This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Scott, Call, Witty, Morrow, Elledge, Aten, Grimm, Hoover, Binder, Howard, Hooten, Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7429.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: JOHN CLARK SCOTT, born Bourbon Co., KY on Aug. 30, 1813 - died Apr. 25, 1895; married MALINDA CALL, born Jan. __, 1822 - died September 1, 1906; married on ____ __. 1837 in Covington, KY.....In 1838 they moved to Platte county, Missouri, and on March 3, 1842 arrived in what is now Washington township, Fremont county, settling on the N 1/2 of the SW quarter of section 26 township 68 range 42; this farm is still in the family. It is almost straight west of Riverton, Iowa, atop the loess bluffs, and just south of the pioneer Buckham Cemetery. CHILDREN (as far as known): 1. Elizabeth A., b. March 11, 1840 in Platte Co., MO - d. Apr. 16, 1908; married (1) Anderson S. Witty, b. ___ __, 1833 in KY - d. ____ __, ____ during the time of the Civil War; married on Aug. 2, 1856 in Atchison county, MO. Married (2) Noah Webster Morrow, b. ____ __, 1840 - d. March 26, 1926; married on Nov. l7, 1865. Buried at Utterback. SEE "Thumprints", page 328. 2. Sarah J., born Feb. 27, 1842 in Fremont county - d. ____ __, 1910; married Edward Elledge, b. ____ __, 1841 -d. ____ __, ____; married on ____ __, ____. Hamburg Reporter of Jan. 2, 1941 says they moved to Nebraska in 1886, later to Osage, Kansas. SEE "Thumprints" page 328. 3. Mary A. "Mollie", born Jan. 24, 1849 -d. Feb. 25, 1902; married William L. Aten, born May 28, 1838 - d. July 10, 1901; married on Mar. 29, 1870 in Fremont countyl Buried at Hamburg. Served in 42nd Ohio Infantry during the Civil War. Son of Alexander Aten. 4. (A son), born circa 1851 -died by 1854. 5. John F., born June 29, 1854 - died at age of 24 years 3 months 22 days (died Oct. 21, 1878). Buried at Hamburg. 6. George W., b. Apr. 21, 1856 - d. May 5, 1893. Buried at Hamburg. 7. Malinda, born Jan. 22, 1858 -d. March 4, 1923; married Melvin Grimm, b. Nov. 1865 in Sullivan county, MO -d. ____ __, ____; married on Oct. 2, 1895 at Sidney. Son of Jacob and _______ (Swiggart) Grimm. Buried at Hamburg. 8. Caroline C., born April, 20, 1860 - died Apr. 23, 1906 two miles west of Hamburg; married William F. Hoover, born Oct. 11, 1858 - d. Feb. 20, 1924; married on Apr. 16, 1888 at Rev. James Lytle's. 9. Stephen Arnold, b. July 7, 1862 - d. July 15, 1934; married (1) Emma C. Binder, b. Jan. 5, 1854 (?) - d. March 30, 1910; married on July 29, 1884 at Sidney. Married (2) Mrs. Richard Hooten (nee Minnie Howard), daughter of Thomas Howard......He lived on his father's farm. 10. James A., b. Jan. 12, 1866 - d. Nov. 18, 1870 aged 4 years 10 months 6 days. Buried Hamburg. 11. (The FREMONT COUNTY HISTORY of 1881, page 644, says there were eleven children in all, but I have no further information.) N.B.: It would be a daunting task to write anything near a complete history of this family, even if you included only its Fremont county record. The family was here when Fremont county was a part of Holt county, Missouri; and then a part of Atchison county, Missouri; and then a part of Fremont county, Iowa from the time of the county's organization up to the present day. Its history should mention Fort Croghan, Fort Kearney, French Village, the Half Breed Farms Neighborhood (Judge J. C. Scott married August Vassow and Claudia LaFrombois), the Iowa-Missouri border dispute, the Mexican War, the Oregon Trail and the westward emigration, Missouri river steamboats, arrival of the telegraph, stage coaches, the South Tier, the Council Bluffs - St. Joseph emigrant road, the establishment of the county seat, John Brown and Jim Lane, the founding of Nebraska City and freighting across the western plains, the 1849 and the 1859 gold rushes...etc....etc....and that would take the author! of the Scott family history only up to the Civl War. The Hamburg Reporter of Jan. 2, 1941 says that Judge John Clark Scott's father was a cousin of one of the members of the famous Lewis and Clark team exploring the Lousiana Purchase. -- W.F. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.