Eliza (Locklear) Scott (abt. 1833 - 1903)

Born about 1833 in North Carolina, United States

Died Jan 1903 at about age 70 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Eliza (Locklear) Scott is a part of US Black heritage.

Eliza Locklear was born in February^[1] about 1831^[2]-1833^[3] in North Carolina^[3][2][1]. She was the wife^[3][2] and widow^[1] of John Scott, and the grandmother^[1] of artist William Eduoard Scott.

Occupations

• 1900^[1]: Manager
• 1870^[2]: Laundress

Residences

• 1903: 1110 Senate Street, Indianapolis, Indiana (widowed)^[4]
• 1900: 1110 North Street, Indianapolis, Indiana with her grandchild William Eduoard Scott^[1]
• 1870: Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband John, their children, and 23-year-old Frank Johnson^[2]
• 1860: Centre North, Marion County, Indiana (post office: Indianapolis) with her husband John, their children, and 12-year-old Frank Johnson^[3]
• 1851: North Carolina^[5]

[ Arthur Locklear ] then started a movement to come north. There were about twenty-six or twenty-eight men and women, who had the same thoughts about their children, banded together, and in 1852 they started for somewhere, North.

The people selected, had to be loyal to the cause of their children's future lives, morally clean, truthful, and hard-working.

Some had oxen, some had carts. They pooled all of their scant belongings, and started on their long hard journey.

The women and children rode in the ox-carts, the men walked. They would travel a few days, then stop on the roadside to rest. The women would wash their few clothes, cook enough food to last a few days more, then they would start out again. They were six weeks making the trip.

Some settled in Madison, Indiana. Two brothers and their families went on to Ohio, and the rest came to Indianapolis.^[5]

Content warning: torture / forced illiteracy

The thing these early settlers wanted most, was for their children to learn to read and write. So many of them had been caught trying to learn to write, and had had their thumbs mashed, so they would not be able to hold a pencil.^[5]

Race

• 1860^[3], 1900^[1]: Black
• 1903^[4]: Colored
• 1870^[2]: Mulatto

Death

She passed away in 1903 and is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.^[4][6]

Research Notes

Raymoure-1 03:07, 12 September 2020 (UTC): Possible sister of Arthur Locklear? Although Arthur's daughter Lizzie speaks about John Scott without referring to him as an uncle.

Raymoure-1 05:51, 12 September 2020 (UTC): No evidence in the narratives of Mrs. Lizzie Johnson that Eliza was enslaved before their departure from North Carolina. Haven't been able to find her in the 1850 federal census, though. More research needed.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} 1900 federal census
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} 1870 federal census
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} 1860 federal census
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Indiana death certificate
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Indiana Slave Narratives, pp. 113-115
6. ↑ Find a Grave memorial

• 1860 United States Federal Census Year: 1860; Census Place: Centre North part, Marion, Indiana; Page: 767; Family History Library Film: 803280
• 1870 United States Federal Census Year: 1870; Census Place: Indianapolis Ward 3 (2nd Enum), Marion, Indiana; Roll: M593_338; Page: 147A; Family History Library Film: 545837
• 1900 United States Federal Census Year: 1900; Census Place: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana; Page: 6; Enumeration District: 0060; FHL microfilm: 1240388
• The Federal Writers' Project. Indiana Slave Narratives 1936-1938: A Folk History of Slavery in Indiana from Interviews with Former Slaves. Bedford, Massachusetts: Applewood Books.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #46011940
• Indiana Archives and Records Administration. Death Certificates; Year: 1903; Roll: 08. Indianapolis, Indiana.