Descendants of James Scott (1758-1811)
and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott (1758-1835)

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Originally compiled by Paulina (Scott) Provine in 1895
from various records and her own recollections -
Updated 1999

FIRST GENERATION

JAMES SCOTT was born May 6, 1758 in Virginia. He was of Irish descent. He married Nancy Cassidy in March 1781 in Virginia. Nancy was born May 3, 1758 in Virginia. She was an orphan and was raised in the family of Dr. Rice, a Presbyterian minister, or of Seceder faith. James and Nancy lived in Virginia, where their three oldest children were born. About 1785 or 1786  they moved to South Carolina, where the rest of their large family was born. Early in the 19^th century they moved to Adair County, Kentucky, where the children grew to adulthood (all except Samuel, who died in his childhood).
            James died in Kentucky on July 31, 1811. In the last years of her life, Nancy lived in Kentucky with her eldest daughter, Jane, and her family. Nancy died of cholera in her 77^th year, on July 9, 1835, in Kentucky. A few years after her mother’s death, Jane and her family moved to Illinois, leaving no one of this family in Kentucky, others having already settled in either Missouri or Illinois.
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 SECOND GENERATION

1.

            THOMAS SCOTT (1),  son of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born December 31, 1781 in Virginia. He married in Kentucky, but we don’t know to whom. They had four sons and three daughters. They moved to Indiana, then to Belleville, Illinois. His wife died, he married again and lived in Belleville until he died at a good old age.

 2.

             JOHN SCOTT (1), son of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born February 7, 1783 in Virginia. He married Nancy Moore in Greene County, Kentucky August 25, 1814. Nancy was a sister to both Jane (Moore) Speeres (who married John’s brother Elijah) and John Moore (who married John’s sister Phebe). John and Nancy moved to Sangamon County (in a part that was later called Menard County), Illinois in 1835.
            John died June 25, 1849 (age 67) in Illinois. Nancy died April 7, 1866 (age 74) in Illinois.
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3.

            JANE SCOTT (1), daughter of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born in Virginia on June 15, 1784. On February 28, 1810 she married Robert E. Ewing in Adair County, Kentucky. They went to Illinois some time around 1850 and settled in Menard County where they both died.
            Jane died on December 24, 1858, and Robert died on September 3, 1862.
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 5.

            MARTIN SCOTT (1), son of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born in South Carolina on February 9, 1788. He was married in Cumberland County, Kentucky on December 24, 1811 to Sarah (Sallie) Williams. She was born in Virginia on October 23, 1791, the daughter of Garrett and Sally (Lanier) Williams. In 1809, at about age 18, Sarah and her brother, Lemuel Williams, went from Virginia to Kentucky on horseback, a journey of about 500 miles. After Martin and Sarah married, they lived in Adair County, Kentucky on the farm the Scott family had built when they came from South Carolina. Though the family owned slaves, Martin early on became inbued with the idea that it was wrong to hold slaves. This made him very unpopular with his people. In 1835 (the same year his mother had died), he took his wife and children to McDonough County, Illinois.
            This being fairly new country, they suffered much sorrow and hardship for some years. Their son, Elbert, died not long after coming to Illinois on August 27, 1835 at age 22. Added to the trials of making a home on the frontier, came the scourge of smallpox. Martin’s wife, Sarah, and their two children Sarah and Lemuel were away from home when Martin and his son William (age 17) were stricken with the dreadful disease. Daughter Paulina (age 21) nursed her father and brother with only her young brother, Robert (age 13), to help her. Paulina told her children in later years of that terrible time – how the neighbors, none living very near, used to come to a point about 40 yards from the house, and she would go to perhaps 50 feet of them and call to them what supplies she needed. Later, the supplies would be delivered at that point, and she and Robert would go out and get them after everyone was gone. Martin, age 49, died of the disease on July 22, 1837, only two years after coming to Illinois.. The sons, Walton (age 15) and Robert had to make the plain coffin in which their father was buried. William recovered, but died less than three years later (age 20) at the home of his sister Paulina.
            Sarah (Williams) Scott, left with a family of half-grown children, had a hard struggle. She told Paulina that she (Paulina) could spin and weave for her board, and if she had time beyond that she could use the loom to earn money for herself. The older sons worked at whatever they could get to do that would help the family fortunes. Also, they educated themselves as well as they could. Robert, who learned the carpenter’s trade, later taught school during the winter months in Fulton County, Illinois. The mother, anxious to give the youngest son, Lemuel, what advantage she could, did much spinning and weaving for other families and was able to send Lemuel to school in Canton, Fulton County, Illinois, an unusual advantage to a boy in those days of pioneering. He, too, became a school teacher for a time.
            Sarah (Williams) Scott died November 25, 1846 (age 55) in Illinois. She, Martin, Elbert and William are all buried in the Camp Creek Cemetery, McDonough County, Illinois. The 1840 tax list of 1940 lists Sarah Scott, widow of Martin; owned no real estate; had $175.00 worth of horses, $129.00 cattle, $10.00 clocks and watches, $75.00 wagons and $500.00 in other property; taxes were $4.45.
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 6.

            WILLIAM SCOTT (1), son of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born in South Carolina on May 6, 1789. He became a minister in connection with the Presbyterian church. He rode on horseback from Kentucky to Princeton, New Jersey in 1819 to study Theology. After he was ordained a minister and settled as pastor of a church, he married Sarah Ann Tate of Greene County, Kentucky, a woman well suited to be a minister’s wife. They were married May 3, 1822 in Greene County, Kentucky. They lived in Kentucky. For his work as a minister, he as well as his family were greatly beloved of the people. By 50 years of age, he had become enfeebled by ill health and had lost all hope of recovery. So he moved his family to Fulton County, Missouri; this was so that after his death, which he felt was near, his family would be able to live near relatives and enjoy their companionship and support.
            William died on July 29, 1839, only a few days after they reached their destination. Sarah also died in Missouri.
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 7.

            REUBEN SCOTT (1), son of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born in South Carolina on October 29, 1791. He married Jane Gilmore on February 12, 1818 in Adair County, Kentucky. They had one daughter and three sons. Jane died about 1825 in Kentucky.
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 In 1826, Reuben married a second time (wife unknown). The next year they moved to Callaway County, Missouri where two daughters were born. Reuben was an elder in the Presbyterian church. He and his second wife did not live to old age, and it is unknown when they died. They both died in Missouri.
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8.

            SARAH SCOTT (1), daughter of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born in South Carolina on June 14, 1793. She married Francis Rayburn on May 29, 1817 in Adair County, Kentucky. They had two children. 
            Sarah died in Kentucky in April 1823. 
            Children:

            Francis Rayburn married again to Sarah Hillis on 11 Feb 1824 in Adair County, Kentucky and the family moved to Illinois. One of the two children, a daughter, soon died. The family later moved to Iowa.

9.

            ELIJAH SCOTT (1), son of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born in South Carolina on April 13, 1795. In Kentucky he married Mrs. Jane (Moore) Speeres of Greene County, Kentucky. She was a sister to both Nancy Moore (who married Elijah’s brother John) and John Moore (who married Elijah’s sister Phebe). While in Kentucky they had a son named William, and a daughter. The family moved to Sangamon County, Illinois when the country was new. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church.
            Elijah died in December 1882 in Cass County, Illinois. Jane died in Peoria, Illinois.
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 10.

            STEPHEN SCOTT (1), son of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born in South Carolina on May 27, 1797. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church and was a tailor by trade. On April 22, 1822 in Wayne County, Kentucky he married Mrs. Margaret (Crockett) Montgomery, who was reputed to be a woman of excellent qualities. Margaret was born about 1798 in Kentucky, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Carter) Crockett. She was said to be a distant relative of Davy Crockett. Margaret had previously been married to Smith Montgomery (married 25 Jan 1815) with whom she had a daughter, whom Stephen fully adopted. Together, Stephen and Margaret had one son. The family moved to Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri. Mr. Scott espoused the cause of the rebellion during the Civil War. The family all died in Mexico, Missouri.

 11.

            PHEBE SCOTT (1), daughter of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born on January 22, 1799 in South Carolina. On March 9, 1820, in Adair County, Kentucky, she was married to John Moore. He was a brother to both Nancy Moore (who married Phebe’s brother John) and Jane (Moore) Speeres (who married Phebe’s brother Elijah). They lived in Greene County Kentucky a very few years before moving to Sangamon County, Illinois with their little son, James. They made a farm on the prairie. Settlers were, as a rule, remote from each other. John and Phebe lived about 20 miles from Springfield, Illinois, which was a small village then. Mr. Moore and one of his brothers were in the Blackhawk war. John and Phebe raised a family of six sons and four daughters. Four of the sons died in early manhood and were all married but one.
            Phebe died on August 7, 1868 in Illinois.
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 THIRD GENERATION

 12.

            OLIVER T. SCOTT (2), son of John and Nancy (Moore) Scott, was born February 3, 1816 in Kentucky. On March 12, 1844 in Morgan County, Illinois he married Margaret Montgomery, of Morgan County, Illinois. She was born about 1818 in Kentucky. He lived some years on the old homestead, then sold out and moved to Monticello, Illinois where he died. 
            Oliver died November 17, 1894 in Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois. His unmarried sister, Margaret, an invalid who died at age 80, lived with Oliver’s two unmarried daughters in Monticello. Oliver’s wife, Margaret, died February 2, 1901 in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois.
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16. 

            WILLIAMSON EWING (2), son of Robert E. and Jane (Scott) Ewing, was born March 5, 1813 in Adair County, Kentucky. On October 20, 1836 he married Mary Polly H. Wilson in Greene County, Kentucky. Some time after their children were born (all in Kentucky), they moved to Missouri.
            Williamson died on August 21, 1881. Polly died February 24, 1887. Both died in Menard County, Illinois and are buried in the Indian Point Cemetery, Menard County, Illinois.
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24.

            PAULINA SCOTT (2), daughter of Martin and Sarah (Williams) Scott, was born May 23, 1816 in Adair County, Kentucky. Her family moved to McDonough County, Illinois in 1835, when she was 19. Two years later, when she was 21, her father and William, her brother, were stricken with smallpox during a time her mother, sister, and brother Lemuel were away from home. Paulina was alone to care for her father and brother, along with a younger brother, Robert who was 13 at the time. Paulina told her children in later years of that terrible time – how the neighbors, none living very near, used to come to a point about 40 yards from the house, and she would go to perhaps 50 feet of them and call to them what supplies she needed. Later, the supplies would be delivered at that point, and she and Robert would go out and get them after everyone was gone. Her father died of the disease. Her brother, William, survived, but died less than three years later in 1840 in Paulina and Williams’s (her husband) home. After her father died, life was very difficult for the family. Paulina had to spin and weave for her board, and if she had time beyond that she could use the loom to earn money for herself.
            Paulina married William Provine on November 22, 1838 in Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. He had the same birth date as Paulina, being born on May 23, 1816 in Clark County, Indiana. His parents were William and Mary Polly (Buchanan) Provine (see Provine History for further information on the Provines and on William and Paulina’s descendants).
            Together they had 11 children, 9 of which reached adulthood.
            Paulina’s obituary sheds some light on the kind of person she was: 

“For more than 62 years, hand in hand with William Provine, her husband, she trod the way of life and left him bewildered and astonished that he could not pass the portals of death with her. It had grown to be an old man’s dream. They were born on the same day of the same year of our Lord. They grew to maturity and united with the same church the same day and had not met one another as yet. But their stars meant them for one another, and no sooner had they met than they knew that life had no meaning for them apart, so they joined hands and fortunes and looked forward to the long flight together to where souls meet beyond the blue in the presence of God. In the number of The Interior for January 26, 1899, there was an account of the celebration of their 60^th wedding anniversary together with a picture of the handsome old couple. Mrs. Provine was a strong, courageous woman with a character framed on the five points of Calvinism. Her Bible, her paper and her church literature were the elements which made food for her meditation. She was 85 years young when she died. She had the experience of a woman and the heart of a girl to the end. She was a charter member of the Presbyterian church of Vermont, Illinois, a member of the Missionary society, and an interested and helpful member of the village life. Nearly all of their life has been spent in Vermont, Illinois.” 

            Paulina died on July 17, 1901 in Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. William Provine died on April 24, 1903 in Vermont, Illinois.
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 27.

            WALTON K. SCOTT (2), son of Martin and Sarah (Williams) Scott, was born on January 4, 1822 in Adair County, Kentucky. On 26 October 1848, in McDonough County, Illinois, he married Sarah Jane Stickell. They lived in McDonough County some years, then moved to Knox County, Illinois, living near Abingdon. They later moved into Abingdon to give their large family of daughters better educational advantages.
            Walton died in Abingdon on November 16, 1889, age 68 years. Sarah died on March 21, 1895, age 66 years.
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 28.

            ROBERT B. M. SCOTT (2), son of Martin and Sarah (Williams) Scott, was born on March 27, 1824 in Adair County, Kentucky. On April 11, 1850, in McDonough County, Illinois, he married Angelina Kennedy. She was born February 4, 1827 in Logan, Montgomery, Kentucky. They lived in Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois until 1867, then moved to Bushnell, Illinois. They had four children, three sons and one daughter. One son, Frank, died after they moved to Bushnell. The two remaining sons, Milton and William, were always engaged in railroad work.
            Robert Scott died March 20, 1913 in Bushnell.
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 29.

SARAH MARTIN SCOTT (2), daughter of Martin and Sarah (Williams) Scott, was born June 5, 1826 in Adair County, Kentucky. She married first, on 25 March 1841 in McDonough County, Illinois, John McCamie, whom she later divorced.
            She married, second, Lewis Winans in October 1849 in Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. Lewis Winans was born in Seneca Falls, New York on April 21, 1826, the son of Mahlon and Elizabeth (Moore) Winans. His family came to Illinois in 1831. Ten years later, at the age of 15, he left home to do for himself. He first learned the wagon-making trade; he quit this and engaged as a clerk in a dry goods store in Canton, Illinois. In 1846 he embarked in business in Vermont, Illinois in connection with H. R. Smith. Mr. Smith was killed shortly afterward and the business was settled up, and Mr. Winans entered the services of Mr. Lynn of Vermont as clerk, with whom he remained until 1849, when with two other men he again embarked in the mercantile business. He continued in this business until 1874 when he retired due to ill health, being only 48 years old.
            The next year, on July 9, 1875, Lewis died.
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             Sarah married, third, Bird Pyle. She died January 4, 1899 in Sedan, Chautauqua, Kansas.

 30.

            LEMUEL LENEAR SCOTT (2), son of Martin and Sarah (Williams) Scott, was born September 7, 1828 in Adair County, Kentucky. He married Ann Mary Welch on April 22, 1850 in Abingdon, Knox County, Illinois. Ann was born in Kentucky on April 15, 1831. Her parents were Thomas and Martha (Brown) Welch. (Thomas Welch left his family when Ann Mary was two years old and was not heard from after that time. His wife, Martha, and their little daughter, moved to Illinois in April 1838 and were taken into the home of her brother, Reuben Brown, and lived with him and his family until Ann Mary was married. Some additional genealogy for descendants who may be looking at this: Martha (Brown) Welch was born to David Brown. He was born in Rockingham County, Virginia and with his family moved to Fountainhead, Sumner County, Tennessee. David had four children: Meriwether, Reuben S., Martha and Skelton).
            After Lemuel and Ann married, they soon moved to Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. Lemuel was one of the many brave soldiers who left family, home and friends to join those who were already in the war for the Union. Leaving his wife, three young sons and a little daughter, he left on August 12, 1862. He joined the 84^th Regiment Illinois Volunteers that day along with his nephew, William Martin Provine, and Martin’s cousin, John S. Provine. Lemuel was mustered into service as a Lieutenant, and later was promoted to Captain. Being wounded at the battle of Stone River, he was given a furlough for a month and came home. He returned at the end of his furlough and remained with the army until he was honorably mustered out at the close of the war.
            The family moved to Galesburg, Illinois in 1866.
            Lemuel died in Galesburg on March 19, 1898. Ann died June 9, 1914.
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45.

            JAMES SCOTT MOORE (3), son of John and Phoebe (Scott) Moore, was born on February 1, 1820 in Greene County, Kentucky. On January 12, 1849 in Putnam County, Illinois he married Narcissa Dickey. James farmed the original family farm after his father’s death. 
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50.

            MARGARET MOORE (3), daughter of John and Phoebe (Scott) Moore, was married to Thomas Galt on April 16, 1849 in Menard County, Illinois.. He was a Reverend from Springfield, Illinois.
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52.

            MARY MOORE (3), daughter of John and Phoebe (Scott) Moore, married David J. Straine on August 14, 1857 in Menard County, Illinois. He was a Reverend. They lived in Virginia, Illinois. They had one son  who lived in Nebraska.

FOURTH GENERATION

93.

            WILLIAM ROSS WINANS (4), son of Lewis and Sarah (Sallie) Martin (Scott) Winans, was born August 2, 1850 in Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. On October 2, 1871 he married Martha (Mattie) Ann McComb. She was born September 30, 1850 in New York state.
            After their marriage they lived in Vermont, Illinois awhile. After some changes, they settled in Canton, Fulton County, Illinois. They were in the grocery business. They had only one son who died in Canton.
            Mr. Winans died Dec 12, 1930. His wife died December 28, 1928, both in Canton, Illinois. They are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Canton.
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94.

            MYRON LEWIS WINANS (4), son of Lewis and Sarah (Sallie) Martin (Scott) Winans, was born October 29, 1852 in Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. On July 12, 1876 in Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, he married Fannie Jane Comstock Grant. She was born September 17, 1857 in New York City.
            They lived a few years in Galesburg, Illinois where two daughters were born to them. Then they moved to Fort Worth, Texas.
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96.

            FANNIE WINANS, daughter of Lewis and Sarah (Sallie) Martin (Scott) Winans, was born January 17, 1858. On October 7, 1875, she married John Rothman in Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. John was born July 11, 1847 in New York City. They lived in Table Grove, Illinois where their daughter Stella Norine was born. They moved to Canton, Illinois where their son Donald Jay was born. 
            Fannie died on May 14, 1885 when her son was only a few days old. Her husband John later married Fannie's sister Lou Ann. John died June 10, 1912 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.
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