What happened to Dred Scotts children?
According to geneological records and the official Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, Dred and Harriet Scott had two sons who died in infancy (dates unknown) and two little girls, Eliza, born in 1838, and Lizzie, born in 1845. Eliza died of an unspecified cause in 1863, at age 25. Lizzie married and gave birth to two sons, only one of whom lived to adulthood.