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Allen is loc ated in the 1850 District 14, Decatur County, Iowa census.
Allen Scott 38 m KY .
Rachel Scott 30 f IN.
Bryson Scott 12 m IL.
John R Scott 10 m MO.
Susanna Scott 8 f IA.
Allen Scott 5 m IA.
Mary E Scott 1 f IA.
Bennett Banton 28 m VA.
Andrew Scott 17 m IN.
George W McDonald 30 m VA.

Allen is located in t he 1856, State Census; Hamilton Twp., Decatur County, Iowa listed is his wife , and 8 children. also in household is George W McDaniel and Andrew J Scott born indiana age 21.
Allen Scott 45 m Kentucky ( been in Decatur Co., 16 years )
Rachel Scott 35 f Indiana ( been in Decatur Co., 16 years )
Brison Scott 19 m Illinois ( been in Decatur Co., 16 years )
John R Scott 17 m Missouri ( been in Decatur Co., 16 years )
Susan Scott 14 f Iowa ( been in Decatur Co., 14 yea rs )
Allen jr. Scott 9 m Iowa ( been in Decatur Co., 9 years )
Mary Scott 7 f Iowa ( been in Decatur Co., 7 years )
Francis Scott 5 m Iowa ( been in Decatu r Co., 5 years )
Bennett Scott 3 m Iowa ( been in Decatur Co., 3 years )
Calvin Scott 0 m Iowa ( been in Decatur Co., 0 years )
George W McDaniel 37 m Virginia ( been in Decatur Co., 3 years )
Bennett Banton 34 m Virginia ( been in Decatur Co., 10 years )
Andrew J Scott 21 m Indiana ( been in Decatur Co., 14 years )
(( going by known errors but looking at Andrew Scott being 21 and have only been in Iowa 14 years. making him at age 7 when he arrived. would assume he is not a son of Allen's but a nephew or cusin. possibly a younger brother. however that is unlikley.

he is listed in 1860 Census for. Hamilton township , Nine Eagles post office, Decatur Co., Iowa. with an outstanding wealth enumer ated for holdings. 16,640 dollars in property and 4,845 dollars in personal wea lth.
Allen Scott 49 m 16,640 / 4,845 Kentucky
Rachel Scott 39 f Indiana
Allen Scott 13 m Iowa
Mary E Scott 10 f Iowa
Francis Scott 7 m Iowa
Bennett Scott 5 m Iowa
Calvin Scott 3 m Iowa << error should read Charles
Bennett Banten? 38 m Virginia
Brison Scott 23 m Illinois
Carolina Scott 14 f Wisconsin
Caroline was the wife of Brison.

( living next door is Allen's son John R Scott and his family. )


Allen is located in 1870 Pleasonton post office, Hamilton Township, Decatur Co., Iowa
Allen Scott 56 m Farmer 4 ,500/ 1,206 Kentucky
Rachel Scott 51 f keep House Indiana
Allen Scott 23 m Farm Laborer Iowa
Frank Scott 20 m Farm Laborer Iowa
Bennett Scott 18 m Farm Laborer Iowa
Charlie Scott 15 m Farm Laborer Iowa
Andrew Scott 6 m Iowa
Brison Miller 82 m At Home Virginia
Mary M Miller 76 f At Home Virginia
Lucinda Balp? 10 f Iowa

Allen Scott, had a total of 80 acres in Jackson Co., Indiana. and very close by is future second wife's father in 1838 Brison Mille r and his family. includeing Rachel Miller. Allen's land pattens.
Aliquot Part s Sec./ Block Township Range Fract. Section Meridian State Counties Survey Nr.
NWSE 7/ 6-N 4-E No 2nd PM IN Jackson 40 acres 09/21/1835
Aliquot Pa rts Sec./ Block Township Range Fract. Section Meridian State Counties Survey Nr .
SWSW 7/ 6-N 4-E No 2nd PM IN Jackson 40 acres 09/09/1835

In 1880 the last census we find Allen in. lists bolth parents born Kentucky. we see by his wife's listings that this contains errors. located in 1880 in Hamilton township, Pleasonton post office, Decatur Co., Iowa. Also listed is his wife's aunt Jane Burrell.

Census Place: Decatur, Decatur, Iowa 1880
Source: FHL Film 1254336 National Archives Film T9-0336 Page 215C
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Allen SCOTT Self M M W 68 KY
Occ: Farmer Fa: KY Mo: KY
Rachel SCOTT Wife F M W 59 IN
Occ: Keeping House Fa: OH Mo: OH
Allen SCOTT Son M D W 29 IA
Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: KY Mo: IN
Andrew G SCOTT


Allan Scott's success was based on an economy that no longer existed after
the Civil War. Family and friends still gathered at his place for Sunday
dinners, but his possessions grew less each year. The post office has been moved
to Pleasanton, the mill was closed, there were no Indians to come to a
trading post nor immigrants taking that route west to whom to sell supplies. The
place that had once been home to twenty-five or thirty people lived chiefly in
the memories of an old man who loved to tell stories and a wife who was still a
good cook. His biography is not even included in the 1885 publication, but
Mrs. Kellogg's history does tell of her visit with the Scotts.


( Obituary )
The Davis City Advance, Davis City, Iowa
Thursday, December 26, l895

ALLEN SCOTT was born in Indiana in 1811 and came to Iowa in 1836. Iowa was then a wilderness and MR. SCOTT built for himself and wife a log house on what is now the Beach Farm, and began trading with the Sioux and Pottowatamie Indians. He became expert at speaking their language and adopted some of their ways. He took a claim and besides purchased land, and at one time owned 1,900 acres of the fertile Grand River bottom land between Decatur City and Pleasanton.

In 1836 and '37 MR. SCOTT's nearest neighbor resided a distance of seven miles and the nearest grist mill, which was a crude affair, was at Princeton, Mo.

After twelve years trading among the Indians, MR. SCOTT went into the cattle business on a large scale, at this he did not make a success as he was somewhat careless in his management and lost as much as $20,000 worth of stock, by selling to dishonest men and accepting notes with poor security. He left Decatur County in l885 and moved his family to Bethany, Missouri, and in l889 moved to Ozark County, where he died Dec. 13, l895, aged 84 years.

MR. SCOTT was the father of eleven children, seven of whom are still living, DICK and FRANK SCOTT being our fellow townsmen.

Thus one by one our pioneer settlers are leaving us. They dared to face death in many forms for a home, and fortune, and may well be classed the "bravest of the brave."

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On Sugar Creek they prospered exceedingly and were able in a short time to bring to this county, besides their teams and household goods, three cows and forty hogs The grass lay on the ground shoemouth deep and the hogs, having a range of several miles undisturbed on the Grand River bottom, were a constantly increasing source of revenue. He always had pork and lard to sell to immigrants and settlers in the county besides selling to the Indians who wintered here. They paid cash when they had it and when they had none their credit was good to the amount of their annuity. They also received from the government groceries and dry goods which they made a practice of swapping for the products of the farm. Scott went with them to draw their annuities, the Sacs receiving theirs at Fort Des Moines, the Pottawatamies at Council Bluffs. He traded with the Indians for ten years. He raised great crops of corn, potatoes, turnips, squashes, pumpkins, all of which he sold for cash or goods at reduced rates. The first crop was raised without a fence around it , there being nothing but his own stock to bother it and they of course had to be herded.

Honey was so abundant for several years that it was worth only two or three cents a pound. Plums and crab apples were the principal fruits but strawberries and blackberries came in after cattle and hogs began to range through the woods and hazelbrush. .

In 1846 Scott was able to set up a store, blacksmith shop and horse mill. There was about this time a few families who settled in Goshen, Missouri, twenty miles south; the nearest east were on Soap Creek about eighty miles, while north and west there were absolutely no white people except in forts, nearer than the British Possessions or the Sea Coast. Scott was indicted in Grundy County, Missouri, for selling liquor to the Indians; the penalty being three hundred dollars fine and five years imprisonment. To escape this he employed the county surveyors of Grundy and Davis Counties to run their line and see which county he was in. The line proved to be one-half mile east of him throwing him in Davis County which cleared him from the indictment on a question of jurisdiction; the cost of the transaction being three hundred dollars equaling the amount of the fine but releasing him from the five years' imprisonment.


He had paid taxes in Gallatin, Davis County, Missouri three years when the county was divided and Harrison was organized. In Harrison County he paid taxes until the State Line was permanently located in 1849, since which time he paid taxes in Decatur County, making four counties and two states in which he performed the duties of a citizen and householder without change of residence.

When Scott came to this county there was no road across the territory and he reached his present location by a circuitous route from the eastern part of the territory of Iowa going south into Missouri,. thence west. He has never had a shake of ague and there but three deaths have occurred in his house, although his family at one time numbered thirty-six persons, old and young, and has always been large until within a few years past Brinson Miller, Mrs. Scott's father died there, aged 86, and an infant son, George Washington Scott, aged thirteen months, and also a bright little daughter--scalded.


A tragical scene occurred at Teree Haute in the west part of the County in 1849, of which the following account was given me by Allen Scott. Two young men named Faulkner kept a trading house there and one day an Indian, whose brain crazed by liquor, came to the door, and finding it barred against him, placed his butcher knife through. opened it, and entering, made a thrust at the proprietor who seized a neck-yoke and felled him to the floor, when Alex, his brother, beat him with a maul. He was a young brave, the son of a chief, and, dreading the vengeance of the Indians, the Faulkners made their escape into Grundy County, Mo. and their father and brother-in-law came to look after their effects. The

Indians immediately took them into custody and were about to shoot them on the spot, but they appeased them by promising that the Faulkners should be brought the next day and given up to them. They, however, never made their appearance. Old Dr. Thompson of Trenton, Mo had been sent for immediately after the terrible encounter, but the distance being about sixty miles mortification had set in before he arrived. He pronounced the skull broken and said he could not live. Life for life is the unalterable law of the Indians. but as the guilty had escaped and the fury of their revenge had been for the time being restrained from falling upon the innocent, the chief and Mr. Faulkner sent an urgent request to Mr. Scott to come, he being an old friend of the Indians, and see if anything could be done to settle it. He refused to go.

Finally the old chief himself came and he went with him home There lay the poor your brave--one of his eyes burst out, and otherwise terribly mangled The father of the murderers and Wm. Perry, the brother-in-law, were compelled to sit by him night and day and look at him, while ten young braves, painted black and fully armed. sat around them in the wigwam keeping guard..

Said Mr. Scott: "The two prisoners were exceedingly pleased when they saw me. They told me if I could get them released on any terms, for God's sake to do it. I still declined to go into the council and asked them to get some other man, but they would have no other. "

"Accordingly, I inquired of the Indians what they intended to do with the men. They said 'Our law is the life for life'. If they would produce the murderers, they would release them--failing in that they held them responsible for the murder. Turning to Faulkner, I asked what I should say to them. Said he, 'If you make any compromise with them, do if it takes everything I have on earth to save our. lives'. There was a wigwam prepared for council and myself, ten braves and an interpretor entered that wigwam, strongly guarded by Indians. We commenced in the morning and the council lasted until the evening of the next day. . I told them that the way they wanted to do would not answer. They were in the United States, and would have to be tried by our law. If they took their own course, the whites would raise an army and kill them all off. I promised that the law should be put in force the same as if a white man had been killed. I first offered them all that the Faulkners had there, telling them that would do them more good than the murderers. They would be worth nothing to them while the property would be a benefit to the young brave's wife. After long persuasion I got them into a compromise. The goods amounted to about three hundred dollars. With this they were not satisfied, but wanted to have two horses back that they had sold to the Faulkners. I got them the horses. Finally they expressed themselves satisfied. The prisoners were released, and when I told them what I had done, they were well satisfied. We then went down to McDaniels' and got our dinner. I told Faulkners and Perry now to leave--in a hurry. and in about two hours I would unlock the house and give them possession of the property. I did so and delivered the goods and groceries to them, then rolled out a barrel of whiskey to them. They knocked the head in, and all went to drinking. In about twenty minutes four braves sprang upon their horses and started in pursuit of the fugitives. They followed them about twenty miles into Missouri and came very near overtaking them. The young men who committed the crime ran away and went to Indiana. After two years they returned and father and sons went to California. Masco, the Indian, was buried in the McDaniels' dooryard, a mile from Terre Haute. At this time we were in Davis County, Missouri. Edward Winkles, John Bennett and myself were summoned before the grand jury and indictment was found against the two Faulkners. but they were never brought to Justice."

• Married: 13 Oct 1831 in Jackson Co., Indiana ¹
• Note: The marriage application was 10/08/1831 and the actual marriage was 10/13/1831.
• Change Date: 21 Jan 2005

1. Theresa SCOTT b: in Jackson Co., Indiana
2. Tabitha Anne SCOTT b: 22 Feb 1834 in Scott Co., Indiana
3. John Ross ( Sr ) SCOTT b: 1837 ( about ) in Missouri
4. Brison T SCOTT b: 1838 in Illinois
5. Susanna SCOTT b: Jun 1841 in Decatur Co., Iowa

• Married: 20 Apr 1844 in Grundy Co., Missouri
• Change Date: 1 Sep 2004

1. Allen ( Junior ) SCOTT b: 1845 ( about ) in Iowa
2. Mary Elizabeth SCOTT b: 1849 ( about ) in Decatur Co., Iowa
3. Francis ( Frank ) Marion SCOTT b: 28 Jun 1852 in Davis City, Decatur Co., Iowa
4. Bennett Pone ( Dick ) SCOTT b: 5 May 1853 in Decatur Co., Iowa
5. Charles Calvin SCOTT b: 8 Jan 1856 in Decatur Co., Iowa
6. George Washington SCOTT b: 5 May 1858 in Decatur Co., Iowa
7. Andrew Gilwick SCOTT b: 12 Feb 1864 in Decatur Co., Iowa

1. Abbrev: Indiana state marriage index through 1850
   Title: Indiana State Library Geneaology Division
   Date: 7 May 1910