county, Kentucky,
April 6, 1802, aged 36 years and 15 days.
Marcus (Marquis), Joseph, Jr., Jesse Boone and Septimus Scholl, sons of Joseph Scholl and Levina Boone, settled
in Callaway county, Missouri, and are buried there. Septimus at one time was living near Independence, Missouri.
His account of the capture of Jemima Boone (Daniel's daughter) and two of the Callaway girls by the Indians in
1776 has been related in a previous chapter.
Peter Scholl and Mary Boone had 14 children, namely, William, Martha, John, Lydia Ann, Joseph, Dudley, Malinda,
Jesse Bryan, Peter Morgan, Edward Boone, Dudley (the second), Mary, Louisa and Charity Scholl. Of these 14 children,
13 grew to maturity. The first Dudley died in infancy.
William Scholl, named for his grandfather Scholl, was born in Boone's Station, on Boone's Creek, in Kentucky, in
1783, being the first born of Peter Scholl's and Mary Boone's children. William Scholl on May 14, 1806, in Kentucky,
married his first cousin, Martha Jemima Elledge, a daughter of Francis Elledge and Charity Boone, the latter a
sister of Mary Boone. This Elledge daughter is referred to as Jemima Elledge in the Elledge records and as Martha
Elledge in the Scholl family records. She probably bore both names, she having signed a transfer in early Morgan
county as "Martha J. Scholl."
William Scholl and Martha Elledge had 11 children, several of whom were born in what is now Scott county, where
William Scholl and his wife lived in the 1820s, belonging to the early Scholl and Elledge settlement in that part
of the Sangamo country. Among the sons were William Boone Scholl, Peter Scholl, Joseph Scholl and Edward A. Scholl.
Among the daughters were Elizabeth (called Betsy), who married a Withers; Mary (Polly), who married Henry Woodward,
becoming the mother of Catherine Woodward, who married Lieut. W. N. Shibley, early Pittsfield and Griggsville carriage
maker, at one time associated in Pittsfield with the late Henry F. McKnight; Levisa, who married Clifton Bell (Beall),
relative of Mrs. William Elledge and Mrs. Boone Elledge; and Telitha Scholl, a twin of Levisa, who died in Pike
county, unmarried, and is buried in McCord cemetery at Perry. Three of the Scholl children died young.
William Boone Scholl, son of William Scholl and Martha Jemima Elledge, was born near Louisville, Kentucky, April
14, 1813. In 1834 he married Elnore Shores, a daughter of Thomas Shores and a sister of Abigail Shores, who on
November 19, 1840, in Pike county, with Rev. Jesse Elledge officiating, married pioneer John McClain, a kinsman
of Boone Elledge's first wife and original owner of the land on Hinman Prairie on which Boone Elledge settled in
1836. John McClain was born in Adair county, Kentucky, in 1807, and died at Griggsville December 9, 1893, aged
86. His wife, Abigail Shores, born in Kentucky September 18, 1820, died at Griggsville April 13, 1903, aged 82.
John and Abigail McClain are buried at Griggsville. Many others of the McClain family were buried in the grounds
adjoining old Hinman Chapel. John McClain settled near the northwest corner of Griggsville township in 1830, when
there was not a fence between his place and Atlas, then the only town in the county.
William Boone Scholl and Elnore Shores, following their marriage in Kentucky, first settled in the Boone ans Elledge
settlement near Laconia, Indiana. Later they followed the Scholl and Elledge migration to what is now Scott county,
Illinois, and still later came to Griggsville where they resided many years.
Late in life they left Griggsville, going to Salina, Kansas, where they died and are buried. While living at Griggsville,
William B. Scholl owned or was in charge of a tow boat on the Illinois river, called "Peggy," with which
he engaged in the river trade. Later on he apprenticed to a blacksmith in Griggsville and learned that trade. He
was descended from Edward Boone on both his father's and mother's side, his father being a grandson and his mother
a granddaughter of Edward.
The family of William Boone Scholl and Elnore Shores comprised nine children, three boys and six girls. The sons
died in infancy; the daughters were:
Mary M. Scholl, who married Captain Gilbert G. Lowe in Pike county, November 13, 1851; Susan A. Scholl, who married
Alexander Shultz; Huldah J. Scholl who married John B. Clinton; Nancy E. Scholl, who married the Rev. Milo Powers;
Tamar A. Scholl, who married Thomas H. Derrington; and Elizabeth T. Scholl, who married Cyrus S. Conrad. All of
the girls except Mary M. were married after the family left Pike county in the early 1850s. Otto A. Wilmarth of
Washington, D. C., who has contributed some interesting data on Scholl family history, is a grandson of Susan A.
Scholl and Alexander Shultz mentioned above.
Peter Scholl, son of William Scholl and Martha Jemima Elledge, living in what is now Scott county in the pioneer
period. Scott county was then a part of old Morgan. Peter, named for his grandfather Scholl in Kentucky, was married
in old Morgan county August 21, 1828, his bride being Elizabeth Cowhick, daughter of Thomas Cowhick, who had come
up in this region with Alexander Beall in the closing days of the Illinois Territory. Peter Scholl owned 80 acres
of land in Section 11 in T. 13 N. and R. 13 W. in what is now Scott county. He and his wife deeded this land on
February 17, 1834 to William Cumley and they then migrated to Missouri. Of them there is no further record.
Joseph Scholl, another son of William Scholl and Martha Elledge, came to what is now Scott county in the 1820s
and in the 1830s and early 1840s abided in what is now Pleasant Vale township in Pike county. Here it was that
his aunt, Malinda Scholl Elledge, lived after marriage to Joseph Jackson in 1832. Malinda's first husband had been
Edward Elledge, a brother of Joseph's mother. The records are silent as to Joseph after 1842 at which time he went
to Missouri.
Edward A. Scholl, a brother of Joseph, Peter and William B., was in Scott county in 1829, being recorded in Morgan
county records as having bought property at the sale of Edward Elledge's effects on October 8 that year, Edward
Elledge having died. Edward Scholl also went to Missouri and there all trace of him is lost.
Mary Scholl (called also Polly), a daughter of William Scholl and Martha Elledge, married Henry Woodward in Kentucky
and they came in the late 1820s to present Scott county. Both the Scholl and Elledge families intermarried with
the Kentucky Woodwards, numerous of the Woodwards belonging to the history of Pike county. Isaac Woodward, a brother
of Henry, in 1840 in Pike county married Adeline Elledge, daughter of Preacher Jesse Elledge; and William H. Elledge,
in Pike county in 1851, married Elizabeth J. Woodward.
Henry Woodward and Mary Scholl had a daughter Catherine, born in Kentucky, who in Scott county on April 27, 1848
married William N. Shibley, a son of John Shibley and Eliza Backstone. The father was born in New York in May,
1795, a son of Hollanders who were among the early settlers of New York. The mother was a native of Fincastle,
Virginia.
William N. Shibley was born in Charlottesville, Culpepper county, Virginia, February 26, 1825. In 1833 he came
with his parents to St. Louis, remaining there until 1845 when the family removed to Scott county, Illinois, the
father purchasing a large tract of land there. The parents spent their latter days at Winchester.
William N. was the eldest of seven children. He was educated in the schools of St. Louis, and in 1841 became an
apprentice to the wagon and carriage-making business. After learning his trade, in 1845 he made an overland trip
to Mexico, in company with a number of traders. Their route lay from Independence, Missouri, to Durango, Mexico,
by way of Santa Fe. In May, 1846, he returned to St. Louis and thence proceeded to Winchester where he enlisted
for the Mexican War in the 1st Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, commanded by the gallant Colonel John J. Hardin.
They were immediately sent to the Mexican frontier, and participated in the battle of Buena Vista. He was mustered
out in June, 1847, receiving an honorable discharge. The following April he married, at Winchester, Catherine Woodward,
the granddaughter of William Scholl and Martha Elledge, and they had a family of three children.
On the breaking out of the Rebellion, Mr. Shibley enlisted in the 14th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, commanded
by John M. Palmer. He was made lieutenant of Company K. He saw active service for nearly three years, participating
in the battles of Pittsburgh Landing and the siege of Corinth. Receiving an honorable discharge at the termination
of his service, he returned to Scott county and then located in Griggsville, in Pike county, where he became associated
with the Griggsville Manufacturing Company.
Later Mr. Shibley brought his family to Pittsfield and here he was long engaged in the manufacture of wagons and
carriages. He was associated with the late Henry McKnight in the manufacturing business, the shop being located
where is now the residence of the late Sam Knox on East Fayette street.
Mr. Shibley in the course of his adventurous career fought many Indians on the plains of Texas and when he was
a resident of Pittsfield he still had in his possession some of the scalps taken in those thrilling days of border
warfare.
John S. Shibley, a son of Lieutenant Shibley and Catherine Woodward, married Mary (Mae) D. Gibbs at Pittsfield,
November 16, 1871, she a daughter of Charles F. Gibbs and Elizabeth Scholl of Griggsville. (Elizabeth was the youngest
daughter of pioneer Abraham Scholl, a younger brother of Kentucky Peter.) John H. Shibley was for a long time engaged
in the restaurant business in Pittsfield where the Pike Cafe is. He and Elizabeth Scholl had three children, all
of whom died young.
Catherine Woodward Shibley died in Pittsfield May 10, 1904, aged 74. She is buried in the West cemetery at Pittsfield,
where also stands a Civil War marker to her husband, Lieutenant William N. Shibley.
William Scholl and his wife, Martha Elledge, leaving Scott county, Illinois, settled in Adair county, Missouri,
and both died and are buried there. William Scholl died in August, 1846, according to one letter written by his
brother, Edward Boone Scholl of Griggsville, now among the Draper Manuscripts at Madison, Wisconsin. In another
letter written by Boone Scholl, the date of William's death is given as 1849.