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Samuel Scott
1804 – 18 Nov 1860
| Birth | 1804 |
| Death | 18 Nov 1860 |
| Cemetery | Prairie Home Cemetery La Cygne , Linn County , Kansas , USA |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47667665 |
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"Samuel Scott settled on the north side of Deepwater creek in 1834, and was appointed sheriff of the new county of Vernon when it was established in 1852, but the organization of Vernon county being afterward declared invalid, he lost his office. He went to Linn county, Kansas, in 1854, was elected by the proslavery party to the Territorial Legislature, and was killed by a band of guerillas in 1859,..." Source: Atkeson, W.O. History of Bates County Missouri. Topeka, Historial Publishing Company, 1918, Pg. 272. "How Bloody Was Bleeding Kansas? Political Killings in Kansas Territory, 1854-1861" By Dale E. Watts. Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. Summer 1995. Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 129. #56 Samuel Scott (proslavery) Killed by a party of Charles Jennison's men (antislavery) November 18, 1860, Linn County Hanged because he was a member of the first territorial legislature, had harbored proslavery raiders, and had returned to Kansas Territory after having been expelled twice... Information from Dolores J. Rush
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- Thomas Scott 1799–1877
- John Long Scott 1801–1871
- Russell Scott Sr 1808–1896
- Julian Frazier Scott 1810–1881
- Lydia Scott Hall 1812–1890
- Elizabeth "Betty" Scott Morris 1819–1889
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- Lydia Abigail Scott Harvey 1826–1877 FaG
- Julian E. Scott 1831–1917 FaG
- Thomas Marion Scott 1834–1906 FaG
- Margaret Jane Scott Huff 1836–1917 FaG
- Abigail Victoria Scott Green 1844–1916 FaG
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