William Scott, son of James and Nancy (Cassidy) Scott, was born 6 May 1790, probably in South Carolina where his family was living.
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(Note: The biography that accompanies the Find A Grave memorial refers to the wrong person. See the Notes section below.) He moved with his family to Kentucky in the early 1800s. In 1819, he rode horseback from Kentucky to Princeton, New Jersey to study theology, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister.
In May 1822 he married Sarah Ann Tate in Green County, Kentucky. The marriage bond was signed by Wm. Scott and Elijah Tate on 3 May 1822.
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William and Sarah raised their family in Kentucky. They had two sons and two daughters. The oldest son, Elijah T., born 1 August 1826, later became a physician in Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri, and died there on 19 November 1904.
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The younger son, William, studied for the ministry, but died as a young man. The names of the two daughters are unknown.
In 1837, with William's health failing, he and Sarah moved to Fulton, Missouri, to be near her family.
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Their oldest son, Elijah, was only ten years old at the time. William died there on 29 July 1837, not long after they arrived. He is buried in the Old Auxvasse Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Callaway County. His gravestone reads: "Rev. Wm. Scott, Born May 6th 1790, Died July 29th 1837."
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He was 47 years old.
Notes
Although William's gravestone is memorialized at Findagrave.com, the biography attached to it belongs to another person, William B. Scott, who also lived in Callaway County, but was still alive in 1840 when he wrote his will.[6]
Some online family trees claim that Elizabeth Jane Scott (born 22 May 1811, Virginia; died 6 March 1870, Boone County, Missouri), who married Waller Chauncey Maupin, was one of William's daughters, but that seems unlikely since she was born more than a decade before William married Sarah Tate.
Assorted family trees[7][8][9][10] state that William Scott was born May 6 1789 in Tennessee, and died circa July 29 1839. The 1830 U.S. Census of Knox County, Tennessee, shows a William Scott and family living in Knoxville, Knox Co. (Their son Elijah was born in Knoxville [Evidence?] several years earlier.) Listed next to William in the census is someone named Henry Scott, and an older woman named Polly Scott. Note: The 1830 Knox County census record shows William to be between 15 and 19 years old, too young to be this William. More research needs to be done to find William in the 1830 census.
Family members
Parents:
Father: James Scott, 1758 - 1813
Mother: Nancy Scott (born Cassidy), 1758 - 1835
Spouse: Marriage bond between William and Sarah Ann "Sally" Scott (born Tate) was made on 3 May, 1822. They may not have been married on this date
Siblings:
Thomas Scott, 1781 - ?
Samuel Scott, 1786 - ?
Martin Scott, 1788 - 1837
Sarah "Sally" Rayburn (born Scott), 1793 - 1823
Stephen Scott, 1797 - ?
John Scott, 1783 - 1849
Jane Ewing (born Scott), 1787 - 1859
Reuben Scott, 1791 - ?
Elijah Scott, 1795 - 1882
Phebe Moore (born Scott), 1799 - 1868
Children:
Elizabeth Jane Scott [doubtful], b. 22 May 1811; d. 6 Mar 1870 Ashland, Boone, MO
William Scott, was a ministry student who died in early manhood
Elijah Scott (1829-1886), a physician in Fulton County, Missouri
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
William Scott :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup J-M172, Ancestry member Wnscott50, FTDNA kit #899623
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
Rev. William Scott's eldest son, Elijah, was probably Dr. Elijah T. Scott (1826-1904) of Callaway County, Missouri, not Elijah Scott (1829-1883) (Scott-12709) who was born in Tennessee and died in Woodson County, Kansas.