"Their music was so beautiful"
Robert Scott's descendant, Yvonne Simkins, and collateral descendant, Dr. Elizabeth Carter, talk about what they heard about the Scott musicians.
Theme: Arts, Music, and Culture
Yvonne Mitchell Simkins
Interview Information
19 Oct. 1998, Washington, DC
Interviewees: Yvonne Simkins, Marion Elizabeth Carter, Gloria Thornburgh
Excerpts
Ancestry
- Elizabeth Hemings 1735–1807
- Mary Hemings Bell 1753–post 1834
- Sarah Bell Scott
- Robert Scott 1803–1899
- Yvonne Mitchell Simkins 1921–