JOHN W. SCOTT
John W. Scott, son of James and Polly Scott, was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, April 6, 1837. His parents were among the earliest settlers of that county. His father made a farm in Linn, now Bertram township, where he still resides. His wife died there in 1846. John W. Scott was married September 7, 1865, to Miss Eliza Ann Oxley, a native of the same county, born April 30, 1845. Her parents are Perry and Catherine Oxley, the former, born in Fayette county, Kentucky, January 21, 1815, and the latter in Knox county, Indiana, in 1821. They now reside in Linn county, Iowa, where they settled in March, 1838. They were among the earliest pioneers of that county. John W. Scott settled at the time of his marriage, on a part of the homestead where he remained till March, 1882, when he became a resident of Cass county, purchasing then, the farm on which he now lives. It is located on section 11, of Cass township and contains eighty acres. He bought the same of L.K. Andrews. It was well improved at the time of his purchase. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have three children...Olive C., born May 30, 1867; Perry C., born August 22, 1869, and Jennie C., born September 7, 1875. Mr. Scott enlisted August 20, 1862, in the Thirty-first Iowa Infantry, company A., and was mustered out as sergeant. He participated in all the battles of his regiment.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 515-516.
