Whitley County Historical Society's 'The Bulletin' notes mother who had nineteen children in ten years
By Jennifer Zartman Romano
Mothers with little ones -- there are certainly days when your home seems overrun by children and you don't get a minute's rest. Rest assured, however, there was once a woman in Whitley County who had it worse than you.
In fact, her story is so amazing...it would probably make national news today.
In the most recent edition of the Whitley County Historical Society's "The Bulletin" there is a story from an October 1922 Pierceton Record, telling the wild tale of Mrs. Frank Scott of near South Whitley.
Mrs. Scott and her husband, then aged 30 and 31, had 19 children in just 10 years!
In 1922, just 13 of the children were yet alive -- and they were all under the age of four and a half years-old.
The living children included four and a half year-old triplets Ashbell, Archer and Austin; three and a half year-old twins Arnold and Arthur; two and a half year-old triplets Allen, Almon and Albion; 18-month-old triplets Alfred, Albert and Adolph; and six-month-old twins Abel and Abner.
That year, the couple apparently moved to Oklahoma.
If all this was true, they certainly could have had their own reality show!
Mothers with little ones -- there are certainly days when your home seems overrun by children and you don't get a minute's rest. Rest assured, however, there was once a woman in Whitley County who had it worse than you.
In fact, her story is so amazing...it would probably make national news today.
In the most recent edition of the Whitley County Historical Society's "The Bulletin" there is a story from an October 1922 Pierceton Record, telling the wild tale of Mrs. Frank Scott of near South Whitley.
Mrs. Scott and her husband, then aged 30 and 31, had 19 children in just 10 years!
In 1922, just 13 of the children were yet alive -- and they were all under the age of four and a half years-old.
The living children included four and a half year-old triplets Ashbell, Archer and Austin; three and a half year-old twins Arnold and Arthur; two and a half year-old triplets Allen, Almon and Albion; 18-month-old triplets Alfred, Albert and Adolph; and six-month-old twins Abel and Abner.
That year, the couple apparently moved to Oklahoma.
If all this was true, they certainly could have had their own reality show!