Nice to hear from you, too. It's hard to prove a negative, but I'll give you what I have. I have spent many years researching the Scotts, because my father's maternal great grandfather was
Chesley Scott and his paternal great grandmother was Elizabeth Caroline (or Caroline Elizabeth) Scott
Vickery.
You will already have found Lemuel and Mary in census records, but let me recap. In 1850, they were living together with their children in
Franklin Co. By 1860, they were living apart. Mary, in 1860, lived with minor sons Benjamin and Joseph, next door to
Chesley and Eliza
Walters Scott. By 1870, Mary Scott was living with her daughter Eliza
Mosely and granddaughter, Mary
Mosely. In the 1880 census, citizens were asked their marital status, and Mary Scott described herself as "divorced". She died a year later. I cannot prove that she did not marry during that year, but she was advanced in age and, upon her death, was still known in the community as Mary Scott.
Mary
McDaniel Scott died July 24, 1881. Her obituary in the
Hartwell Sun of July 30, 1881, describes her as Mrs. Mary Scott, age 76. Her will, dated Feb. 3, 1873, was proven Aug. 1, 1881, Hart Co. Will Book A, pages 189-192. It describes her as Mary A. Scott and lists her daughter: E. A. Mosely. Son: Joseph H. Scott. Witnesses: J. H. Skelton, F. C. Stephenson, E. Chapman. Codicil dated April 5, 1878, witnessed by J. O. Bobo, J. M. (or "W") Scott and C. W. Seidell, refers to "my daughter Eliza A. Mosely and my grandchildren,
Maud Thornton Scott and Laura
Looney Scott.
Virtually, all of my ancestors lived in and around Franklin and
Hart counties in the 19th century. Family names include Scott,
Crump,
Vickery,
Walters, McCurley,
Baker,
Carnes,
McMullan,
Pinson, Martin,
Moulder,
Stribling,
Looney, and many more. So, I've spent a lot of time poring through census, probate, military, cemetery, and marriage records of northeast
Georgia, as well as such contemporary histories as James W. Baker's "History of
Hart County". I don't have many sources for the area around
Anderson, SC in the first half of the 19th century, other than census and military records. Found Lemuel, his wife (presumably Mary), and children in the 1830
Anderson census, so it seems possible that Mary's parents lived in that part of SC, too.
I was told many years ago by another Scott researcher that Lemuel had a brother named Lawson, but I have never seen any evidence that was true. I have also had no success in identifying Mary Ann McDaniel's ancestors in SC. Would be interested in any information on them that you may have or any new areas of research that seem worth pursuing.