Life History

Notes

• Susan and her white husband John Scott were married in Choctaw nation area in what became Mississippi in stages.  Sources reference Anny Scott's parents as a white man and a Choctaw woman.  John Scott was Anny's father and her mother was named Susan Ann Maben/Mabin.  Genealogies report the parents of Susan Ann Maben as William Mebane (Maben) and Charity Marley.  Charity could have been Choctaw, but it does not appear that the Mabane (Maben line was.
  
  And the genealogies report that William and charity married in North Carolina, which makes me wonder about the Choctaw designation.  I am unaware that Choctaws might have been living in this Cherokee country at that time.  We include in this genealogy other ancestors in several lines with Cherokee background from the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee or Alabama areas, which were Cherokee areas before the removal of the people to Indian Territory.  Maybe there are factors we don't have before us here.  The genealogies I have seen are very short on details and documentation.
  
  At least two genealogies reference another Susan Scott who lived in Louisiana.  These genealogies report that their Susan A Maben, with the married name Susan A Scott, which they may correctly identify as her married name, was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
  
  Our Susan, Anny Scott's mother, is reported by historical sources as born in Mississippi.  Some genealogies also say their Susan A Scott was a widow head of household in Louisiana in 1850.  But our Susan died in 1832 on the trek to Indian Territory, according to credible historical and family sources.
  
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  In 1798 the path to statehood was started as the original Mississippi Territory was created by the U.S. Congress. This "first cut" at defining and expanding the boundaries of the fledgling United States, created the territory as a strip of land about 100 miles wide from the Mississippi River to the Chattahoochee River on the Georgia border.
  
  The land area of the territory was increased by the West Florida rebellion of 1810 and the end of the War of 1812. Finally the area of Mississippi Territory reached from the Mississippi River in the West to the Chattahoochee in the East and from Tennessee in the North southward to the Gulf of Mexico including all of the lands of both present day Mississippi and Alabama. In 1817 the U.S. Congress divided the Mississippi Territory into the Mississippi and Alabama territories. Later that same year, Mississippi became the twentieth state.
  
  Over the next two decades, various treaties with the Choctaw made greater and greater land areas of the territory accessible to Americans until with the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first treaty of the era under which Native Americans were literally removed from their homelands, Mississippi was ready for settlement.
  --  Bill White, Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, http://msghn.org/
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  Susan and John were married in what was or later became Adams County, Mississippi.  They were later moved in the removal of the Choctaw people from their traditional lands to the new Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory.  Specific dates of their move are unclear.
  
  Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935
  Susan Ann Mabin
  Spouse John Scott
  Marriage 14 May 1821 Adams County
  
  Susan is reported to have died on the trek to Indian Territory in about 1832.
  
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  Anny Scott Merryman
  She was born in the Choctaw lands in Mississippi in 1821. She was the daughter of John Scott, a white man, and a Choctaw woman, whose name is not known. Family tradition has it that Anny's Choctaw mother died during the trek to Indian territory, in 1832, when Anny was but 10. Anny Scott Merryman died Dec. 19, 1866, and was buried in Skullyville Cemetery.
  --  Skullyville, http://www.skullyville.com/239.html
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Sources

• 1. Skullyville
• 2. Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935
• 3. Oklahoma Chahta Clan of California
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. History of Indian Territory, by D C Gideon
• 6. Ancestry Discussion Boards
• 7. Ancestry Comments