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Male 1799 - 1859  (60 years)


 

Scott-Kirkland - John Scott and Nancy Kirkland - Brief bio



John and Nancy (Kirkland) Scott came to Texas from Alabama with other family members, including daughter Eliza Scott and her husband David Sholar. Family Bible records have them crossing the border at Bethany, between Shreveport and Carthage, in 1846. 

The Scott and Sholar families settled in the Eagle Mills community, originally known as "Sholar." David Sholar donated land for the Sholar Cemetery and Truitt's Chapel. The cemetery began in 1854 with the deaths of six cousins, ages 1 to 10, including Eliza and David Sholar's children Nancy, age 8, and Edward, 1; Eliza's little brother, James Scott, 9; and two children of Eliza's sister, Ethalinda Scott Whiddon. 

David Sholar was active in Newburn Masonic Lodge by 1854, Truitt Lodge in 1857, and Sam Samford Lodge in 1869. His son David Sholar was a County Commissioner, and was appointed postmaster of Sholar in 1901. The Scotts and Sholars intermarried with other early settlers in the area, and many continue to live in Shelby County today.

Lanette Hill, comp., The Kirkland Family Genealogy & History, Brightwell Enterprises, 2006.
Caleb Kirkland Family Bible, possession of Alice Kirkland Allen.
Lannie G Walker, "J J and M E Scott, Shelby County Historical Commission, History of Shelby County, Texas, Curtis Media Corporation: 1988, p. 773.
Winnie Savage Smith, Sholar-Scott Families, Shelby Co Hist Comm, History of Shelby County, Texas, p. 775.
Eliza Sholar Scott, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Ancestor.
John Scott, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Ancestor.
David Sholar, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Ancestor.
Texas Historical Marker, Sholar Cemetery, Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas.
William Parmer and J B Sanders, Freemasonry in Shelby County, Texas, 1846-1900, pp. 46, 48, 72.


TX000062 has many DNA matches with Scott and Sholar descendants, and is related to almost everyone buried in Sholar Cemetery, Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas. Ida Harris Savage grew up on her father's land, just down the road from the cemetery. The matrilineal line of TX000062 is TX9900096 to Ida Harris to Susan Elizabeth Sholar to Eliza Scott to Nancy Kirkland. The haplogroup is H5a1.

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