When Eliza Jane Scott was born on 13 October 1843, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States, her father, Hyrum Scott, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth L Hopewell, was 22. She married George Wesley Ruddell on 24 November 1861, in Crawford, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Hamilton Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 26 May 1919, in Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Center Ridge Cemetery, Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana, United States.
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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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