I am Inez Carney. I am married to Jack Carney and we live in Golden Colorado. My maiden name is Inez Scott and my nick name is Scottie. My son Toma is helping me put what I know of the scott family history on this web site. If you have records, stories, pictures GedCom genealogy files or anything else that will help comlpete our family history please contact us. My Email is iccarney (@) hotmail.com (remove the spaces and (@) ) We do this to avoid the spammers.

 

My mother and father  Milisa Virgina (Jeannete) and Andrew Vanberaun Scott. His nick name was Van.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My father was one of five brothers 

 

When I was a little girl, still at home with my family, one day, I sat down with mother’s Bible and I looked up the family tree and there were no names. So, I began to fill in the names, asking my mother about the names and dates of our family. She said, “My grandfather’s name was Billy Wright and he lived in Pratt City. My mother’s name is Laura Wright.” She then said “Your grandfather’s name is Jim Scott and he had a brother named Robert Scott who lived in Mountain Creek,
My daddy’s name was Willy Yarbrough. He died January 1st, 1899”. This was all that she told me at that time.

Later, after I had married and had separated from my first husband, with my two children, I was back home with my mother. I picked up the Bible again and added my children and their date of birth.

Somewhere, around 1980, my oldest sister, Arietta, at a time when the family was together at her house, Arietta said, “Inez is doing our genealogy”. (This was the first that I knew I was supposed to be doing the family tree). At that time she gave me some more information. This was the beginning of my interest in our family history.

A few years later, when my husband and I were visiting my cousin Mildred, whose maiden name was Scott, Living in Cooleemee, North Carolina. We got into a discussion of how our family came into America. Mildred informed us that the first member of our family to set foot on American soil was a Scott who came into Savannah, Georgia, with a James Oglethorpe to develop a project that had never been attempted before in an American Colony. His proposed venture was to design a city with streets and land divided into personal lots and public parks. Mildred told us that our late uncle Horace Duncan Scott was the one who told her. Mildred also said Uncle Horace told her that one of the Scotts “down the line had married a Creek Indian”.

This stirred up my interest in genealogy. I had to find out when, where, and how all of this had happened. It was a mystery which I felt compelled to solve. The investigation has resulted in hours upon hours of research over a period of nearly twenty years, traveling to different states, several cities and small towns. Every bit of information and historical document I uncovered gave incentive to find the next piece, the previous generation and, to link all of the generations from my own back to the original Scott that set foot in Savannah, Georgia.

FAMILY HISTORY

 

 

Told by my Uncle Horace Duncan Scott To Mildred Scott daughter of Rubin Beauzell Scott son of James Monroe Scott son of Robert H. Scott son of James Mitchell Scott son of (?) Scott and Mary Elizabeth 'Mitchell', "Scott", Parrish.

"A Scott came into Savannah, Georgia with James Oglethorpe to settle the new planned city. He received  lot # 144 in Savannah.  One of the Scotts down the line married a Creek Indian."

In 1980  a friend of mine, Joyce Blackman, her son Mickey Miles, my sister Arietta Frazier. and I went to Savannah, Georgia.  While there I did some research in the Library and found:

 

John Scott is the only Scott that came in with Oglethorpe to receive land.

 

I also found the Colonial Records of Georgia and saw where John Scott applied to come to

Savannah, Georgia.

 

John Scott came into Savannah Georgia in 1733/34 with James Oglethorpe. His >wife Henrietta, son James and daughter Sarah came with him. Two sons Thomas Scott and William Scott were born in Georgia.  John Scott moved his family to Carolina March 1738.

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1733-1742 Early Settlers

Coulter, E. Merton and Saye, Albert B.

"A LIST OF EARLY SETTLERS Of GEORGIA"

University of Georgia Press, Athens Georgia, 1949

 

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MARY ELIZABETH MITCHELL  1770/76-1832

     My family is traced back to Mary Elizabeth Mitchell born about 1770/76 in

Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. She first married a (??) Scott

and they had 4 children.

1. Annie Scott married William Jackson

2. Mary Scott born January 15, 1792 married Thomas Smith 7 November 1807

in Georgia.  They lived in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia and had some of

their children there before moving to Autauga County, Alabama in 1819.

3. Rebecca Scott born about 1795 married James Goodson and lived in Autauga

County, Alabama in the early 1800's.

4. James Mitchell Scott born about 1797 in Georgia.  He married

Ruth Showmake.

      After (??) Scott died Mary Elizabeth married (??) Parrish and either he died

or she left him and moved from Jones County, Georgia with Thomas and Mary

Smith to Autauga County, Alabama.

     Elizabeth Parrish bought land grants in 1827 and 1831 in Autauga County,

Alabama.

     This was written in a memorandum from Thomas Whetstone Smith about

his memory of the family history.  "Grandpa born June 4th 1779 died August

1861, 82 years old.  Mary Scott Parrish came to Alabama with Grandpa.  Mary

Mitchell the mother of our grandmother married first a man named Scott, had 3

children, 2 daughters and one son, afterwards she married a Parrish, when

Grandpa moved to Alabama she came with them leaving Parrish and lived

about a qu of a mile above Uncle Daniel's mill, was found dead in bead one

morning."
 
 

I have a copy of her intestate papers

and she had at that time 80 acres of land and improvements,   3 female slaves,

Nana, Sally and Harriot plus house hold items, one spinning wheel, one loom

and gear, farm equipment, cattle, side saddle, blanket, bridle, one mare & colt,

one mule, oxen and cart.
 
 

Autauga County, Alabama Land was transferred February 2, 1829 from

Elizabeth Parrish to James M. Scott says for the natural love and affection for

my son James M. Scott.

James M. Scott married Ruth Showmake about 1829

Children:
(1) Amanda J. Scott born 1831 in Alabama (No record of marriage)

                           a.  Elias E. Scott         born  May 18, 1853  in Autauga County, Alabama
                           b. Harriet H. Scott     born  1855  in Autauga County, Alabama

(2) Martha Scott born 1831 (twins)??   Martha was

living with Randal Blake in the 1850 US census Autauga County, Alabama in

Pine Flatt.  they had one son living with them, his name was George Blake.

Ruth Scott and her family lived a few lines down on the census paper with a

baby 3 months old by the name of William R. Blake.  In the 1860 census

Martha Scott was living with Robert H. Scott and Eliza J. in Independence, AL

(3) Matilda Scott born. 1833 in Alabama,

(4) Robert H. Scott born 1835 in Alabama died May 16, 1864 Killed in Action

at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia.  Pvt., Hillard's Legion 2nd Battalion, Co. E,

Alabama Volunteers. March 16, 1862 Wounded at Chickamauga and in

Hospital in Atlanta September 20, 1863.  Unit was transferred to Co. B 59th

Regiment Alabama Volunteers.  Listed in book "DEATH, MARRIAGE AND

PROBATE NOTICES FROM MONTGOMERY ALABAMA NEWSPAPERS 

VOLUME 1 (1821-1865)  compiled by Larry E. Carver, Jr. on page 69

Wounded mortally: R.H. SCOTT, in head, since dead.

(5) Harriot Scott b. 1837 in Alabama

Robert H. Scott married Elizabeth Jallene ( Eliza J.) Muse

Children of Robert H. Scott & Eliza J. Muse are:

(1) James Monroe Scott born December 6,1860 in Autauga County,

Alabama died June 29, 1911 in Shelby County, Alabama

James Monroe Scott married Mary M. (Mamie) Ross - Chilton Co, Mars Hill,

AL May 24, 1885. Mary M. (Mamie) Ross born June 10, 1861 d. March 12,

1913 Shelby Co. AL both James Monroe Scott and Mamie were buried in Old

Siluria Cemetery.  The cemetery is now in a housing development. 

Instructions to help find the cemetery.  Just south of Birmingham, Alabama Turn off

Interstate  65 at exit 238 turn right onto highway 31  and left on highway 119.

Just after you enter 119 you will make a right turn on the street north of the

shopping center, follow it to the next left turn and follow it to  ( Winterhaven Cove). 

Turn left to Cemetery.  Chain link fence is around it with steps up to gate.

Grave yard will be on the right near the end of the Culdesac.  

    On the back of Maime's tomb stone are these words:

                                                      Sorrows heal

                                                                                         xxxxxxx

(2) Robert E. Scott born about 1863 in Autauga County, Alabama.  He was

listed with William D.  Oats and Eliza J. Oats in 1870 US census and 1880 US

census Autauga Co., AL.  Robert E. Scott was reported by Jeanette Scott living

in Mountain Creek, Chilton Co., Alabama  I have not found him it must have been in the 1890's.

Children of James Monroe Scott and Mary M (Mamie) are:

(1) Andrew Van Buren Scott, (2) Horace Duncan Scott, (3) Thomas Collins

(Sanque) Scott, (4) James Robert Scott, (5) Rubin Beauzell Scott and (6) Myrtle

Mae Scott ..1 or 2  babies died early and are buried in Siluria Cemetery

3.   Annie Scott who married William Jackson they had 2 sons as per resent

email from (Gladys who is a descendant of James Jackson in Autauga County,

Alabama.)

      sons of Annie Scott and William Jackson are:

                                          I. Martin Jackson

                                        II. Elbert Jackson

         [James Jackson has a "William Jackson" in his will May 2, 1832 Autauga

County, Alabama.   (I then give to my Nephew, William Jackson, now of the

state of Georgia, one negro boy by the name of Henry, about 15 years of age.) ]