By 1870, the Scrimager family was residing in Equality Township in Miller County, Missouri. However, according to family ancestry records, Jeanette was born in Cole County, Missouri on 27 March 1862; it is probable her family lived in Cole County prior to moving to Miller County. In August of 1879, the first of three daughters were born to Daniel and Jeanette.

 

Their daughters included:

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1. Evalena Scrimager - (b. Aug. 1879)

2. Francis Jane Scrimager - (b. Dec. 1883)

3. Viola Scrimager - (b. Jan. 1886)

 

Note: As Daniel and Jeanette never married, all three girls carried their mother's surname. 

 

Mrs. Amanda (Challas) Cummings, wife of Daniel Cummings, was still living when Daniel and Jeanette's first child, Evalena came into the world. It is uncertain if Amanda was aware of the birth, but according to Rebecca Tumbleson, great-granddaughter of Frances Scrimager, stated, "I believe that many people of Tuscumbia were very aware of who the three girls were while growing up and accepted the girls, hopefully, without discrimination." Mrs. Amanda Cummings died in 1881.

 

After the death of Amanda, Daniel fathered two more daughters with Jeanette, Frances Jane and Viola. Unfortunately, Daniel did not live to see their third daughter Viola, as he died a few months prior to her birth.

 

The oldest daughter Evalena married Thomas Watters in 1899 and Frances Jane married Charles Melvin Payne on 16 May 1903; they lived some of their married life in Tuscumbia and then in Bagnell, Missouri.

 

Youngest daughter, Viola, worked and lived with Captain Robert Marshall and his wife, Emma (Hauenstein) Marshall for 45 years. Robert Marshall was a renown riverboat operator and builder during the early years of the Osage River transportation. Viola never married and she is buried in the Marshall family plot in Tuscumbia Cemetery.

 

As of the present day it is a perplexing as to why a 69 year old man and a 17 year old young woman would start a relationship that endured for over six years, but as three daughters were born from this relationship, one would like to think this was a result of love and romance.

 

On 20 March 1897, twelve years after the death of Daniel, Jeanette married her first husband William Russsell (1833-1911), 29 years her senior. William Russell and Jeanette had one child together:

 

Charles Clark Russell 1899-1976,

 

As Charles Russell was born in Bagnell, Missouri, it is likely that Jeanette moved from Tuscumbia during that period of her life. William Russell died in 1911 and then, in September of that same year, Jeanette married a second time to John Hanrahan, 31 years her senior. Jeanette and John Hanrahan divorced sometime in the early 1900's. No children were born from their marriage.

 

Jeanette was living in Bagnell when she died on 4 July 1926. She is buried in the Tuscumbia Cemetery, beside her parents, John and Margaret Scrimager, and not too far from Daniel Cummings gravesite. It is interesting to note that inscribed on Jeanette's headstone is the last name Russell, not Hanrahan.