Scott, Mary Ann Johnston

SCOTT, JOHNSTON

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 6/18/2011 at 13:25:12

Scott, Mary Ann Johnston –
Mrs. W. I. Scott died at her home in Bedford Saturday, July 15th,aged 70 years, 7 months and 3 days. Funeral services were conducted at the Bedford Methodist church by Rev. J. W. Goodsell, and the body was brought to Clearfield for interment.

Mary Ann Johnston was born December 12. 1845, in Morgan Co.,Ohio. She was married to Wm. I. Scott, March 2, 1876, at Athens, Ohio, where they resided until 1881, when they moved to Warren Co., Iowa, moving from there to Ringgold county, and in 1893 to Taylor county, where they have lived to the present time.

There are seven children in this family:—Frank G. Scott, Council Bluffs, Iowa; Sarah A. Wallace of Benton, Iowa; Catherine Barchus, Fargo, N. D.; Thos. Scott, Jennie Andrews, Delia
Holmes, Creston, Iowa; Minnie Miller, Hodges, Montana; also 19
grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

When a girl of sixteen she united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and has always been an active member of the church and a devout follower of the Lord.
Clearfield Enterprise, Clearfield, Iowa, July 20, 1916