The Mount Sterling
Democrat-News , Saturday, April 27, 1889, pg 3
Luellen Scott
The remains of Luellen
Scott, an aged colored woman, were brought here last
Saturday evening for
interment. Aunt Luellen (transcribers
note: she was
born about 1822 in
Kentucky) as she was familiarly known to all, came to
Illinois from Kentucky
with John Means, father of J.R. Means, in 1835, and
lived in his family until
she was married the exact date we were unable to
obtain. (Transcribers
note: she married John Scott, July 21, 1844 in Brown
Co, IL; Vol. A&B,
page 215). After her marriage she lived
with her husband
on a piece of land given
her by Mr. Means and where her husband died, until
her removal to Keokuk in
1884. During her residence in this county
she was
a member of the
Presbyterian church, but when she removed to Keokuk, finding
there a Baptist church
with a large congregation of her own race she united
with them and became one
of the prominent and most respected members.
Aunt
Luellen was an
exceptionally kind, good, Christian woman and was universally
held in high esteem by
all her acquaintances, and, as one expressed it,
though her skin was black
she had a white heart. The funeral
occurred from
the residence of John R.
Means, one mile northwest of the city, at 10 o
clock Sunday morning with
services by Rev. W.D. Smith of the Presbyterian
church, and the remains
of a true, devoted friend were laid away in the
Means graveyard to sleep
the sleep of the righteous.
(Transcribers note: Brown
County, IL cemetery records, page 135, indicate
"Luellen Scott, wife
of John Scott, died April 26, 1889, aged 67 years, 16
days").