"Samuel Scott settled on the north side of Deepwater creek in 1834, and was appointed sheriff of the new county of Vernon when it was established in 1852, but the organization of Vernon county being afterward declared invalid, he lost his office. He went to Linn county, Kansas, in 1854, was elected by the proslavery party to the Territorial Legislature, and was killed by a band of guerillas in 1859,..."
Source: Atkeson, W.O. History of Bates County Missouri. Topeka, Historial Publishing Company, 1918, Pg. 272.
"How Bloody Was Bleeding Kansas? Political Killings in Kansas Territory, 1854-1861" By Dale E. Watts. Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. Summer 1995. Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 129.
#56 Samuel Scott (proslavery)
Killed by a party of Charles Jennison's men (antislavery)
November 18, 1860, Linn County
Hanged because he was a member of the first territorial legislature, had harbored proslavery raiders, and had returned to Kansas Territory after having been expelled twice...
Information from Dolores J. Rush
Source: Atkeson, W.O. History of Bates County Missouri. Topeka, Historial Publishing Company, 1918, Pg. 272.
"How Bloody Was Bleeding Kansas? Political Killings in Kansas Territory, 1854-1861" By Dale E. Watts. Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. Summer 1995. Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 129.
#56 Samuel Scott (proslavery)
Killed by a party of Charles Jennison's men (antislavery)
November 18, 1860, Linn County
Hanged because he was a member of the first territorial legislature, had harbored proslavery raiders, and had returned to Kansas Territory after having been expelled twice...
Information from Dolores J. Rush
"Samuel Scott settled on the north side of Deepwater creek in 1834, and was appointed sheriff of the new county of Vernon when it was established in 1852, but the organization of Vernon county being afterward declared invalid, he lost his office. He went to Linn county, Kansas, in 1854, was elected by the proslavery party to the Territorial Legislature, and was killed by a band of guerillas in 1859,..."
Source: Atkeson, W.O. History of Bates County Missouri. Topeka, Historial Publishing Company, 1918, Pg. 272.
"How Bloody Was Bleeding Kansas? Political Killings in Kansas Territory, 1854-1861" By Dale E. Watts. Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. Summer 1995. Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 129.
#56 Samuel Scott (proslavery)
Killed by a party of Charles Jennison's men (antislavery)
November 18, 1860, Linn County
Hanged because he was a member of the first territorial legislature, had harbored proslavery raiders, and had returned to Kansas Territory after having been expelled twice...
Information from Dolores J. Rush
Source: Atkeson, W.O. History of Bates County Missouri. Topeka, Historial Publishing Company, 1918, Pg. 272.
"How Bloody Was Bleeding Kansas? Political Killings in Kansas Territory, 1854-1861" By Dale E. Watts. Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. Summer 1995. Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 129.
#56 Samuel Scott (proslavery)
Killed by a party of Charles Jennison's men (antislavery)
November 18, 1860, Linn County
Hanged because he was a member of the first territorial legislature, had harbored proslavery raiders, and had returned to Kansas Territory after having been expelled twice...
Information from Dolores J. Rush
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