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- Was Charles Ward Scott any relation to Sir Walter Scott. He might have visited Canada before the time of Charles Ward Scott as he had the Royal Yatch at his disposal and travelled many places throughout the world.
He wrote Ivanhoe sometime about when the Loyalists were struggling to get a foothold in Canada & to survive. Sir Walter Scott was an expert on the Border Wars and extremely knowledgable, being his family was also involved as were was the Montgomery Clan. However, be it only a rumor, some thought he got his inspiration for the Jewess who loved Ivanhoe from knowing about Juda Myers. Certainly, Sir Walter Scott would have little sympathy with the Americans as his wife was a French refugee from the French Revolution. If he did come across the ocean to the New World it would have been to visit the Royalist Colonies in Lower Canada. (Upper Canada was not yet formed out of Quebec Prov.)
Another poet, with associations to name of Myers, was Robert Lowell. In 1965, after many years as an outstanding poet, he won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Literature who was written up in Life Magazine in 1965. Being interviewed, he was asked reason a theme of "Jewishness"is so prevelant in his writings of the 1950's and 1960's. He replied: "Fortunately, I'm one-eighth Jewish blood, which I feel is my saving grace, but I believe it would have been enough to bring me under Neremburg laws" (for extermination). The one-eighth Jewish to which Lowel referred was his grandfather, Mordecai Myers, brother of our Judith Myers. He was also a hero in War of 1812 where he lost an arm and later was Mayor of Schenectady, NY.
I am pleased also to have that some Jewish heritage, slight as it may be, I hope it helps make me more open and understanding of all humanity. However, my Ggfth, Richard Montgomery would have been 1/2, his children only 1/4th, making our generation only 1/8 Jewish. To be a Jew in Hitler's Germany one only needed to be 1/32 Jewish to be liable for a Concentration camp. That means even my grandsons would have been at great risk in Nazi Germany. Hopefully we shall remember and never allow any such intollerance again. For if you ask, "For whom the Bell tolls, remember it tolls for thee!"
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1845 - 1918 (73 years)
