LOTT, Simeon

LOTT

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/10/2014 at 18:31:10

Biography ~ Simeon Lott

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), Pp. 695-96:

SIMEON LOTT, one of the enterprising farmers and stock-raisers of Bloomington Township, residing on section 28, is a native of Jefferson County, Indiana, born February 10, 1830. His father, John Lott, was a native of Virginia and when five years old was taken by his parents to Clark County, Kentucky, where he reamined till eighteen years of age. He then removed to Indiana, and was married in Jefferston County, that State, to his cousin, Phoebe Lott. They reared a family of seven children - Abner, Mary Ellen, Lucy, Letcher, Frances, Simeon and Jeremiah, our subject being the sixth child. Simeon Lott was reared to manhood on a farm in his native country, receiving his education at the primitive log-cabin subscription schools, with their puncheon-floors and greased-paper lights for windows, and clapboard roofs. He waas thirty-six years old when he left his native county, coming, in 1866, to Decatur County, Iowa, when he located on land which he had entered in 1855. His farm which contains 138 acres is now well improved and highly-cultivated, and is fenced with osage orange. His residence and farm buildings are comfortable and commodious, and the entire surrounds show the care and thrift of a practical farmer. Mr. Lott is, in his political views, a Republican. He has served as township trustee three years, township clerk three and a half years, and was secretary of the School Board for three and a half years, in all of which he served with credit to himself, and to the best interests of his township. He is a member of the Christian Advent denomination, and is deacon in his church. He is a man of literary taste, and has a good library, composed principally of religious and historical works. He has always taken an active interest in the advancement of education and religion in the neighborhood in which he resides.

NOTE: Simeon died on February 26, 1910, aged 80 years. He was interred at Laurel Oak Cemetery, Windsor MO. Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2014