Scott, Duane (Died 1914)

SCOTT

Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 5/11/2006 at 10:31:51

From the LeMars Sentinel, Friday, April 17, 1914

PIONEERS ARE CALLED

Neither Had Ever Suffered From Any Bad Illness Until the Closing Hours of
Their Life - Duane Scott, Eccentric Recluse, Succumbs to Cancer

Duane Scott, who has been a resident of Union township for almost a third of
a century, died Wednesday evening at his home after an illness extending
over several months. Although Mr. Scott had lived in the community for
almost a generation and on the farm where he died for the greater part of
the past twenty years, none of his neighbors knew him intimately. He
preferred the life of a recluse to association with his fellows and nearly
all the time lived alone on the farm. He was scrupulously honest in all his
dealings, frugal and industrious and acquired a substantial competence. At
one time he left the farm for a few years and lived in Sioux City but later
returned to Union township.

Mr. Scott was born in Kane county, Illinois, about fifty-five years ago and
grew to manhood there. In 1882 or 1883 he came to Plymouth county and
worked on a farm for several years and later ran a threshing machine. In
1892 he bought the 240 acre farm on which he lived and died. He was never
married. He is survived by three brothers, Walter, Frank and Clarence and a
sister, who lives in Aurora, Illinois. His brother, Walter, came here
before his death and a nephew has been with him during his last illness.
Mr. Scott has been for some time affected with cancer of the stomach and
made one or two trips to Rochester, but the surgeons there told him an
operation would be useless.

Funeral services are to be held at the home Saturday and the body will be
taken to Kingsley that evening and shipped to Aurora, Illinois, for burial.