Submitted by: Buddy & Linda Harbin Grubbs

Obadiah Scott (15 Feb. 1764 Bedford Co., VA. - 04 Nov. 1840 Minnith, Ste. Genevieve Co., MO.) purchased this property in 1813 from Andrew Henry, where mention is made of "Scott Spring Branch" that ran through the Saline Creek in the town of Minnith. This is where Obadiah Scott made his family home, where he and his wife, Mary raised their family..  There was already a rock house that had been built previously in the year 1805, by Amos Rowark on the property, and through the years Obadiah Scott developed this farm into a total of 657 acres.

On 21 May 1846 in Minnith, Ste. Genevieve Co., MO. "the heirs of Obadiah Scott," auctioned off the 657 acres of land and the house.  It was purchased at that time by Joseph Coffman.

It is said that the Obadiah Scott family cemetery was originally located "in a spot set aside for burials, just east of the old rock house on the farm," but that through the years since the cemetery was not fenced in to protect it, the cattle on the farm had taken a toile on the cemetery & the headstones therein. The cemetery in later years was moved from their original site, to just east of the old farm, to a cemetery behind the Saline Missionary Baptist Church in Minnith, Saline Co., MO., where the headstone and Revolutionary War marker for Obadiah Scott remains today.

Buddy & Linda Harbin Grubbs
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