Did Dred Scott have a wife and children?
According to the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation and the Missouri Historical Society, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet, who were married c. 1836, had four children: two sons who died in infancy (names and dates unknown) and two daughters, Eliza (b. 1838) and Lizzie (c. 1845). Eliza died of an unspecified cause at age 25, sometime around 1863. Lizzie grew up, married and had two sons, only one of whom lived to adulthood.
