Thought I would send a few more bits of interesting reading. Don Coatney The following is a transcript of a hand written letter from George Combe Coatney to his Brother Benjamin Harrison Coatney. Benjamin Harrison Coatney and George Combe Coatney were both born in Scott County, Indiana. April 8, 1896 Mr... B. H. Coatney Dear Brother: I read your letter some time ago but was fixing to move & did not write sooner because I did not know where I would stay & do not know yet but will write again soon as I stay. I am now at Mariposa in the Sierra Range of mountains prospecting but I am not fixed like I want to be. I am going to get a Burro for a pack animal and go north further in the mountains. It is warm and pleasant here although we are in sight of snow the year round. My health is very good. This mountain life is delightful. I have my blankets & sleep under a pine tree every night. I passed close to the Yosemite Valley yesterday but did not go with it is to cold now. I will not stop here long. When I locate a claim I will write. There was an old man 70 years old struck a ledge a few days ago & sold out for $60,000.00. Others every day making good finds. As I am in somewhat of a hurry I will close. I am so glad to know you are well again. I was very uneasy. Give all my best respects & don't write until you ! hear from me again. Respectfully yours: G. C. Coatney This letter was written to George Washington Coatney from his brother Nashville Coatney. George Washington Coatney lived in Scott County, Indiana. Yorktown, VA. May 2nd, 1864 Dear Brother it is with great pleasure that I seat myself for the purpose of dropping you a few lines in answers to yours of April 25th which just came to hand it found me well this leaves me the same and I hope it will find you all well. We left South Carolina and went to Florida and was there about 2 months and then we came back to Virginia. We are now on Gloucester Point opposite Yorktown. I don't know how long we will stay here. Well George I only have 45 days to stay. Wee will bee out on the 18th of June next so you may look for me home before long. If you can I would like to have the money you owe me by the 1st of September next. I will send you one of our company pictures and take good care of it for me. There is no news of importance so you need not answer this letter for I will bee on m way home before it could get here so no more. Nashville Coatney The following transcript is from a hand written letter from Thomas Jefferson Coatney to his mother Arminda Bernard Spurgeon Coatney Johnson in Scott County Indiana. December 14, 1878 New Madrid Missouri Dear Mother As it is Sunday and raining I will write you a long letter and tell you how we are getting along as well as some things about our trip. We are all well at present. George and Oswil (?) have been sick but they are getting well as fast as they can. Now I must tell you some things about the trip. We started from Louisville in a skiff. We had no beds so we slept on the rocks without any covers for two nights. Then we bought our boat. It is 7x25 with a cabin 7x14 ft. We are pretty well fixed. We have a good stove with a skillet, pot stewer, plates, knives, forks, and other things too numerous to mention. In the grub line we have plenty of meal, meat, salt, flour, apples, potatoes, beans, molasses, & game. We have plenty of ammunition, a lantern, lamp, and chimney, plenty of coal oil. For beds we have great big coffee sacks stuffed with straw. Our progress down the Ohio was slow but when we struck the Mississippi we went it skwting like opossum on a sleety limb. There is a great d! eal of difference in the scenery on the two rivers. That of the Ohio being a great deal the most beautiful. The banks of the Mississippi are giving away all the time with a swollen roar that sounds like heavy cannons 25 or 30 miles off. I saw a big tree go in yesterday clear out of sight.We have run into a bayou just above town. We are run with it up into the swamps to hunt and trap. Well mother I understand you have moved back to the farm so they wrote to us. I am glad to hear it. If you now have the boys with you and I reckon you have tell them I said to be good honest boys and to learn all they can and to take good care of you. Boys you must write to me. Both of you. Now don't forget it for I want to hear from you. I have not received any letters from home yet. Please tell uncle Ben to write and send me a democrat paper or two. Well mother I have written you a long letter. I will wind up by requesting that you write soon and let me know how you are getting along. Address ! at New Madrid, Madrid Co. MO. Yours Truly: T. J. Coatney

Hello List members; I have pasted below a journal entry made by my Great Uncle Thomas Jefferson Coatney in 1890. To see more of my collection go to the following web page. http://www.rootsweb.com/~inscott/Coatney.html If anyone has information on the following surnames I would like to share information. Coatney, Morgan, Close, Spurgeon, Kent, Townsend, McClellan, McCoskey, Phillips, Belch, Harding, Wells, Johnson, Hazzard, Comer, Cook, Jones, Wendelboe, and Williams. Enjoy, Don Coatney The following is taken from a hand written ledger. September 24, 1890. Sketch of the life travels and adventures of T.J. Coatney designed to assist memory in preparing a more complete work later. Thomas Jefferson Coatney was born December 15, 1857 in Scott County, Indiana a few miles east of Austin. A little town situated on the ?????Ky.... near a little stream called Hwtto (probably an Indian name) upon a farm called the Owen place surrounded by the primitive forests of North America. December 15th A.D.1857. My parents were George Washington Coatney born a descendent of the McIntosh family of Kentucky Estill Co.and was a man of rare intelligence, mental power, and attainments, and integrity firmness, and innocence. He labored under great disadvantages physically owing to injuries received to his eyes. The right eye being hurt in the following manner. At the age of eight years in the State of Kentucky though he was born in Jefferson County Indiana and his parents moved with him. While his mother swept the house he sat upon the floor whittling with a knife having the little blade open. She asked him to move and he did not. Then she took him by his right arm and raised him up with a quick movement which caused him to stick the blade in his eye. He never saw out of it any more. Purely accidental and sincerely regretted. Then about 18 years afterward they had returned to Jefferson County Indiana where he was afflicted with a fever. Being partly recovered he ! went to a spring with a rifle gun to look for a squirrel desiring something of that kind to eat. The gun was cocked and laying across his knee when on account of weak nervousness it was accidentally discharged. A piece of the percussion cap struck him in the left eye and nearly put it out so that when it healed there was a milky spec covering the greater part of the pupil causing defective sight so he could no longer see to read. He could see people coming but could not tell a man from a woman at 50 yards. However he was to do blacksmithing. I have seen him mend his log chains and work on axes. He could saw, chop, plow, sow, or do nearly any kind of farm work. Also make the very best of baskets or brooms which later two things he learned to do at the Institution for the Blind at Indianapolis Indiana where he went for treatment after his left eye was hurt. The Institution being in charge of Dr. Vanmeter. After recovering so that he could travel he went about lecturing and tea! ching Phrenology in which he was proficient having been a very diligent reader in youth while he was learning the blacksmith business with the Tobis family in Jefferson County in his native state. Going first into Kentucky and then returning to southern Indiana. It was while traveling in his native county in the year 1857 being united in his business with a magic lantern and slight of hand show conducted by one John T. Whitman that he became aquatinted with and married Miss Arminda Bernard Spurgeon who is my beloved mother. She being native of the County of Scott State on Indiana. My earliest recollection being that we lived in a house upon a farm owned by George Miranda several miles southwest of my birthplace. At that time I was about two years old and thought that I could chop stovewood for mommy and cut my left knee very badly leaving a scare that I bear at the present time September 24, 1890. Then my father bought a farm from a man named Abbot and removed to it about 1860. Said farm being 1/8 mile northwest of the Miranda place now owned by Warren Miranda and is the property and home of my mother known as the Coatney place being situated 3 1/2 miles straight east of a little town in Washington County called Little York and is! the W 1/4 of the N 8 1/4 of sec 15 town range of Findlay Township Scott County State of Indiana. My present home being on 40 acres 1/2 mile east between the lines which form the northern and southern boundaries of my mothers place with the place formerly occupied by Zephaniah and Marinda Spurgeon my mothers parents. Between them description of land now occupied as my home to which I am the oldest of 4 lawful heirs. The same having been bought by my father before his death caused by typhoid fever breathing his last at one o'clock in the morning of August 6, 1871. He was buried at Zoah Cemetery about 1/2 acre of which is including the grave of my father, grandfather, and other relatives and friends is on the northeast corner of the farm where I live described as follows. Section 14, town 3, range 6, acres 40, Vienna Township, Scott County Indiana.

http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo The url above allows you to find a county for any town in the US. Pat Mount

Hi List, In two weeks, my dad and I will be going to the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, IN - the second largest place for genealogy records in the U.S. Just to let you know I will take requests to do a lookup for either census, death index, birth index, or marriage index. I will, however, request a contribution to defray costs of copies and postage. Please include the county and state; I am on more than one mailing list. Thanks. Monica

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Anyone have a name and, hopefully, an e-mail address for a member of the Scott County Cemetery Commission? Thanks. Lois ==================== HAVE YOU SIGNED A PETITION TO SLOW THE RELOCATION OF CEMETERIES INDIANA? See Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp Clark Co., IN Cemetery Preservation Committee: http://www.rootsweb.com/~incccpc

Seeking correspondence with anyone with additional knowledge of the family of Richard (1837-1906?) and "Tacy" EVERHART (1842-1928) BRANHAM/BRANAM who were married in Scott county 06 Mar 1864. Their children were Capitola "Cappie"> (1865-1934) and George W. Branham (1869-1928) who married Harriett I Price on 02 Apr 1905 also in Scott county. The 1910 census lists a foster daughter - Pearl N BRIDGEWATERS age 14 living with "Tacie" and Cappie. The 1920 census lists Pearl ALLEN age 24 (as grand daughter) and Lord? H ALLEN age 03 ( as grand son) living with Tacy and Cappie. A Richard BRANHAM served in H Co. 58th Inf Reg. IN and supposedly died 3/8/1906. However the 1900 census lists Tacy as widowed and I find a Richard BRANHAM of the correct age living in Clark county as a boarder with the family of Ben & Lula BAXTER. Richard was my 2nd great uncle and I'd love to find some answers on this part of the family tree. Can anyone help? Thanks, Jim James D. VanDerMark [email protected] "I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not." --Lucille Ball

I am looking for info on my g-grandfather, John Milton MCNEELEY, b. April 23, 1848 in Scott County, Indiana (near Blotcher), d. March 24, 1926. Married Mary Catherine TULL Nov. 2, 1876 in Battle Ground, IN. They had a son (my grandfather) James Milton MCNEELEY. She had a son previous to this marriage, William G. SHAW. Mary Catherine TULL is buried in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, but he is not. They were separated/divorced? He was living in St. Louis, Missouri in 1907. I am trying to find out where he lived when he died and if he re-married and had another family. Has anyone come across him in their research? Thanks, Sue

In a Scott County, IN Cemetery book in library there is a notation in the Horner Cemetery section regarding John Devore AMOS b. 1790 d. 1864 with detailed family info. It references a Scott County Chronicle. I assume this is a newspaper from that area. Does anyone know if this article is published or displayed somewhere since it was made part of the abstracted listing the compiler of this book put together? I would like to know more about the Chronicle referernce and when an article may have appeared regarding John AMOS. Thanks for any help. Melissa

I found the answer. Mordacai AMOS served in the 22nd Regiment Company H Indiana Infantry. Civil War. Adeline ROBBINS born 1870 (wife of Mordacai's son Harry AMOS) was the daughter of Hiram and Elizabeth AMOS. Would love to correspond with anyone working on this line.

Mordicia AMOS b. abt. 1843 and who was married to Sarah MONROE in Scott County, Indiana may have served in the Civil War. If anyone has listings of various Regiments from Scott County area, I would appreciate knowing if Mordicia is listed. Mordicia and Sarah had a son named Harry AMOS (born 1868 in Scott County) who died in Clark County, Indiana in 1946. He was married to Adeline ROBBINS. Thanks for any info Melissa

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.indiana.counties.scott Above is the new url to get to the consolidated message board for Scott Co. Pat

Searching for the 1860 location of the following family which appears on the 1850 Scott County Indiana census, as well as any info on related families: John Montgomery 39 b. Indiana Mary 38 Indiana Rebecca 18 Indiana Elizabeth 16 Indiana Mary K. 12 Indiana Malinda A. 10 Indiana James T. 7 Indiana John M. 2 Indiana Sarah E. 4/12 Indiana They do not appear to be on the 1860 census of Scott County and may no longer be in Indiana at all in 1860. Suspect that these may be the parents/family of Andrew Jefferson Montgomery, b. 1851 in Scott County, who's father is listed as Jonathan Montgomery. Any/all leads appreciated! Thanks! Gregory Brown [email protected]

Hello! If your old bookmarks for the message boards at Rootsweb are giving you fits.... If you can't find the main boards for the county or name you looking for try the following: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw Can't guarantee that it will work but this seems to be the main area for getting to all the boards at Rootsweb. Pat

Next time you visit the Scott Co. message boards at Rootsweb you will notice a change in format. The new boards can be accessed the same as always through the Scott Co. InGenWeb page, through Rootsweb and now through Ancestry.com. They are FREE. There is no charge to post queries and/or information. They will only work if you use them!!! Pat Mount CC Scott Co. INGenWeb

Hello to all, My name is Paul Hopper. My grandfather, Elijah King Hopper, was born in Indianapolis in 1861. My great-grandfather, Elijah Hopper, was born around 1829. The records indicate that he was born in Yoshen, Indiana, but I think it should read Goshen, Indiana, since there is no Yoshen. I also believe that the city of Goshen is the one in Scott County. I have noticed that Samuel Hopper, who lived in Scott County around Bocher, had a son named Elijah. Is there anyone that can help me to find information on Samuel Hopper's son, Elijah? I am trying to find a connection to my great-grandfather Elijah Hopper, who was born around 1829, in Goshen, Indiana. Thanks for any and all help. Paul Hopper [email protected]

The gremlins have been at work... I have been having computer problems, and have managed to Lose my address book. I would greatly appreciate, if anyone, who has had correspondence with me in the last 2 years, or if my name is in your address book, would contact me, so that I might rebuild my address book. Thank you very much. I will be greatly appreciated. Dick Carter [email protected]

Jeff Harmon has posted, for everyone's reference, an index to the obituaries and death notices in The Chronicle, Scottsburg, Indiana, for the years 1910 - 1929 at the following address: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tashpage/. This index can also be accessed through the Scott Co. INGenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~inscott

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I've just finished adding transcriptions of some letters and a whole series of actual images of letters written during the Civil War era to the Scott Co. INGenWeb page Please take a minute to visit if you are interested in Civil War era history or the surnames Coatney or Morgan. Below is the direct url: http://www.rootsweb.com/~inscott/Coatney.html If you haven't visited the Scott Co. INGenWeb page, I invite you to stop by and see what is available. We have an outstanding group of volunteers for lookups, 1850 and 1860 Census transcriptions, lots of pictures and information. Donations of information, databases, photos, etc. are always welcome. http://www.rootsweb.com/~inscott Pat Mount CC Scott Co. INGenWeb