Silvester Scott (1854-1925)

SCOTT, ELLIOTT, BROWN, BUNNING, ARVESON, BALLARD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/22/2022 at 12:03:07

From Nevada Evening Journal December 16, 1925 (page 8)

FUNERAL OF PIONEER

Sylvester Scott Resident of County for Seventy Years.

Special to the Journal.
Cambridge, Dec. 16--Funeral services for Sylvester Scott, 71, who died at his home north of here very suddenly last week was held Friday afternoon Dec. 11, at the Walnut Grove M. E. church, conducted by Rev. Peter Jacobs. Mrs. T. G. Johnson and Mrs. J. H. Mason, with Miss Helen Warner at the organ, sang three hymns. The six grandchildren who were pall bearers were Clarence Brown, Roy Scott, Claude Scott, Clayton Scott, Theodore Bunnning, Leonard Scott. Interment in the Cambridge cemetery.

Sylvester Scott was born in Des Moines county, April 2, 1854. Seventy years ago this fall he came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Scott to Walnut Grove. The Iowa of three score years ago was considerably different from the state of today. The hardships, struggles, privations and sufferings of the pioneers were the common lot of those hardy frontiersmen. The children shared in all this.

March 21, 1875 he was united in marriage to Sarah Ann Elliott. Ten children were born to them, one of whom died in infancy. The living are Mrs. L. D. Brown, Ames, Charles Ambrose Scott, Thomas Wesley Scott, Mrs. Bert Scott, Nevada, Luther Scott, Mrs. Fred Bunning, Benkelman, Neb., Warren Scott, Murrel Scott, Mrs. Ed Arveson, Colorado Springs, Colo. These with the mother, two brothers Samuel Scott, Portland, Ore., David Scott, LaPorte City, two sisters, Mrs. John Ballard, Cambridge, Mrs. Elma Brown, Sanborn, Minn., thirty-two grandchildren and five great grandchildren mourn his death.

Last March was the fiftieth anniversary of the wedded life of Mr. and Mrs. Scott. All of these years have been spent in this community Most of their loved ones are settled about them. Mr. Scott has been in poor health for a number of years. He was about Monday and had enjoyed the family meal that evening. He suddenly became ill. Medical aid was immediately summoned. He seemed somewhat relieved but it was only a few hours until another attack proved to be the final summons.

Mr. Scott has spent all of his life on the farm. He belonged to that early group of pioneers who cleared the timber and broke the prairie sod for the more modern civilization. Since he came to this section nearly two generations have come and gone. Those whom he knew in childhood and youth, most of them have moved out of the community or have been called by death. He was the father of a large family. A host of loved ones were ever near. For half a century his companion journeyed the pathway of the pioneer with him. Now she must journey the rest of her earthly pilgrimage alone. And yet not alone, for four generations share her sorrow and can bring her the ministry of earthly comfort and consolation.