Ann, as a young child, came to the US with her mother, Mary (Beaven) Wheeler (later Alton) and her aunt, Sarah Beaven. Her mother, Mary, lashed Ann to herself with a sheet to prevent her from being washed overboard and if so, least they would be together. Ann spent her early years in Dubuque, Iowa, but after her father, George Wheeler died, her mother remarried and they moved to a small community of Lewisburg, one mile north of Hazel Green, WI. The move and marriage happen sometime around 1848. Within a few years, Ann met and married Frederick E. Scott. They were married in Galena, Illinois on Nov. 15, 1851. Galena is across the state line and only 9 miles south of Hazel Green. Making their home first in the community of Lewisburg, Fredrick worked as a freighter. The couple soon moved to a small farm a few miles west and on the Suisinawa River. This was four miles north/west of the town of Hazel Green. Here they lived until 1876. All of their children were born and to some extent raise near the small town of Hazel Green. In 1876, Ann and Frederick wanted more land and bought 240 acres, four miles north of Modale, Iowa. In the fall of 1876, the family, young and old moved with them. Ann and seven children came by the southern route, while Fredrick and the third oldest son, Tom, came by rail with two cars of freight. One, filled with house hold goods, the other with the farm animals. In 1884 Ann and Fredrick moved again to a house that Fredrick had built in the City of Missouri Valley, not far from Modale. After Fredrick died, Ann and her daughter Sarah left Missouri Valley to follow her two sons, John and Theodore living in Routt County, Colorado. En-route at Edwards, Colorado, Ann died. Theodore and Sarah then returned Ann's body to Iowa, where she was buried along side her husband Fredrick.

Bio by Barry Foster and GGGrandson Ed Hennings, from family information and with special thanks to distant cousin Barry for all his dedicated research and work. Family source material is 'Scott Family History' by unknown author, possible Sarah (Scott) Cottingham.

The Beaven name is spelled many ways in various documents: Bevan, Beavan, Beaven, Bivan and probably others. It is believed to come from the tradition in Wales in earlier times when sons were named after their fathers: the father's name was preceded with the word ab- or ap- so in this case it was ab-Evan or basically 'son of Evan.'