Individual Details
Matthew Thompson Scott
(5 Jan 1786 - 21 Aug 1858)
Matthew Thompson Scott went to Kentucky as a young man and married Winnie Webb who had come from Virginia in 1792 with her parents, Isaac and Lucy Ware Webb. For many years he was a cashier, then president, of the Northern Bank of Kentucky at Lexington. He was a pall bearer for Henry Clay. He and his wife, Winny are buried in Lexington cemetery of which he was one of the four founders.
Rutherford Hayes wrote his sister, Fanny Hayes Platt at Columbus on July 1, 1855: "I...was soon at home with Birchie, Lucy, and all at Uncle Thompson Scott's cousinly mansion. The family here consists of Uncle Thompson, a fine old gentleman over seventy years old, with faculties unimpaired, intelligent, and cheerful. He has been in the bank of which he is president some forty years, is staid and sober, but not severe or strict. He is now reading the Bible at the other [end of the room]. He is a brother of Mother Webb's mother, and his first and present wife were sisters of Lucy's father. Aunt Betsey's first husband was a brother of Uncle Thompson. She is twenty years younger than her husband and the youngest woman of her age I have ever seen. There is one unmarried daughter, Cousin Lucy, a fine good girl, getting passee, but good-looking; two sons, twenty and twenty-two, fair specimens of the better sort of Kentucky-bred young men. A daughter of Aunt Betsey by her first husband, another Lucy, with her rich husband spending the honeymoon here after their tour; two sons of Aunt Betsey by her first husband, wild young fellows, and lots of niggers. The house is very large--rooms high, ventilation perfect, and nobody bothers or is bothered by anybody else. As independent as in hotel, and much the same in some things. Newcomers arrive constantly. The table ranging from ten to fifteen plates--plates, by the by, precisely like the blue old china ones Mother had in Delaware.
We went to church this morning, saw a good exhibition of fine ladies and fine duds, heard a showy discourse of old-fashioned Presbyterian doctrine apparelled in all the modern phrases and delivered as Henry Clay might have done the same thing when a youngster. The town is old and old-fashioned, streets many of them narrow and poorly paved, but there are hosts of fine mansions with spacious yards, splendid walks, and elegant improvements. People here seem to live for the sake of living more than in most places."
"He was a man of rare financial sagacity and of irreproachable integrity and had been identified with the banking interests of Kentucky for more than 40 years"
(Ranke), Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family, pg. 43.
Rutherford Hayes wrote his sister, Fanny Hayes Platt at Columbus on July 1, 1855: "I...was soon at home with Birchie, Lucy, and all at Uncle Thompson Scott's cousinly mansion. The family here consists of Uncle Thompson, a fine old gentleman over seventy years old, with faculties unimpaired, intelligent, and cheerful. He has been in the bank of which he is president some forty years, is staid and sober, but not severe or strict. He is now reading the Bible at the other [end of the room]. He is a brother of Mother Webb's mother, and his first and present wife were sisters of Lucy's father. Aunt Betsey's first husband was a brother of Uncle Thompson. She is twenty years younger than her husband and the youngest woman of her age I have ever seen. There is one unmarried daughter, Cousin Lucy, a fine good girl, getting passee, but good-looking; two sons, twenty and twenty-two, fair specimens of the better sort of Kentucky-bred young men. A daughter of Aunt Betsey by her first husband, another Lucy, with her rich husband spending the honeymoon here after their tour; two sons of Aunt Betsey by her first husband, wild young fellows, and lots of niggers. The house is very large--rooms high, ventilation perfect, and nobody bothers or is bothered by anybody else. As independent as in hotel, and much the same in some things. Newcomers arrive constantly. The table ranging from ten to fifteen plates--plates, by the by, precisely like the blue old china ones Mother had in Delaware.
We went to church this morning, saw a good exhibition of fine ladies and fine duds, heard a showy discourse of old-fashioned Presbyterian doctrine apparelled in all the modern phrases and delivered as Henry Clay might have done the same thing when a youngster. The town is old and old-fashioned, streets many of them narrow and poorly paved, but there are hosts of fine mansions with spacious yards, splendid walks, and elegant improvements. People here seem to live for the sake of living more than in most places."
"He was a man of rare financial sagacity and of irreproachable integrity and had been identified with the banking interests of Kentucky for more than 40 years"
(Ranke), Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family, pg. 43.
Events
| Birth | 5 Jan 1786 | Shippensburg, Cumberland Co., PA. | |||
| Marriage | 12 Jun 1810 | KY - Winifred "Winnie" Webb |  | ||
| Marriage | Jul 1836 | Lexington, Fayette Co., KY - Elizabeth Frances "Betsy" Webb | |||
| Death | 21 Aug 1858 | Lexington, Fayette Co., KY | |||
| Burial | 22 Aug 1858 | Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette Co., KY | |  |
Families
| Spouse | Winifred "Winnie" Webb (1793 - 1833) |
| Child | James W. Scott (1811 - 1833) |
| Child | Elizabeth Thompson "Betsy" Scott (1813 - 1835) |
| Child | Isaac Webb Scott (1814 - 1904) |
| Child | Lucy Catherine Scott (1816 - 1816) |
| Child | Mary Dewees Scott (1817 - 1902) |
| Child | Lucy Webb Scott (1819 - 1820) |
| Child | John William Scott (1821 - 1888) |
| Child | Winifred Webb "Winnie" Scott (1822 - 1885) |
| Child | Margaret Lucy Scott (1824 - 1913) |
| Child | Lucy Ware Scott (1826 - 1901) |
| Child | Matthew Thompson Scott , Jr. (1823 - 1891) |
| Child | Joseph Scott (1829 - 1865) |
| Child | William Nicholson Scott (1831 - 1833) |
| Child | William Thompson "Will" Scott (1833 - 1875) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Frances "Betsy" Webb (1806 - ) |
| Father | Matthew Scott (1739 - 1798) |
| Mother | Elizabeth "Betsey" Thompson ( - 1802) |
| Sibling | Dr. John Mitchell Scott |
| Sibling | Mary Scott |
| Sibling | William Scott ( - 1875) |
| Sibling | Margaret Scott (1772 - 1833) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Thompson "Betsey" Scott |
| Sibling | Dr. Joseph Scott (1781 - 1843) |
Notes
Marriage
Judy Ware has marriage year as 1811Burial
Section H, Lot 1-5Endnotes
1. Lexington Cemetery, Lexington Cemetery, Lexington Cemetery (lexcem.qx.net : accessed 25 November 2009), .