Fidelia (McCollister) Scott (1842-1927)

MCCOLLISTER, MCCALLISTER, MCALLISTER, SCOTT, ELLIOTT, KELLEY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Evening Journal and The Nevada Representative July 29, 1927 (page 3)

Scott Funeral Was Largely Attended

Special to the Journal.
Cambridge, July 29--The funeral services of Mrs. Fidelia Scott, 85, who died at the home of her son in this city Monday, July 25, held at the Cambridge Union church Wednesday afternoon were largely attended. The services were conducted by her pastor Rev. Peter Jacobs. There was special music by a quartet and the pall bearers were Ray Scott, Glen Scott, Ivan Elliott, Frank Elliott and John Rainey, five of them being grandsons. Interment was in the Cambridge cemetery.

When the death angel summoned Mrs. Fidelia Scott he called another of the worthy pioneers of Story county. She was ready for the call. She had served a long an useful life, four score and five years was the length of her pilgrimage. Her rugged constitution was the product of pioneer simplicity, fortitude and toil. The history of her life presents a panoramic view of the struggles and progress if our country.

Fidelia McAllister, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McAllister, was born near Rockford, Winnebago county, Illinois, April 19, 1842. Here she spent her childhood, girlhood and the early years of her womanhood. December 16, 1863, she was united in marriage to Frank Elias Scott, a young man of the same community. They lived in Illinois five years during which time two sons Frank E. Scott and John G. Scott were born to them. The family moved to Iowa April 20, 1868, and settled on a farm ten miles south and west of Nevada. Here they broke the prairie, built them a modest house and established their western home. Three daughters were born to them since coming to this county, Mrs. L. L. Elliott, Mrs. Ivin Elliott, and Minnie May Scott who died in infancy. By constant application, ceaseless toil and the practice of strict economy this family became one of the most prosperous in this vicinity. They were well known among the pioneers of that day. Their home was a place of generous hospitality. Their influence and mans blessed many a family less fortunate. Trials, tribulations, hardships, suffering, sorrow, death found in them sympathizing helpful neighbors and friends.

Mrs. Scott was one of a family of twelve children she with all her brothers and sisters save the youngest, were born in log cabin. She was nineteen when the Civil war broke out. Five of her brothers served on the Union side in that awful conflict. She shared the fears, anxieties and privations of those days and helped to keep the home fires burning during those terrible years. Ezra McAllister of Los Angeles, California and George McAllister, Cambridge, Ia., and a sister, Mrs. George Kelley, St. Cloud, Minn., are still living.

All of her life Mrs. Scott has lived on a farm, except two years she made her home in Cambridge. For a number of years she has made her home with her son, John G. Scott. About two weeks ago she was brought to home of her other son, Frank E. Scott, in Cambridge, that she might be under the more direct care of the physician. Death came peacefully Monday, July 25, about midday. Two sons, two daughters, two brothers, a sister, twenty-three grandchildren and twenty-nine great grandchildren will ever cherish the memory of one greatly beloved. Her husband died Dec. 15, 1918. Mrs. Scott united with the Methodist church of Cambridge in 1895.