Susannah (Gillham) Scott (abt. 1745 - aft. 1818)

Born about 1745 in Augusta County, Virginia Colony

Ancestors

Wife of James Franklin Kirkpatrick — married about 1764 in York County, South Carolina

Wife of Joseph Scott — married about 1783 in South Carolina, United States of America

Descendants

Died after 1818 after about age 73 in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States of America

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Biography

"After being away from his (James F Kirkpatrick) home, in the army of the revolution for months, he obtained permission to visit his family which, on account of Toryism, he had to do by stealth. He had been home but a few minutes when, sitting upon his wife's knees, surrounded by his children, he was shot and killed by a Tory named Pruitt, who fired through a window. "

Death

AFT 1818 Sangamon Co., IL ^[1]

Research Notes

Susannah's second husband, Joseph Scott appears in the tax list 1798 Jackson Co, GA in Capt. Thomas Kirkpatrick (Susannah's son?) company, owning land on Curry's Creek adjoining McCutcher. In 1801, Joseph Scott appears in Jackson Co, GA tax list in Capt Shield's Dist. In 1809 in Capt David McClesky's Dist. (Not certain if Joseph is leasing land to Thos Carson, or from Thos Carson in these documents).

Sources

1. ↑ A Kirkpatrick Genealogy - The family of James Kirkpatrick of SC by Melvin Kirkpatrick and David Hudson

• Gillham, W. Clark, "The Family of Thomas Gillham", DGS 7969314, (Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986), [Original source: Gillham, W. Clark, "The Family of Thomas Gillham", (Benton, KY: W. Clark Gillham, 1975)], pp. 9, 51

• Brink, W.R., "History of Madison County Illinois, Illustrated, with Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers", (Edwardsville, Ill.: W.R. Brink & Co., 1882), p. 75