Wouldn't you say that she bears a striking resemblance to my Great, Great, Great Grandmother Amy Scott Chase?
I wonder if there were other similarities besides appearance? Family histories describe her a a sturdy and devout Quaker with a character predominated by courage and fortitude.
Amy was born in Rupert, Vermont, with fourteen siblings. When Amy Scott married Abner Chase in 1808 she was nineteen years old. Within the following nineteen years, Amy bore eleven children. They lived on a Vermont homestead which still goes by the name of "Chase Hollow" and is located at the foot of "Tater Hill".
Two years after the birth of her youngest, Abner passed away, leaving Amy with nine living children, five boys and four girls.
She sold the farm and moved in with her oldest son, Sisson's family. Amy enlisted the help of family members to help raise the younger children. Her son Solomon, my Great, Great, Great Grandfather lived with his uncles and was introduced to the gospel by them.
Amy followed her son's spiritual path and laid aside the Quaker religion.
She was very independent and developed the skill of weaving the wire sieves for threshing machines, which enabled her to make "quite a salary". After working and saving for three years she could afford to buy a span of horses, a wagon, and other necessities to immigrate to Iowa, where she joined a group of other settlers on the Pottawattamie Plains for three years.
In 1853, when Amy was sixty-four years old, she started west with many other family members. She lived with Sisson's family for a period of forty years. She was buried in Salt Lake City in 1872.
So, back to the comparison to the Clampett's. Amy's family were mountaineers who struck gold when they heard the gospel message. They headed west and lived in a multi-generational setting for many years. How many other similarities may exist is yet to be known.
