Possibly from Ohio
1860 Warren Co., Virgina Twp., IA census: age 50 (b.~1810), b. VA.
Genealogical data as to William and Mary Channell Van Scoy, collected and arranged by Myrtle Rosalie Tedrow Emberson, of Hastings, NE, and Mary E. Little, of Monticello, IN, granddaughters of Wm. & Mary Van Scoy. March 25, 1911.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Van_Scoy
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/2W3Y-LLR
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHVX-6WS : 12 April 2016), Mary Vanscoy in household of Wm Vanscoy, White county, White, Indiana, United States; citing family 240, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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