Catahoula County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Scott, Samuel Charles 1816 - October 15, 1862 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Julia Scott julscott@windstream.net June 21, 2009, 3:22 pm Author: Julia A. Scott Samuel Charles Scott Biography Julia A. Scott Source: Research and old family letters Author: Julia A. Scott Samuel Charles Scott Concordia Parish 1850 - 1862 Samuel Charles Scott was born in Norfolk, Virginia, 1818 to Marie Antoinette Carlin Scott and her husband whose surname was Scott and who was Scottish. Prior to 1840 he married Elizabeth M. Belsinger, daughter of Sarah Harmon and Henry Belsinger (married Jan 30, 1808 per Natchez Marriage Book). Their daughter Sarah E. Scott was born 1840 and in 1842 Mary was born. This marriage ended in divorce (date unknown). Sarah Harmon Belsinger died in 1875 (82 years old) and is buried in the Natchez City Cemetery between the two graves of her children - C. H. Belsinger (1814 to 1874) and Elizabeth M. Scott (October 27, 1817 - May 12, 1907). It appears Elizabeth never married again after her divorce from Samuel C. Scott. Samuel Scott enlisted July 30, 1846, in the Phoenix Company, Louisiana Volunteers, First Sergeant and fought in the Mexican War in Battles of Monterey and Vera Cruz and paperwork states that he distinguished himself for his daring conduct. His commander was Captain A. G. Blanchard. Samuel Scott was promoted to Second Lieutenant on April 12, 1847, at Vera Cruz, Mexico. His paperwork for this promotion gives his description as 5 ft 7 inches tall with black hair, hazel eyes, and dark complexion. This paperwork also states that he was born in Norfolk, Virginia and is 29 years old which would puts his date of birth in the year 1818. He served his full term and was mustered out as a Lieutenant. Samuel Charles Scott arrived in the Concordia Parish region of Louisiana prior to 1850. He settled in the Black River area around 1850. He did not appear on the Louisiana 1840 Census. In the 1850 Census for Concordia, Samuel Scott was listed as 32 years old, a merchant born in Virginia. In 1851 Sam married Margaret Watson, daughter of Elizabeth Watson. Margaret died 25 March 1852. She is buried in the Scott Cemetery in Monterey, La. Her headstone reads, "Margaret Scott - no birth date - 03/25/1852 - Age 19 yrs - W/O Samuel C. Scott". The 1850 Concordia Census indicates Margaret (17 years old) had four siblings, William S. (19), Susan (13), W. G. (24), and a brother 10 years old listed with the initial G. Her Mother Elizabeth (45) was head of household. The 1860 Catahoula Census lists W. G. Watson in Tensas community where he was overseer. Margaret and Samuel Scott had one child, a boy born in 1852 and died approximately 1857. No name has been found for this baby boy and there is no record of where he is buried. Oct 28, 1853, Samuel C. Scott and Susan J. Watson were married in Concordia Parish. Sam and Susan had 3 children. Mary Virginia born 25 Aug, 1855, and Alice born Dec 1856. Their third child was a son and was born 18 Aug, 1862 - Samuel Charles Scott, Jr. Concordia 1860 Census 9th Ward lists S. C. Scott 42, S. J. Scott 26 (Susan), M. V. Scott 6 (Mary Virginia) and A. Scott 5(Alice). Census place was Trinity for 8th and 9th wards. Sam Scott was a merchant and his real estate valued at $13,000 with personal property valued at $34,000. In both the 1850 census and 1860 census (Concordia) Sam lists his place of birth as Virginia. Mary Virginia married James P. Fitzgerald. They had four children.a son Leonard born Feb 1881, a son Charles Walter born May 1877, a daughter Olie born July 1879, and another son Samuel Scott Fitzgerald born 5 Nov 1889. Leonard settled in the Lake Arthur area. Olie married Will Beard and had at least one child, a daughter, Bill Beard, who lived in Ferriday, Louisiana. Mary Virgina Fitzgerald,age of 79 years - 9 months and 9 days - died 7 June 1935. She was buried in Reeves County, Pecos, Texas. Her death certificate lists father as Sam Scott and mother as Susan Watson. Her son, Samuel Scott Fitzgerald, died in Texas at the age of 96. Sam's U. S. Draft registration lists him as a pharmacist living in Reeves County Texas. A letter from his daughter, Olga, indicates Sam had two children - Douglas and Olga. Charles Walter settled in Reeves County Texas. Mary Virginia, as she grew older, stayed a few months each year with each of her children. The second daughter, Alice, married William T. Carkeet and had one daughter Annie. Alice and her daughter were living with Alice's Mother,Susan Scott Plummer, and her brother Wilber Plummer, according to the data from the 1900 Catahoula Parish Census. Annie married John M. Lawrence and is buried in Lawrence Cemetery in Parhams, Louisiana in Concordia, Louisiana. Annie and John had 13 children and raised 10 to adulthood. Sam's only son, Samuel Charles Scott, Jr. was born 18 Aug 1862 two months before the death of his father in Jessamine County, Nicholasville, Kentucky. In 1965 Susan Jane Watson Scott married Alfonso Plummer and Samuel Charles Scott was raised with his half-brothers Edward S. Plummer (called Ned), Robert Plummer and Wilber Plummer. Sam Jr. and Ned remained close and Ned was a witness at Sam's marriage to Julia Elizabeth Dabbs in 1889 in Ouachita Parish, Monroe, Louisiana. Samuel Charles Scott,Sr. enlisted in the Civil War at Monterey, Louisiana, on March 28, 1862, leaving behind a pregnant wife, Susan, and two small daughters. Sam died on 15 Oct 1862 in Camp Nelson hospital, Jessamine County Kentucky. He was buried in Camp Nelson Federal Cemetery but was later moved by a Confederate Doctor and the men of Nicholasville to Maple Grove Cemetery, Nicholasville, Kentucky in Jessamine County. Samuel C. Scott was in Company C, 25th Louisiana Infantry. He was elected Captain on March 18, 1862. After the Civil War Battle at Corinth, Mississippi, the 25th Infantry and Captain Sam moved on to Tupelo, Mississippi. In Tupelo, Captain Sam wrote a long two page letter to Mrs. Mary Cotton in Catahoula Parish telling her of the death of her brother John F. Gibson who was wounded, died and was burried in Corinth on May 21, 1962. Captain Sam lost his best friend who was his wife's only surviving brother in this battle at Corinth. The following is from his letter: "On the day previous to the evacuation of Corinth I was compelled to send my Brother in Law to the Rail Road Depot, he stayed on the platform that whole day and night, he with many others of the sick were thus left, many of them died from the exposure and I regret to say he also died from the same cause, he was my Wife's only surviving brother and my "best friend". You will naturally ask why I was not with him to aid and assist him, my answer is, every well man of my Company as well as myself were on Out Post duty covering the retreat of our Army from Corinth, those at home can never know one tithe of the suffering of those in the field in this unhappy war." Susan Watson Scott's brother W. G. Watson was probably the brother who died at Corinth. W. G. was 24 years old on the 1840 Census Concordia Parish where he listed his profession as rafting and birth place as Louisiana. Booth's Records of Confederate Soldiers has the following listing for W. G. Watson: "Watson, W. G., Pvt. Co. C, 25th La. Inf. En. Monterey, La., March 18, 186-. Roll dated April 2, 1862, Present. Roll May and June, 1862, Died May 30, _. John F. Gibson died on May 21, 1962. Captain Sam in his letter told Mary to go to Dr. May's on Black River and to talk to Mr. Tenison who was in camp when John Gibson died and attended to his buriel. Civil War Records list a Leonard C. Tenision in 25th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry. Mary Ann Holmes was married to Dr. G.B. May of Black River. After her death, he married Julia Elizabeth Beard, and after her death in 1874, Dr. May married Clara Amanda Wilmoth. In Booth's Records of Confederate Soldiers he lists Tennison: "Tenison, Leonard C., Pvt. 2nd Lt. Co. C, 25th La. Inf. En. Monterey, La., March 18, 186-. Roll dated April 2, 1862, Present. Roll May and June, 1862, Absent, on sick furlough. Regtl. Return for Aug., 1862, Deserted and dropped from the Rolls. On Roster dated March -, 1865, En. Into Confederate Service, March 18, 1862. Elected 2nd Lt., March 18, 1862, Deserted June 5, 1862. Successor Thomas McLane. Official Rolls Paroled Officers, C. S. A., Paroled Shreveport, La., June 21, 1865, as 2nd Lt., 3rd La. Cav. Co. I, Tenison, L. C. From Captain Scott's letter written July 10, 1862, it would appear that Tenison was in Black River around June of 1862 and Captain Scott knew of his location. Deserted June 5, 1862 seems to be in error. Tenison enlisted in Monterey, La. on March 18, 1862 (the same day W. G. Watson enlisted in Monterey); Captain Scott enlisted in Monterey, La. on March 28, 1862. A Confederate Pension was granted in the name of Leonard C. Tenison to Helen Josephine Baliff Tenison of Bienville Parish. From Tupelo the 25th Infantry went Northwest and too part in the Battle of Perryville in Kentucky. The Perryville, Kentucky, Website contains the following information on the battle: "Such obstinate fighting I never had seen before or since," wrote Confederate Private Sam Watkins on the Battle of Perryville. "The guns were discharged so rapidly that it seemed the earth itself was in a volcanic uproar. The iron storm passed through our ranks, mangling and tearing men to pieces… Our men were dead and dying right in the very midst of this grand havoc of battle." "On October 8, 1862, Watkins and 18,000 Confederates clashed with 20,000 Union troops on the hills outside of Perryville. Nearly 7,500 soldiers were killed and wounded in Kentucky’s largest Civil War battle. The Confederate failure to attain a decisive victory kept Kentucky in Union hands for the remainder of the war, stands as the High Water Mark of the Confederacy in the Western Theater, and marked the last major incursion of Confederate forces into the Commonwealth of Kentucky." The date of Captain Samuel Charles Scott in Nicholasville, Kentucky, and the date of this battle at Perryville would indicate that he was wounded in the battle and taken to the Union Hospital Camp Nelson in Jessamine County where he later died. In 1862, Dr. Charles Mann, a surgeon in the Confederate army was ordered to gather and care for the sick and wounded left at Camp Dick Robinson. About eighty of these he brought to Nicholasville and they were cared for by the ladies of the town. Those who died were buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in a section donated by the Cemetery. After the war, Dr.Mann, with the aid of townspeople, gathered other Confederate dead, including those who had been buried in the Federal cemetery at Camp Nelson and reburied them in the cemetery at Nicholsaville. Samuel Scott was listed as buried in the Federal cemetery, according to their records. The Maple Grove Cemetery survey has not been completed, but Louisiana records indicate Samuel Scott is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery. The records of Maple Grove Cemetery prove that Captain Samuel Scott is buried there in Section C # 336. The town of Nicholasville, many years later, erected a monument to honor these dead. Samuel Scott, Louisiana, is listed on this monument. Its a fascinating story and anyone interested should visit the Jessamine County, Nicholasville, Kentucky, web site. A quote from their website "The Handsomest public monument in Jessamine County is that erected by the Jessamine Confederate Memorial Association, to the Confederates buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Nicholasville." His son ,Samuel C. Scott, Jr. , was married on 4 March 1889 to Julia Elizabeth Dabbs who was born on August 22 1869. They had 8 children, including two who were named Samuel Charles Scott. Samuel Charles Scott (1st) was a twin to Margurite Virginia Scott. They were born 11 Jun 1895. Sam (1st) died 21 Sept 1896 age 15 months 6 days. His sister Margurite died 22 Jan 1911 age 15 years 6 months 11 days. Three other children died at a very young age; Mary Adelia Scott "Decie" 10 years 2 months 5 days, Matias Grady Scott 1 year 7 months 11 days and Muse Dabbs Scott 2 years 4 months 17 days. Sam Scott Jr probably worked in the farming industry. Their children were born on Bay Plantation, ElDorado Planatation, Port Union, Monroe and Mer Rouge as documented in the family Bible. Julia's Mother, Mary Olivia Collett Dabbs died at Port Union just before the birth of her granddaughter Mary Olivia (at Port Union) the only surviving daughter of Sam and Julia Scott. Three of their children survived to live to adulthood: Mary Olivia Scott (known as Sister to the family) was born at Port Union, Union Parish Lousiana. She attended Mansfield State Normal School, Mansfield, Louisana, approximately, 1911. She graduated with a teaching certificate and dedicated her life to teaching English in St Joseph, Louisiana until her death. Samuel Charles Scott, born on Island DeSiard, Ouachia Parish, Louisiana was a longtime resident of Fairbanks, La. He married Dollie Breard Vaughn and lived the remainder of his life in Monroe, Louisiana. He had no children. Sam is buried in St. Matthews Catholic Cemetery with his Great Grandmother Julia Washington Dabbs, his Mother and Father, and his brothers and sisters. Edward Starsney Scott was born in Mer Rouge, Louisian and is buried at Hickory Grove Cemetery South of Crossett Arkansas. He lived his life in Fairbanks, Louisiana. He was a graduate of Ouachita Parish High School and a friend to many. His nickname was "Stormy" and family verbal history says his Father gave him that name because of the stormy night on wich he was born. He was the youngest child of Samuel C. Scott, Jr. and Julia Elizabeth Dabbs. Starsney was active in sports at Ouachita and after graduating worked for Columbian Carbon Gas Company in Fairbanks where they were drilling for natural gas. His brother Sam also worked for Columbian Carbon. Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/catahoula/photos/bios/scott160gbs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/catahoula/bios/scott160gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 14.8 Kb