Alma (Sharp) Scott (1905)

SCOTT, SHARP

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 2/16/2009 at 19:29:17

The Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 14, 1905
Page 2

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Mrs. Alma Scott, wife of W. R. Scott, foreman of the Reporter, died at her home in this city this morning at an early hour. Mrs. Scott has been a sufferer for several months and has made a brave fight for her life, but had to succumb to the inevitable. She leaves a husband and three small children. Her mother, from Brook, Ind., has been with her for the past month. The funeral will occur tomorrow in the M.E. church at two o’clock. The P.E.O. Society, of which the deceased was a member, will conduct the burial services.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 14, 1905
Page 5, Column 3

Mrs. W. R. Scott died at an early hour this morning at her home in the northeast part of town. Mrs. Scott has been a sufferer for a year or more past from tuberculosis and her life had been despaired of for some time.

She was a most loveable woman, devoted to her family and admired by her friends for her many good qualities.

In their affliction, the bereaved husband and three little children, have the fullest measure of sympathy.

Funeral services will be held from the M. E. church on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, December 15, 1905
Page 2

Locals - MRS. W. T. SCOTT

Mrs. W. T. Scott, wife of the foreman of the Winterset Reporter, died early Thursday morning from consumption. She had been sick many months and her death was expected for several days. The funeral will occur today and will be in charge of the P.E.O. of which she has been a long time member.
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The Madison County Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 21, 1905
Page 1

Obituary - Alma Scott

After many months of patient suffering, Mrs. Alma Scott passed away at her home in Winterset, on Dec. 14th, 1905. Mrs. Scott was born in Indiana, Sept. 9th, 1873, moving to Kansas with her parents in 1885. She was married to W. R. Scott, Sept. 4th, 1893 and removed to Winterset in 1896, where she has resided until her death.

For the past two years Mrs. Scott had been a victim of tuberculosis, yet her struggle against the disease was heroic, and in spite of a frail physique she made a brave fight to remain with her children and husband, to whom she was intensely devoted. Her first thought was always for her children and her home. She became a member of the Kansas P.E.O. Chapter at the age of eighteen and no more loyal exponent of the sisterhood’s principles could be found than Mrs. Scott.

She became a member of the Winterset Chapter several years ago, and whenever the state of her health permitted, she was always present at its sessions. By her sisters in P.E.O., she was regarded as a faithful worker and a woman in whom they could repose their confidence. A Christian from childhood, she was always charitable and optimistic; and in her death the neighbors and intimate friends have lost a true devoted associate.

Mrs. Scott left three children, a husband, mother, one sister and one brother, to mourn the close of a useful life, and yet they are comforted with the thought that she has gone from pain and care to rest.

The burial services were held on Friday afternoon at the M.E. church by Rev. R. W. Matheny concluding with the ritualistic services of the P.E.O. Sisterhood at the church and cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: Maiden name taken from "Meade Globe", a Meade, Kansas newspaper, announcing her marriage to William Scott.

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