When the question about IL Scotts came through, I responded, but ended up sending my message directly to the questioner rather than to the list. Just in case it's relevant to anyone else, I am resending it: [email protected] wrote: >Does anyone have any Scotts from Illinois? I see a lot of information on >Scotts everywhere else. I do, I do! :) Andrew Scott (son of Arthur Scott & ?) b. 7 Sep 1803 Bourbon Co, KY d. 22 Jul 1857 Sullivan Co, MO m. 28 Jun 1839 Shelby (later Moultrie) Co, IL: Martha Jay Waggoner (daughter of Amos Waggoner & Narcissa W. Jay) b. 8 Jan 1823 Rutherford Co, NC d. 28 Mar 1915 Long Beach, CA Three generations of Waggoners relocated to Illinois from NC in 1827/1828, and were some of the earliest settlers of Shelby County, part of which later became Moultrie County. Amos Waggoner was the first Justice of the Peace of Moultrie Co. Andrew Scott also came to IL in the 1820's, if I recall correctly--don't have all my notes at hand. The family temporarily relocated to Missouri, but Martha took the children back to IL, where her parents were still living, after the death of Andrew. There were 9 children, but most of them are "dead ends" genealogically speaking, since 3 of the 5 daughters and 2 of the 4 sons never married. And all of them ended up in California or Oregon, except one--Louis Kossuth Scott stayed in Moultrie County, where he was an elected official of some sort for most of his life. The two daughters who married both married the same man--not at the same time, of course! Margaret Jane Scott married James Gerking in 1862, in MO. The Gerkings (and there were a bunch of them) all moved to Oregon in about 1864 because father Gerking was afraid his sons would end up fighting in the Civil War (several of them had enlisted, then come home when their unit was disbanded--Dad wasn't taking any chances on them re-enlisting!) Margaret died in OR after giving birth to twins. She died in 1865. In 1884, her sister, Susan Isabel Scott, married James Gerking in Weston, Umatilla Co, OR. To make the tangled web even more so, Margaret and Susan's brother, William Henry Harrison Scott, married James Gerking's little sister Mary in 1868 in Marion County. WHH Scott homesteaded outside Centerville, Umatilla Co, OR--the name was eventually changed to Athena. (I seem to remember my great-grandfather, James Arthur Scott, was born in Centerville and died in Athena...but it was the same town.) The only other of the children to marry was Andrew E(dward) D. Scott, who married Ella Baker--must have run out of available Gerkings! He died in Long Beach, CA, but is buried in Fresno, or so I'm told. There are a lot of Scotts buried in cemeteries around Sullivan, Moultrie Co, IL, and I assume some of them, at least, are relatives of this family, but I have not yet had leisure to track down connections. I have quite a bit of information on the Waggoners and Jays, but not too much on the Scotts prior to Andrew. His father is supposed to have been Arthur Scott, b. 1777 in Pennsylvania; his family then removed to KY when this Arthur was 5. There is an Arthur Martin Scott who was born 21 Apr 1777 in Pennsylvania and died 10 Jul 1858 in IN who could be my Andrew's father, but I don't have proof of that. Arthur Martin's parents were Arthur Scott and Jean Ross, m. 25 Apr 1765 in Lancaster, PA. I would love to hear any information anyone might have for any of these people. I will happily share anything that I have about any of my ancestors. *CERIDWEN* Researching: Britain, Bashor, Burnett, Scott, Garst, Gerking, Hardman, Ritter, Ackley, Lane, Womack, Jay, Waggoner, Holeyfield, Goode, Bryson, Darland, Reynolds, Hutton, Myers, Rice, Frantz, Stewart, Sutphin, Turpin, Jordan, Wallace, Miller, others...