Scott family history
                                     
                                     
  This material  came from  a  "History of  the  Scott's" by  
  Sylvester Scott who was a first cousin of Avesta Scott. He  
  completed it in 1948.
                                     
  The Scott family is very rich with early American history.  
  It started in this country when Alexander I came to America. 
  He was born in southeast England about 1698, and he died in 
  1751, in  the Shenandoah  Valley  of Virginia,  in Augusta  
  county. Augusta county took in the  area that is now known  
  as West Virginia and part of Pennsylvania.
  
  Alexander Scott had 8 children, 5 boys and three girls. The 
  youngest son, David was  a Captain in  the Army during the  
  Revolutionary War. Our direct ancestor was the seventh child 
  and his name was Benjamin.
   
  Benjamin and  his wife  "Mary" had  a large  plantation on  
  Looney creek  in  Hardy county  Virginia.  They  had eight  
  children listed in the  will dated May,  1788. Their third  
  child was Alexander  (1760-1844) and  his wife's  name was  
  Mary, and they had seven children.  I don't have very much  
  information about Alexander Sr. He inherited land in 1790,  
  under the terms  of his fathers  will. He  must have moved  
  shortly after  this date,  as  Alexander Jr.  was  born in  
  Kentucky in 1792. This family  moved to near Dayton, Ohio,  
  in 1802.
  
  Alexander Jr's. older brother, John, got religion at a young 
  age and became a minister. It rubbed off onto Alexander Jr. 
  as he became very  religious and was  an "exhorter" in the  
  church. These boys grew  to manhood in  Kentucky, and they  
  lived in Delaware  county, Indiana  before coming  to Cass  
  county in 1828. They were  among the first settlers there.  
  In the fall of 1833, Alexander Jr. moved to Burnettesville  
  and spent the rest of his life in this area. Alexander Jr. 
  was in the war of 1812, having enlisted three times and was 
  drafted once.
  
  Alexander Jr. married Margaret Magrew in 1817 and she died  
  that same year, he  then married Unity  Watt in 1820. Miss  
  Watt was born  in North Carolina  and was  raised at Eaton  
  Ohio. Her family, later moved  to Cass county, Indiana and  
  then to Dayton, Ohio, where William  Watt died. They had a  
  family of nine chidren, Caleb, the oldest was a doctor. He  
  had 16 children from  3 different wives  and lived all his  
  life in this same area.
  
  Our ancestor Elisha was the second child in this family. 
  There was very little about him in the Scott history.