Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Agnes Scott was born in 1865 in Dunedin – the daughter of James Leaven Scott and Isabella Jamieson, nee Cruickshank.
She became a Captain in the Salvation Amy and is first mentioned in the Salvation Army History in 1893 when she took up a post in Manawatu.
She had previously served at Otepopo, Wellington and Christchurch.
The Salvation Army worked with the local Māori and, in 1897, Agnes helped to set up the Gisborne Training Garrison.
When Agnes signed the suffrage petition she gave her address as Manawatu/Horowhenua but appears to have been visiting Dunedin.
Towards the end of 1897 'Captain Scott had to go home on account of her mother’s illness and was unable to resume her work as an officer'.
She married William Morris, a member of the Gisborne Corps, in 1899. William was a widower with ten children.
Agnes and William had a further six children.
William died in 1926 at the age of 81, he is buried in the Makaraka Cemetery, Gisborne.
Agnes died in Napier on 22 July 1957, she was cremated at the Hastings Crematorium.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Salvation Army History https://www.researchgate.net
Hastings District Council http://cemeterybase.hdc.govt.nz
Gisborne District Council https://cemeterysearch.gdc.govt.nz/