Elisha Andrew SCOTT

Sources:

1900 U.S. Censue - Whiteville, Baxter County, Arkansas, p. 4, ED 9
1910 U.S. Census - Madge, Harmon County, Oklahoma, p. 2A, ED 0129
1920 U.S. Census - Jefferson, Coal County, Oklahoma, p. 6A, ED 13
Internet IGI
Brandi Taylor, Taylor Family Genealogy (www.rootsweb.com)
Cave Creek Cemetery inventory, 15 Oct 2001, Harmon County, Oklahoma: b. 17 Sep 1854, d. 6 Apr 1923, plot S2R16
1880 U.S. Census - Independence, Baxter County, Arkansas, p. 254, ED6
Baxter County Historical Society, Early Marriages of Baxter County, Arkansas (FHL#976.721)
New.familysearch.org, Jun 2012

Notes:

                   Obituary from The Mangum Star (Mangum, Oklahoma), p. 1, column 3, 19 Apr 1923: "Elisha A. Scott died of euremic poison at his home near Vinson April 4th.  He was 67 years of age.  The funeral was conducted at the home and interment made at Vinson Cemetery."

Note: Brandi Taylor (Taylor Family Genealogy) states that Elisha was orphaned as a young child and raised by a family in Dallas Texas.  Haskill Dee Scott thought that Elisha Scott was born in Tennessee.  He and his sister were the only members of their immediate family to survive of the Civil War.  Elisha had two Scott uncles in Dallas, Texas, Oak Cliff area, who had come west from Tennessee.

Note: Elisha lists a different state for his birth on each census where he is listed: 1880 (listed as Elijah) - birthplace, Iowa; 1900 - birthplace, Georgia; 1910 - birthplace, Tennessee; 1920 - birthplace, Indiana.

Note: Verbal interview with Henry Elisha Scott:  Elisha Scott was born somewhere in Missouri.  His parents died and an aunt raised him.  He ran away from home at the age of thirteen to Arkansas.  He became a farmer of cotton and grain.  Sarah Young Scott was born at Gassville, Arkansas.  Elisha and Sarah Young Scott had six children: John, Will or William, Robert, Clotilda, Rose, and Henry Elisha.  The family moved to Coalgate, Oklahoma in 1897.  They lived there until Henry Elisha was seventeen years old, and then moved to Mangum, Oklahoma.

Note: In answer to a letter from Richard G. Scott in Aug 1961, the County Clerk of Baxter County Arkansas wrote: "Our court house burned in 1897.  We do not have any records prior to that date."  Signed, E.J. Princeton/Pinkston?  The building actually burned 23 Feb 1890.  "Some records were saved and transcribed.  A few of the originals are preserved in a vault, yellow and brittle and charred from the fire." (History of Baxter County Arkansas, by Frances Shiras McClelland, 1939.)

Alternate birth: 17 Sep 1854