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SCOTT, BENJAMIN, farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 9, P.O. Greenfield, was born 1813, in Virginia. His father Welcome Scott, a native of Virginia, was married in Kentucky to Elizabeth Allen, who was a native of Kentucky, and deserves more than a passing notice, for her husband died when they had a family of four children, and Benjamin, the oldest, was but four years of age. She reared her family on a farm in Kentucky till Benjamin was eighteen years of age, then they emigrated to Illinois in 1830; came in a one-horse wagon, and when filled with their beds and wearing apparel, there was but room for one to ride. One of her daughters rode and the rest of them walked. They were twenty-one days on the road coming 500 miles. Benjamin rented land near Winchester, and farmed for two years, then entered 80 acres of land from the government, in Greene County, where he now lives, and has owned 2,600 acres of land at one time, but now owns 536 acres, and is one among the best stock farmers in Greene County; has four living springs on his farm. He was in the Black Hawk War of 1830-31, where he made part of his money to enter land with; was married Oct., 1834, to Lucinda Ruyle, who was born in 1818, in Illinois; have nine children: James (deceased), Elizabeth M., Edward, Sallie J. (deceased), Louisa F., Polly, William T., and Anna, all of whom are married.