Scott, W. Z.

SCOTT, DECKER

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/14/2013 at 09:01:05

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

SCOTT, W.Z.—Madison Twp—pg 959. Farmer, section 19, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in New Brunswick, in 1851, his father being a native of Missouri, and his mother a native of Nova Scotia. When three months old young Scott accompanied his parents to Bureau county, Illinois, where he began life as a farmer boy and remained there on a farm till 1869, when he, with parents, moved to Poweshiek county, and settled on three hundred and seventy acres of new land his father then bought, and which is now all improved. The subject of this sketch, in 1878, bought one hundred and sixty acres in Carroll county, Iowa. He was married, in 1873, in Malcom, to Miss Annie Decker of Bear Creek township, and from this union they have four girls: Maud M. (aged six years), Grace W. (aged five years), Effa Blanche (aged three years), Olive B. (aged one year).