Brief Life History of John Harris
When John Harris Scott was born in 1826, in Lincoln, Tennessee, United States, his father, Wilson Andrew Scott, was 26 and his mother, Althenia Elizabeth Harris, was 15. He married Mary Ann Chiser on 1 May 1851, in Lincoln, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died after 1880, in Tennessee, United States.
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- Jno H Scott, "United States Census, 1870"
- John H Scott, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- John H Scott, "United States Census, 1880"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish (Down): habitational and ethnic name from Middle English Scot ‘man from Scotland’. There is no evidence that the surname denoted either of the earlier senses of Scot as ‘(Gaelic-speaking) Irishman’ or ‘man from Alba’, the Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland north of the river Forth. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English and Scottish: from the rare Middle English personal name Scot (Old English Scott, possibly also Old Norse Skotr), only certainly attested in northern England.
English: variant of Scutt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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