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A Brief History of Our Scoville Line

The Scovilles descend from Sir Ralph de Scoville, born 1160, earliest known ancestor. They came to America from England  early in the nation's history and there are many Scovilles of note in the U.S., such as Captain Hector H. Scoville, born 1817, a Union Captain in the Civil War.

The first of our line to come to the U.S. was Arthur Scoville, who emigrated from Dorset, England in 1660 and settled in Connecticut.

Five generations later, in the early1800s, his great-great-great grandson Sheldon Scoville would leave Connecticut for Oneida, New York, as many did after the Revolutionary War during the Westward Expansion. One of Sheldon's sons, Hector H. Scoville, a captain in the Union Army, would be born in Connecticut, raised in New York, then move to Laurel County, Kentucky, where the Scovilles would stay for many generations after.

Hector would have a son named Sheldon and Sheldon would marry Paulina Pigg and have nine children, who are quite interesting. The eldest was Amelia Frances "Fanny" Scoville, who is the great-grandmother of the Millennial Alvarezes. 

Amelia's brother, Hector, is the reason the Alvarezes are Puerto Rican. He created the opportunity for his sister's kid to make a living there. He had one son, Francis, who sadly died in his 20s. I mention him in this list, even though he is not of direct lineage, because he seems to have been largely forgotten from family lore, and from the public record, and I'd like to explore him further and see how much of his story we can tell.

Anyway, Amelia Frances married Montgomery Jones, whose daughter was Daisy Jones. Daisy Jones married John Raymer, and they had Betty Raymer, who married Victor Alvarez. They can be found over at the Jones, Raymer, and Alvarez pages.