Scott, Hugh

SCOTT, LEWIS, JACKSON, REID, CARMON, MEANS, POWNALL, MALCOMSON, BARNES, LINFORD

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SCOTT, Hugh

Farmer; Sec. 35; P. O. Prairie City; born in Fleming Co., Ky. in 1799; came to Jasper Co. in 1856; has 260 acres of land, valued at $60 per acre. Married Miss Mary LEWIS in 1827; she was born in Kentucky in 1811; died June 1, 1852, leaving ten children - Charles, died in 1963; Hannah, 1863; Henry, 1863; Albert, 1863; Lewis, 1862; Asenath Perry, died in 1852; Harriet and Jacob; their oldest son William died in 1830. Mr. S. is an old-line Ahig; is now a Republican; hass held the office of Justice of the Peace, Township Assessor, Township Trustee, and School Director of Prairie City schools. Mr. Scott is among the early settlers, coming upon his farm when entirely new. Had five sons in the late war, non of whom came home alive, three going from home and two left families. ~ "Washington Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)
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Scott, Hugh

Herein is recorded the life of one of the representative men of Jasper county, a capable and prominent farmer, who has a unique distinction in that he reared to manhood and to a sense of duty five stalwart sons, who offered their lives to their country and from each of whom she accepted the gift. Few men have been called upon for such a sacrifice as this.

Hugh Scott was born on November 15, 1799, in Fleming County, Kentucky, the son of Thomas and Hannah Reid Scott. Thomas Scott, who was born on June 1, 1766, was the son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Jackson) Scott, and married Hannah Reid, the daughter of Hugh and Jemima (Carmon) Reid, on November 24, 1789. Jemima Carmon was the daughter of John and Hannah Carmon, and was born on May 20, 1745. Hugh Scott's brothers and sisters were: Robert Jackson Scott, who was a lieutenant in the War of 1812, lived later in Ohio, and then in Paris, Illinois; John Carmon Scott, who served in the Ohio Militia in the War of 1812, and remained in Ohio; Joseph Scott; Matthew Reid Scott, of Paris, Illinois; Sarah Scott Fuller; Mary Trewit Scott Means, Asenath Scott Pownall.

Hugh Scott came to Jasper County in 1856, and located in Washington Township. He had resided for more than twenty years previously in Vigo County, Indiana, near Terre Haute. Mr. Scott bought a farm of raw prairie, and cultivated and improved it and made from it an excellent farm, becoming known as one of the best farmers in the county. His success was entirely deserved and was due to his ability and character. He died on September 16, 1882, aged eighty-three years lacking two months.

In 1827 Hugh Scott was married to Mary Lewis, who was born in Kentucky in 1811, and died on June 8, 1852, in Vigo County, Indiana. She bore to him nine children, whose records follow: Charles T. Scott enlisted in the Union Army in the Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry in 1862, and died in 1863 in the service of his country. Hannah Scott married George Linford, of Mound Prairie Township, Jasper County, and died in 1863. Henry Scott enlisted in 1861 in Company B., Fifth Iowa Infantry, and died in the service in March 1863. Albert Scott, of Vigo County, Indiana, enlisted in the Eighteenth Indiana Battery of Light Artillery, and died in Tennessee in 1863. Lewis Scott enlisted in 1861 in the Eighth Iowa Infantry, and died in the Keokuk (Iowa) hospital in 1862. Foster Scott enlisted in 1863 in the Ninth Iowa Cavalry, and met his death on the field at Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas. Thus of the sons of Hugh Scott five served in the armies of the Union, and all of these five gave their lives in the nation's cause

Asenath Scott married first Thomas Malcomson, of Washington Township, who came to Jasper County in the fall of 1865. He served three years in the Second Wisconsin Infantry. To this marriage were born two children, Riley Malcomson, of Colfax, and Henry Malcomson, a builder, of Minot, North Dakota. Mrs. Malcomson married later G. O. Barnes, who came to Jasper County in the eighties, and died in 1896, at the age of fifty-two.

Harriet Scott married George Linford after the death of her sister, Hannah Scott. Harriet Scott died June 20, 1911. Jacob Scott, a farmer of Washington Township, died on April, 1886, at the age of thirty-six.

Hugh Scott took an active and prominent part in the affairs of his community. He was an old-time Whig, and later a Republican. He filled the offices of township assessor and trustee, was a justice of the peace, and at one time a member of the school board in Prairie City. His character was strong and his individuality impressive. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 443.