This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zh.2ADE/1014.1044.1063 Message Board Post: According to the 1880 census of Fisher Township on the east side of Fremont County, Iowa, E. H. Scott, age 42, a farmer, born in Ohio of parents born in the same state, was married to Almona, 39, born in Illinois of a mother from Vermont and a father from Ohio. A daughter Lizzie, 12, born in Illinois, lived with them as well as Jane Sutliff, "mother," 62, born in Ohio of a mother born in Pennsylvania and a father born in Ohio. (p. 82B). I think that Jane Sutliff is Almona's mother, widowed for a second time and living out her life with her second married name; I had recorded a second marriage to Sutliff for Jane before I noticed this census entry. On March 19, 1884, Erastus Scott made deposition "E" No. 320,140 in the matter of Albert Russell's suitability for a pension. Erastus, age 46, was living 5 miles south of Farragut in the county of Fremont in Iowa. Erastus was not helpful to Albert's case. He had known Albert before the Civil War: "I was raised a boy in the same neighborhood with him until he went into the army; I enlisted after he did, and came home about two months before he did in 1865." Erastus repeated gossip to the investigator, but he did say that Albert was healthy before the war. Erastus denied being related to Albert Russell which was true in the sense that they had no blood relationship, but Erastus' wife was sister to Orange Brittell, and Orange Brittell was brother-in-law to Albert--I think. On March 30, 2003, in the Rootsweb forum for Freemont County, Iowa, Walter Farwell posted this information about Erastus: "Erastus H. SCOTT, born Feb. 25, 1838, in McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio - d. Mar. 25, 1914; married Almonia Britell on 11/12/1865; she died in Feb. 1901. In Civil War, served in Co. "D", 75th Illinois Volunteer Infantry; had come to Illinois at age 15 years. (?): Daughter Mrs. Lizzie Stewart (?). Burial Farragut."