Re: missouri scarritts
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St Louis Mo Post-Dispatch
Bridegroom of 82 Says Never To Late To Wed
The Rev. J.A. Scarritt Tires of Boarding Round and Rents Cottage
Her Parents In Flock, Minister Preached To Wife's Parents Before She Was Born
It's never to late to marry, according to the Rev J.A. Scarritt of Alton ILLinois, who at the age of 82 has taken Miss Fannie Johnson, 54, to wed. The veteran clergyman, now retired from active service, has his own ideas as to the wisdom of marriage late in life.
"A person is never to old to get married, he said to a Post-Dispatch reporter, if he feels like it. I am well preserved able to take care of myself physically and financially, and why should I not marry? I know some people may scoff at an old widower marrying an old maid, but I shan't mind that. My close friends appreciate my viewpoint."
One can not have a homelike feeling of companionship without being married. The Bible sanctions marriage for that reason as for others. It is not good for men to be alone. I have no children, I have no relatives _____, 10 brothers and two sisters, and ______ scattered. (Page torn)
I have been boarding _______, six times in four years. The people where I have boarded were kindbut that was not like having a home of one's own. We are fitting up our cottage and will move in about the end of next week. "
The Rev. Mr. Scarritt and his bride are living at the Madison Hotel for the present.
Next week they will occupy a cottage at 319 East Fourth Street, Alton, where they will be at home to friends Nov. 19.
They were married Wednesday evening in the parsonage of the First Methodist Church of Alton, which the bridegroom himself occupied 30 years ago, with his first wife, when he was pastor there. The Rev. E.P. Kilne, present pastor, officiated.
Preached To Her Parents
The bride, who is from Bunker Hill, Illinois, was attended by her sister, Miss Emma Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Paul of Alton, no others being present. The wedding was arranged by Mr. Paul, who engaged the minister three weeks ago and enjoyed secrecy. The marriage license was taken out after 4 P.M. the Alton newspapers having gone to press.
The Rev. Mr. Scarritt was pastor of the Bunker Hill Methodist Church, before his bride was born. Her parents were members of his flock. Years later he returnedin that pastorate and found Miss Fannie Johnson, a young orphan girl, adopted by the McPherson family. He was interested in the orphan because he had known her parents. From time to time in the past 40 years he has met Miss Johnson in his church work.
The veteran clergyman is one of the best known Methodists in Illinois. He has been in the ministry 58 years. For ____ aggreating 20 years he served as presiding elder in Southern Illinois Districts. His last pastorate was at ____ where he served 6 years. Prior to that he had been pastor at Alton, Jerseyville, Edwardsville, and other Illinois towns.
He was reared at Godfrey, four miles north of Alton, and three years ago he donated $3,000 to the Godfrey Church for a new ediface as a monument to the Scarritt family.
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JOTHAM A. SCARRITT TO HANNAH R. MELDRUM10/04/1849 006/0086 00000436 MADISONCO ILL
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Nathan Scarritt died 14 DEC 1847, Madison Co ILL.
Madison Co, Il probate box 16, tray 051. Will dated 6 Sept 1844, proved 21 Dec 1847. Latty Scarritt and Russell Scarritt administrators. Left everything to his wife Latty, she to pay the children's legacies. If she should remarry, she would get 1/4 of what remained and the other 3/4 to be divided equally between all their children. Children's legacies: Laura Ellet, Russel Scarritt, Isaac Scarritt, Nathan Scarritt, and Mary Jane Lucky, one dollar each, they having already each had $50; Jotham Alds Scarritt, Edward Gibson Scarritt and Winthrop Gillman Scarritt $50 each on the day that they arrive at the age of 21 years. Remainder to be divided equally amongst the children after the widow dies.
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Letitia (nee Alds) Scarritt's Obit:
Died: 7 DEC 1875 in Kansas City, MO
"Died at the residence of her son, Rev. Nathan Scarritt, at Kansas City, MO, Dec. 7, 1875, Mrs. Latty Scarritt, aged 82 years and 1 day. She was born in Grafton county, New Hampshire, Dec. 6, 1793; was married to Nathan Scarritt, April 2, 1812; removed with her family to Illinois in 1820, and settled first in Edwardsville. In 1826 removed to a small prarie five miles north of Alton, which, for a long time, bore the family name, 'Scarritt's Prarie,' and has consequently been identified with the history of this vicinity for nearly fifty years.
"She lived to see the wilderness and wastes transformed into fruitful fields and pleasant homes, and always watched for, and welcomed, the enterprising emigrant, the competent educator, and the pious minister, with unfeigned cordiality. To all these, without regard to sect or party, her doors were open, and with heart and hand she was ready and zealous to co-operate in every enterprise that would develop the country and stamp intelligence and morality upon its gathering and growing society. For many years her lowly and lonely dwelling was the hotel, the hospital and the house of worship.
"Blessed with an excellent physical constitution, and with great prudence of habit, her powers of endurance were a marvel.
Being the mother of twelve children, for whose wants she provided largely with her own hands, yet often might be found also under her roof the orphan, the invalid and the unfortunate of other families. And often, too, was she found by the bedside of the sick and dying in other homes, always to help and bless, both by word and deed.
"To her natural coolness and courage was added large caution, fitting her pre-eminently for frontier life and labor. She could drive a team through lonely forests and over bridgeless streams. She could dress a ghastly wound or set a broken limb. She could watch, alone, with the dying, or the dead, day or night. Indeed, whatever duty required of her, could and must be done. Activity was a habit so confirmed that, as she became infirm with age, her greatest trial seemed to be to refrain from taking part in the many enterprises of life in which she felt so deep an interest. She was spared to live long and do much, and three generations rise up to call her blessed.
Most of her immediate family have preceded her to the spirit world. She leaves but one daughter and three sons, two of whom are ministers.
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Godfrey First United Methodist Church
519 Grace St.
Godfrey Il 62035
(618) 466-3624
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 - 3:00
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1825 to 2001
A Brief History of Godfrey First United Methodist Church
The history of the Godfrey First United Methodist Church can be traced back to 1825.A Methodist class meeting began in the home of Nathan and Letitia Scarritt on a plot of land known as "Scarritt’s Prairie".In 1827 a Sunday School with 16 pupils was started in the Scarritt home becoming a headquarters for Methodist circuit riders.By 1828, the Methodist class had become firmly established and religious services began to be held.
The first sermon was preached in a religious service held in the Nathan Scarritt home by the Rev. John Hogan in the summer of that year.The following summer (1829), a small frame schoolhouse was constructed on the Scarritt farm, which also served as a meetinghouse for the Methodist society that had organized as the "Bethany Methodist Episcopal Church".
This structure was to serve the church until 1851, when Jotham Scarritt (Nathan & Letitia’s son), a Methodist preacher, with the help of his mother, built a frame church in front of the schoolhouse at the cost of $2000.
In 1905, the Scarritt farm was partition between the heirs of Nathan Scarritt.The church relocated to its present location.A large, white frame church was built and dedicated May 5, 1908 as the "Scarritt Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church" in honor of the first sermon preached in the home of Nathan Scarritt.This structure was destroyed by fire on New Year’s Day, 1930.A new, brick building was built upon the same location and was dedicated November 3, 1933.
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Biographical sketch of Reverend Nathan Scarritt (1821-1890), "the first president of the old Bank of Kansas City, MO at 521 Main street." Native of Illinois coming to Kansas City in 1852 "to take charge of the churches in Kansas City and Westport" and in 1862 buying "40 acres of land surrounding his old homestead at Harris and Cleveland Avenues, what is now Scarritt's Point."
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Judge Edward Scarritt, "the eldest son of the late Rev. Nathan Scarritt" and a lawyer and banker with "the old Knasas City State Bank." Born in Jackson County in 1843 and coming to Kansas City in 1877 as a lawyer (partnered with his brother William Scarritt) from Glasgow, Missouri before becoming a judge and banker.
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June 7, 1890
NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1890-1893
In the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, May 23, 1890, the Rev. NATHAN SCARRITT, DD, was memorialized; basically, that he died May 22, 1890, a well-to-do preacher interested in the furthering of education in the church.
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Date: August/21/1897
Kansas City News
A Sensation in Society: Miss Berenice Scarritt and W. E. Royster Marry at Glasgow
File containing a photocopy of an article about the wedding of Miss Berenice Scarritt to William Royster, "the Kansas City agent of the Mobile & Ohio railroad here." Description of their elopement made against the bride's parents' (including her father, Judge Edward Scarritt) wishes in Glasgow, Missouri.
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Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City
http://web1.umkc.edu/whmckc/Collections/ikc248.htmhttp://web1.umkc.edu/whmckc/Collections/ikc248.htm
Nathan Scarritt (1821-1890) Family Papers
Nathan Scarritt, born in Edwardsville, Illinois, was the 7th of 12 children of Nathan and Latty (Allds) Scarritt. They moved to Alton, Illinois in 1826 where Nathan worked on the family farm until age 16. He attended McKendree College, a Methodist school in Lebanon, Illinois, working for his tuition and board. He graduated in 1842 and for the next three years taught at Waterville, Illinois.
In 1845, Nathan moved to Fayette, Missouri. He and his brother-in-law, William T. Lucky, founded Howard High School, which later became Central College for men and Howard College for women. He became an ordained Methodist minister in 1846.
Thomas Johnson (for whom Johnson County, Kansas, is named) established a Methodist mission for the Shawnee Indians in 1830. In 1848, he asked Scarritt to supervise courses in classical studies. Scarritt taught there for three years and also preached among the Shawnee, Delaware, and Wyandott Indians. In 1850, he married Martha Matilda Chick. He helped establish Westport High School and became its principal, along with serving as minister to churches in Westport and Kansas City. In 1855, Scarritt resigned and was assigned by the bishop to become a circuit rider preacher in the Kickapoo District of Kansas, which he continued for seven years.
In 1862, Scarritt moved into a log home he had built himself on a 40-acre plot just east of the Kansas City limits. In 1863, after Order Number Eleven was issued, he moved his family within the Kansas City limits, where he taught school in 1864-1865. After the Civil War they returned to the log home. He had bought real estate interests in the new town of Kansas, and as real estate boomed after the war, his lands rose in value. He owned substantial amounts of land, including what was later known as Scarritt Point and North Terrace Park, the Eighth and Main area in town, and 80 acres in Johnson County which he bought from the Shawnee Indians. The log cabin burned in 1869 and he built a larger house about one-half mile away on the bluff.
He and his wife, Martha had nine children, six of whom were alive at the time of their father's death: Edward, Charles, Nathan, William Chick, Ann Elizabeth (Hendrix), Martha Matilda (Jones). (Mary Lucky/Mamie, Juliet Virginia and Joseph had died.) After Martha's death in 1873, Scarritt married Ruth Barker Scarritt, the widow of his brother, Isaac.
The collection contains papers relating to the family of Nathan Scarritt. Most of the correspondence is from Robert Davis, who was the brother of Francis Davis (Scarritt), who married William Chick Scarritt; letters to and from William Chick Scarritt; and correspondence of William Hendrix Scarritt (William Chick Scarritt's son), and Nathan Scarritt of Oklahoma (Charles Wesley Scarritt's son). There are a few letters from Nathan Scarritt and various others. Also included are clippings, articles and announcements relating to the Scarritt and Chick families. There are also many deeds and leases concerning the property owned by Scarritt and, after his death, his estate. Many tax receipts are also present. There are a few articles and speeches by William Chick Scarritt, including one on Thomas Johnson. Some brochures relating to Scarritt College are also in the collection. 1839-1962
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Kansas City, MO
Written by Wilda Sandy
http://kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=34940http://kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=34940
Rev. Nathan Scarritt
Biography of Rev. Nathan Scarritt, 1821 - 1890. Methodist minister and teacher
The Rev. Nathan Scarritt was a college-educated teacher and Methodist preacher. He had traveled extensively through Indian country before arriving here in 1848 at age 27.
He was born in Edwardsville, Illinois on April 14, 1821. He came here to "teach the classics" in this barren outpost. He spent a lifetime pounding book-learning into young heads at all levels. In 1862 he bought farmland in the Northeast District. By the time he died 28 years later, he was two million dollars richer.
The Rev. Mr. Scarritt and his wife, Martha Matilda Chick, produced nine children. Originally they all lived in Westport, in the tidy two-story framed farmhouse still standing at 4038 Central Street. But by 1862, border incidents and Scarritt's neutrality made Westport an unhealthy place for them to live. It was then the Scarritts moved to their farm in Northeast.Their 260 acres lay just above the east junction of today's Cliff Drive and Gladstone Boulevard. Part of their farm now contains Kessler Park.
In the 1880s Scarritt platted the Melrose Addition out of his acreage. There within ten years palatial mansions were built. Scarritt also gave each of his children a parcel to build on. So at one time, there were 11 Scarritt houses in the neighborhood. Most notable is the still family-owned Scarritt-Royster home. A stone and shingle manse, it was built in 1898 at 3500 Gladstone Boulevard.
Nathan Scarritt died at age 69 on May 22, 1890. He came here early, did his job well, raised a large family, prospered and helped make Kansas City.
Note: Picture of Nathan can be ordered from this library.
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National Register for the Nathan Scarritt home, built in 1847 at 4038 Central Street (formerly 305 Lawrence Avenue). Kansas City, MO
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