- 1860 Birth of daughter Adella
- 1860 Census in Salisbury, Merrimack NH
- Southern Life in the Civil War
4 February 1860, age 34
Birth of daughter Adella Grace "Della" Scott, Salisbury, Merrimack NH
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| Vintage Baby Scale from Graphics Fairy |
1860 Census age 34
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| Harvey Scott 1860 NH Census part 1 |
This is one of those documents that split the family up. The first part, you find Harvey on the very last line. The numbers preceding his name are Dwelling number and Family number. Sometimes separate families live in the same house, so the census takers make that distinction. He is 33 years old, and a farm labourer who actually has some monetary worth. He has land valued at 200$ and personal property valued at 150$. His land would have been worth over $5,400 as of 2014, and his personal property worth over $4,000. That's not too bad! It indicates he was born in Vermont.
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| Harvey Scott family 1860 Census Part 2 |
On the next census page for Salisbury, Merrimack County, NH, we find the rest of the family on the first four lines. Mary J. Scott is 28 years old; Marshall W. Scott is 3, and Adela G. is less than one year. Lucretia M. Scott is Harvey's 31 year old sister. I don't have much information about her other than this census.
[UPDATE] Because I added her onto my Ancestry tree, I found the 1850 census for her, including her brother. The index had him as "Henry" rather than Harvey. You can't always trust the index, you have to lay eyeballs on the documents themselves. Lucretia and Harvey were born in Vermont, while Mary Jane and the kids were born in New Hampshire.
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| Harvey Scott mini pedigree from Ancestry.com |
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Below is infromation from Ancestry.com's Historical Insights: Southern Life in the Civil War
Southern Life in the Civil War
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For American Southerners, 1861 to 1865 were long and difficult years that saw families uprooted and women forced to head households as more than a million men marched off to fight in the Civil War.
Sarah Morgan Dawson, a child of the Confederacy, recounted the nights during the Civil War as “faint with hunger, dizzy with sleeplessness.” For all Southerners, 1861 to 1865 were long and difficult years—families were uprooted and women forced to head many households as more than a million men marched off to fight. Primarily on Southern soil, the battles left behind a wake of destruction: barren cupboards and entire cities burned to the ground. In a decisive move, the factory-heavy North withheld vital goods like clothing and munitions. Simultaneously, Union forces blocked Southern ports from exporting cotton, virtually shutting down the already crumbling Confederate economy. The home front and battlefront became one and the same: civilians, like soldiers, faced hunger, violence, and an overwhelming sense of uncertainty. When the war finally came to a close, Southerners struggled to adapt to a new way of life as they rebuilt their devastated hometowns.
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