When Lafayette W Scott was born in 1846, in Ohio, United States, his father, Daniel Scott, was 25 and his mother, Susannah Pletcher, was 20. He married Charlotte Shoup on 17 January 1869, in LaGrange, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Clinton Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States for about 30 years and Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 May 1931, in Middlebury Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Forest Grove Cemetery, Middlebury, Middlebury Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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