Scott Generations: 2008

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Old Reunion Pictures--Feel Free To Comment, Identify and Date

Friday, August 22, 2008

Papa Georgie

George Washington Scott was born on January 5th, 1890 in either Parks or Boles Arkansas, close to the Fourche La Fave River

. The Fourche La Fave, discovered and named by French traders in the 1680s, rises out of so uthern Scott county and flows east northeast approximately 140 miles through the Ouachita National Forest into the Arkansas River just northwest of Little Rock. George’s father was Peter W. Scott a farmer, probably cotton, and he was also called a merchant. Not much is known about his mother, Mary L. Billington, except that she was Peter’s second wife and she died sometime between George’s seventh and tenth year. George had 5 brothers and one sister. His brother’s were: John Boyd, Benjamin Franklin , Lewis Clifton called Ted, possibly a Sam and he had an older half-brother named James Thomas. He also had a little sister named Martha Elizabeth called Mattie. George was born in the dead of winter just after hog killin time, as the January 3rd 1890 edition of the Scott County Citizen reported: “A fatal malady broke out among the hogs all over the county last Monday, and hundreds of them bled to death, and have gone where all good hogs go–to the smoke house.” But the talk of the county, at the time, was the possibility Kansas City, Fort Scott and Sabine Pass railway being built through it. “Railroad talk has been so common for the last two years that it has become a “chestnut,” but all the disappointments that the people have suffered will not prevent the railroads from coming when they get ready. Although there are many false prophets, there are some true ones. “Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire,” read the hopeful Citizen.
Turn of the century Waldron Cotton Gin
Georgie and Dumpie married the 3rd of May 1914 when Georgie was 23 and Dump was 18.

Turn of the century Waldron Cotton Gin

Martha Ann Munday

This is a bad scan, I will try to get a better one from the Historical Society

Georgie's Grandmother----Martha A. Munday was born May 25, 1834 in Alabama, she was the second wife of Thomas Hartford Scott and she Papa Georgie's grandmother. Martha’s parents were Upton Munday and Elizabeth Ogletree. The name Munday has variant spellings (Mundy, Munday and Monday) many of which are in census records specific to her family. Her father is also called Ripton or Repton. This is a common occurrence in census records because a census taker would often come to a home and just write phonetically what he heard the first time. Martha’s father was originally from southern Tennessee. The Ogletree family is from the Virginia coast area and migrated to Wilkes County Georgia where Martha’s grandfather, Edmund, was born. The name Ogletree may be a corruption of a Scotch-Irish name Ocheltree. Martha had at least eight sisters-Elizabeth, Milinda, Margaret, Harriet, Jane, Mary and Susan- and one brother, William.Martha’s parents married in Tennessee and her grandparents, on both sides, seemed to have traveled with the family to both Alabama and east Texas. It was in Texas that nineteen-year-old Martha met and married the 39 year-old, twice married widower, Thomas Hartford Scott on October 9, 1852, and became the instant mother of several step-children. She and Mr. Scott moved to Scott County Arkansas where she spent the rest of her life. She bore her children there. Her children by Thomas Scott were Elizabeth, Louisa, Emily Jane, Peter Washington (Papa Georgie’s father) and Ben Franklin. She lived the hard life of a farmer’s wife and during the Civil War suffered the horror of having her husband killed by bushwhackers when she was thirty years old.She then married William C. Hawkins and bore him several children, William C., George B., Raliegh and Kansas S. It is rather bizarrely reported that she ‘kept’ what she assumed to be the bones of her first husband for sometime. Dad and I have speculated that it was upon marrying her second husband that the bones disappeared ;). There is no mention of a burial ever taking place as there seemed to be a question of whether the bones were actually her late husband’s. She lived a long and fruitful life, one Scott County publication described her as “a lady of culture and refinement.” She was a “worthy” member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. December 22, 1925, at the age of ninety-two, she died in her home from complications acquired when her dress caught afire after having backed too close to the stove. Her obituary declares that the community suffered a loss with ’Grandma Hawkins’ passing.

Some Old Pictures To Get Us Started

These are Dumpie's first cousins Stella (top) and Mattie Hawkins. They are the daugthers of her uncle Harmon Hawkins who was married to Georgie's great aunt Louisa Scott. These two girls never married and lived with a brother named Hiram Lafatte (Fate) who also never married.

Meet The First Cousin of Dumpie's Great-Great Grandpa (also named Benjamin Hawkins)

Colonel Benjamin Hawkins Dumpie had a brother named Lloyd Colonel and a nephew named Colonel Theodore, the name 'Colonel' is scattered throughout her ancestry her is why. Benjamin Hawkins (15 August 1754 – 6 June 1816), usually known as Colonel Hawkins, was an American farmer, statesman, and Indian agent from North Carolina. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a United States Senator, as well as a long term diplomat and agent to the Creek Indians. Benjamin was born to Philemon and Delia Martin Hawkins on August 15, 1754, the third of four sons. The family farmed and operated a plantation in what was then Granville County, North Carolina, but is now Warren County. He attended the College of New Jersey, later to become Princeton, but left in his last year to join the Continental Army. He was commissioned a Colonel and served for several years on George Washington's staff as his main interpreter of French. Hawkins was released from federal service late in 1777, as Washington learned to rely on Lafayettte for dealing with the French. He returned home, and was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1778. He served there until 1779, and again in 1784. The Carolina Assembly sent him to the Continental Congress as their delegate from 1781 to 1783, and again in 1787. In 1789, he was a delegate in the North Carolina convention that ratified the United States Constitution. He was then elected to the first U.S. Senate and served from 1789 to 1795. Although the Senate did not have organized political parties at the time, his views shifted during his term. Early in his Senate career, he was counted in the ranks of those Senators viewed as Pro-Administration, but by the third congress, he generally sided with Senators of the Republican or Anti-Administration Party. Indian Agent In 1785, Hawkins had served as a representative for the Congress in negotiations with the Creek Indians. He was generally successful, and convinced that tribe to lessen their raids for several years, although he could not conclude a formal treaty. The Creek wanted to deal with the head man, and finally signed the Treaty of New York after Hawkins convinced George Washington to become involved. In 1796, Washington appointed Benjamin Hawkins as General Superintendent of Indian Affairs dealing with all tribes south of the Ohio River. He personally assumed the role of principal agent to the Creek tribe. He moved to the area that is now Crawford County in Georgia. He was adopted by the Creeks, and took one of their women as his common-law wife. He began to teach agricultural practices to the tribe, starting a farm at his home on the Flint River. In time, he brought in slaves and workers, cleared several hundred acres and established mills and a trading post as well as his farm. His operation expanded until he had over 1,000 cattle and a large number of hogs. For years, he would meet with chiefs on his porch and discuss matters while churning butter. His personal hard work and open-handed generosity won him such respect that reports say that he never lost an animal to Indian raiders. He was responsible for the longest period of peace between the settlers and the tribe, overseeing 19 years of peace. When a fort was built, in 1806, to protect expanding settlements, just west of modern Macon, Georgia, it was named Fort Benjamin Hawkins. Hawkins saw much of his work toward building a peace destroyed in 1812. A group of Creeks, led by Tecumseh were encouraged by British agents to resistance against increasing settlement by whites. Although he personally was never attacked, he was forced to watch an internal civil war among the Creeks, the war with a faction known as the Red Sticks, and their eventual defeat by Andrew Jackson. During the Creek War of 1813-1814, Hawkins organized the friendly Creeks under Major William McIntosh to aid the Georgia and Tennessee militias during their forays against the Red Sticks. After the Red Stick defeat at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, activities in Georgia and Tennessee prevented Hawkins from moderating the Treaty of Fort Jackson in August 1814. Hawkins later organized friendly Creeks against a British force on the Apalachicola River that threatened to rally the scattered Red Sticks and reignite the war on the Georgia frontier. After the British withdrew in 1815, Hawkins began organizing a force to secure the area when he died from a sudden illness in June 1816. Benjamin never recovered from the shock of the Creek civil war. He had tried to resign his post and return from the Georgia wilderness, but his resignation was refused by every president after Washington. He remained Superintendent until his death on June 6, 1816. On his death bed, he married the woman who had given him four children over the years. Benjamin Hawkins was buried at the Creek Agency, on the Flint River near Roberta, Georgia. The modern Ocmulgee National Monument includes the site of the original Fort Hawkins. Hawkins County in Tennessee is named in his honor. From the Benjamin Hawkins family Tree

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