William Boyd Scott (1849-1932)

SCOTT, DRAKE, NELSON, COPELAND

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/28/2021 at 21:59:06

From Nevada Evening Journal December 31, 1932 (page 1)

PIONEER FARMER TOOK OWN LIFE

W. B. SCOTT OF SOUTHWEST OF MAXWELL SUICIDED FRIDAY

Special to the Journal.
Maxwell, Dec. 31--W. B. Scott, 83, pioneer of the neighborhood five miles southwest of Maxwell hung himself in a hoghouse at his farm Friday afternoon.

The lifeless body was found by the son Horace when he entered the building about 1:30 in the afternoon. Ill health is ascribed as the cause of the rash act of the aged pioneer, who with his aged wife, had been in failing health for some time.

Mr. Scott had been a prominent farmer and stockman of that north Polk county community for many years.

Mr. Scott leaves his aged wife, daughter Mrs. Bayard Nelson of Cambridge and Mrs. E. A. Copeland of Jacksonville, Ill., and sons Walter of Independence, Carl of Mitchellville and Willis and Horace of the Elwell neighborhood. He also leaves a brother, James Scott of New York.

He was a native of Pennsylvania, a son of Robert and Mary Drake-Scott.

After the Polk county authorities had decided an inquest was unnecessary, the body was brought to the Cooper Funeral home here and prepared for burial.

The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:00 at the Horace Scott home, the old Scott homestead, after which interment will be made in Center Grove cemetery near Elwell.