A Death Date Found (About) for Sarah
“Sallie” (McDaniel) Scott
Jean M. Hoffman, CG
Sarah (also called Sallie) McDaniel
married John Scott in Clark County, Kentucky, 21 July 1803 with the
consent of her father Francis McDaniel.1 In 1819 they
lived in neighboring Fayette County, but finally settled in Harrison
County.2 Their neighborhood was called Scott's Station but
the name changed to Shady Nook to avoid confusion with another
Scott's Station in Jefferson County.3
John died in 1857 leaving a will that
names eleven children, both living and deceased, and some
grandchildren.4 In 1860 his widow lived with a married
daughter, Mary, the wife of Harrison Cummins, along with her youngest
child, Elizabeth.5 I had found no later trace of Sarah.
John was buried in the Old East Broadwell Cemetery but it has been
ruined as a cow pasture. It was transcribed by the DAR by 1960 so
there is some record. But Sarah is not in that list.6
Harrison County probate records are now
available online at FamilySearch. Looking through indexes I found an
entry for the estate of John Scott in 1867. It turned out to be an
affidavit filed by the executor of John's estate. The executor was
his son, Robert Scott, who reported having settled the estate of his
father previously, and that “about the last day of January 1867 his
mother, the widow of Jno Scott departed this life.” Her
assets were not enough for the expenses, but he had paid all the
demands on her estate. This was his final report submitted 14
December 1867.7 While the date of death reads “about”
that is probably the exact date and I consider it to be at least
close.
Endnotes:
1.
“Clark
County Marriage Bonds 1793-1850,” Clark County Public Library,
Winchester, Ky., bond and consent, Scott-McDaniel, 1803, scanned
images provided via email 20 April 2011.
2.
National Historical Company, History of Cass
and Bates Counties, Missouri, Containing... (Saint Joseph,
Missouri: National Historical Company, 1883), 514, gives Robert
Scott's date and place of birth.
3.
William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and
Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co.,
1882), 311-12.
4.
John Scott will (1857), Harrison County Will Book G: 410, Harrison
County Clerk's Office, Cynthiana, Ky.
5.
1860 U.S. census, Harrison County, Kentucky, population schedule,
District No. 1, page 62, dwelling/family 445, Harrison Cummins
household; NARA M653, roll 372.
6.
Kentucky Records Research Committee, compiler, Kentucky
Cemetery Records, Volume I (Lexington?: Daughters of the
American Revolution, Kentucky Society, 1960), 56, this is the book
with the original transcription of the stone but the cemetery is
under Bourbon County and called Old Broadwell M.E. Churchyard. Also,
Eric C. Nagle and Larry L. Ford, One Hundred
Cemeteries of Harrison County, Kentucky (Dayton, Ohio:
authors, 1992), 173. And, visit by author 28 August 2008 which
verified the condition and lack of access.
7.
”Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990,” FamilySearch
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GP9H-DWV?wc=37RN-VZ3%3A173387201%2C173851401&cc=1875188
: viewed 29 April 2018), digital film 004816028, image 205, Harrison
County Will Book I: 353, Affidavit of Executor, Estate of John Scott,
regarding estate of his widow, 1867.
