When Nancy Scott was born on 9 August 1809, in Huntington Township, Brown, Ohio, United States, her father, John Scott, was 45 and her mother, Jane Taylor, was 33. She married Peter Cooper in 1829, in Brown, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Manchester Township, Adams, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Magisterial District 1, Lewis, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 7 August 1902, in Vanceburg, Lewis, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Fairmont Cemetery, Concord, Lewis, Kentucky, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
BROWN COUNTY This sub-division of the state was formed from Adams and Clermont, March 1, 1817, and named for Gen. Jacob Brown, a gallant officer in the War of 1812.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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