Family/Spouse: Walter Vermillion. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"JAMES WILLIAM SCOTT;http://members.tripod.com/debmurray/putnam/putbioref-18.htm#jscott.
The career of the gentleman whose name introduces this sketchillustrates forcibly the possibilities that are open to the man whopossesses a sound mind and well balanced judgment and the requisiteenergy to direct the same in their proper channels. It also provesthat ambitious perseverance, steadfastness of purpose and untiringindustry will eventually be rewarded and that true success is thelegitimate result of individual effort. James William Scott has led avery strenuous life, replete at times with stirring incidents akin tothe tragic, although he has never indulged in self-laudation norattempted to make capital of his many thrilling experiences. He is infact a man of quiet demeanor and all of his relations with his fellowshave been characterized by that becoming modesty which marks theunobtrusive though true and courteous gentleman.
Mr. Scott is a native of Bath county, Kentucky. born near the town ofBethel on July 11, 1843. His father, George Washington Scott, also anative of the above county, was of Scotch-Irish lineage, hisgrandparents immigrating to this country from Ireland many years agoand settling presumably in Virginia.
Minerva Rogers, wife of George W. Scott and mother of the subject, wasa daughter of William Rogers, Jr., whose father, William Rogers, Sr.,was a companion of Daniel Boone and was with that intrepidbackwoodsman and hunter when his little company of settlers werebesieged by the Indians on the Kentucky Run, not far from the presentsite of Richmond. The Rogers family originally settled in Virginia,near Culpeper Court House, where William Rogers, Jr., was born whilethe father was being besieged in the block house as stated above.
When about eight years of age William Rogers, Jr., removed with hisparents to Bath county, Kentucky, where he grew to maturity on a farmwhich was originally a cane brake in a dense, unbroken wilderness. Erea house could be erected, a space had to be cleared and when finishedthe little frontier dwelling was not as high as the growth of cane bywhich surrounded. After residing on this place for a few years theelder Rogers purchased a farm on Bald Eagle creek near where thatstream empties into Flat creek, and it was there that the subject'sgrandparents spent the remainder of their days. His wife dying, Mr.Rogers, Sr., subsequently remarried and lived to a ripe old age,leaving an honored name which his descendants prize as a pricelessheritage.
William Rogers, Jr., served in Col. "Dick" Johnson's regiment duringthe war of 1812 and was at the battle of the Thames, where thecelebrated Indian chief Tecumseh lost his life, killed, it isbelieved, by the Colonel himself. Later he bought a farm in Bathcounty, Kentucky, near his old home where he reared a large family andspent the residue of his life, dying when nearly one hundred years ofage.
The marriage of George Washington Scott and Minerva Rogers wassolemnized about 1840, the union being terminated by the death of thewife four years later. Subsequently Mr. Scott married Elizabeth Baxterand moved to Putnam county, Indiana, settling at Cloverdale, where hedevoted his attention to agricultural pursuits until his death, whichoccurred at Greencastle in the year 1863.
James William Scott was less than a year old when his mother died andwhile still quite young was brought by his father to Putnam county,where he spent his childhood and early youth. In 1859, hen a lad ofsixteen, he ran away from home and returned to Kentucky, where hebegan to make his own way as a farm laborer, receiving ten dollars permonth and perquisites. Determined to surmount his environment andbecome something more than a mere passive agency in the world, heworked hard, gained the confidence of his employer and, with theprestige of his grandfather, a wealthy and influential farmer andslave-holder who lived near by soon found himself on the high-road tosuccess. Espousing the cause of the South at the breaking out of theCivil War, he enlisted in September, 1862, in the Ninth RegimentKentucky Volunteers, Confederate States Army, which formed a part ofthe army under the command of the famous Confederate leader, Gen. JohnMorgan.
Mr. Scott shared all the vicissitudes and hardships in which theregiment took part and was with his intrepid commander in many of theskirmishes, battles and daring actions for which he was noted, one ofwhich was the capture of two thousand five hundred Federals when hisown force numbered less than eight hundred men, and this too in theface of three regiments of Federals who arrived on the scene in timeto see Morgan retire with all of his prisoners. While returning fromthis raid Mr. Scott had his feet so badly frozen that all of histoe-nails came off, also much of the flesh. He had ridden two days andtwo nights without rest and when the men halted he threw himself uponthe ground and almost instantly fell into a profound sleep. On beingawakened by some of his comrades his feet and limbs were so badlyfrozen that he could not walk; being carried to a farm house near by,he sat for three days with his feet in a tub of cold water, atreatment which proved only partially successful as he was enabled towalk only with great difficulty and much suffering at the expirationof the time indicated, because of the fearful condition of his feet,which the meanwhile had become black and sloughed off until the bonesin several places were exposed. He dressed himself on learning of theFederal advance and followed in the rear until the two armies becameengaged at Stone River. In the excitement of the battle he forgot allabout his injured members and, regardless of the intensely coldweather, he again waded through deep, freezing water which left him inmuch worse condition than before.
At the battle of Missionary Ridge Mr. Scott's regiment was on theextreme Confederate right and there, as elsewhere, he proved all thata brave and intrepid leader should be, fighting with determinationuntil his command was ordered to retreat before the greater force ofthe enemy. He also participated in the battle of Buzzard Roost,Resaca, Peach Tree Creek (where his regiment forced the fighting untiloutflanked), Big Shanty, Kenesaw Mountain, where he was a shortdistance from the spot where General Polk met his death, and numerousother engagements and skirmishes. At the time of Morgan's raid throughsouthern Indiana and Ohio, his regiment was so worn out that theGeneral did not deem it fit for such strenuous duty, accordingly itremained in the South in the cause of the Confederacy.
At the battle of Peach Tree Creek, where, as already stated, hisregiment led the advance and forced the fighting, Mr. Scott, althoughtoo sick for duty, remained on the field performing valuable serviceuntil the close of the engagement. He was then ordered by thephysician to leave the ranks and care for himself until able to rejoinhis command; accordingly, he retired to a farm house where for someweeks he lay quite sick. While there he learned of the fall ofAtlanta, which doubtless had a tendency to hasten his recovery, as hesoon afterwards started to rejoin the army, but did not overtake hisregiment until it had reached Savannah in the winter of 1864-5. Fromthat city the Confederate forces fell back through the Carolinas toColumbia, where Mr. Scott was one of the last to cross the bridgebefore it was burned. After the battle of Goldsboro, President Davisshipped his Confederate treasury, including four wagon loads of speciemoney, to Raleigh, and he called on General Wheeler for his bestbrigade to escort him and his entire cabinet and valuable treasures tothat city. General Dibree's brigade, of which Mr. Scott was a member,was selected for this honor, and Mr. Scott guarded these treasures forabout four days. With other members of his company he receivedtwenty-six dollars of this money, the bulk of it being captured withPresident Davis. This duty being carried out, the command was orderedby the Federals to go no further as the movement constituted aviolation of Lee's terms of surrender. After crossing the Savannahriver at the place where General Greene crossed in the Revolution, theforce intrusted with the above mission yielded to the Federals, eachman being permitted to retain such personal property as was in hispossession when paroled in May, 1865. At Chattanooga, where they wereescorted by a lieutenant and two privates, many of the paroled menlost their property, their horses and saddles being taken by Federalofficers, but later, by order of General Thomas, all of theirbelongings were restored to them, the subject recovering a saddle,bridle, a horse and a mule. Disposing of the latter animal for fortydollars, he purchased an entire suit of clothes, which he donned assoon as possible, making the exchange in the woods nearby, where heleft his old garments together with all of their crawling inhabitants.
In January, 1866, Mr. Scott returned to Cloverdale and has since madethis village his home. On May 30, 1867, he was united in marriage withEliza M. Harrah, whose birth occurred about two and a half milesnorthwest of Cloverdale, where her father, Pressley Harrah, had longbeen a resident, the latter a son of a Kentucky pioneer who enteredland and made a settlement in Warren township, at a very early day.After his marriage Mr. Scott farmed as a renter until obtaining astart in the world, later, in 1873, purchasing eighty acres in Warrentownship, which with an eighty-acre tract inherited by his wifeenabled him to engage in agriculture and stock raising upon a moreextensive scale. He added to his holdings at intervals until at onetime he owned six hundred acres of valuable real estate in Putnamcounty, besides other valuable property which made him one of thewell-to-do men of the community.
Mr. Scott has been quite successful in all of his transactions,possessing, as he does, business ability of a high order and his mottohas always been to live within the income and make every dollar earnedproduce another. He has added materially to his fortune by trading,buying and selling livestock and by judicious investments in land andother kinds of property. He lived on his farm in Warren township untilSeptember, 1907, when he purchased a healthful and attractive home inCloverdale, where he has since resided, his wife having died in theyear 1897.
To Mr. and Mrs. Scott were born nine children, namely: Samuel L., atelegraph operator at Jordan village on the Monon line; he marriedLettie Snyder and is the father of four children, of whom two areliving, Scott and Nina. William, the second son, is a farmer near ClayCity, Indiana; his wife, formerly Mary Rule, died after bearing himthree children, of whom Everett and Thomas survive. Later hecontracted a marriage with Edith Hilburn, the union resulting in thebirth of three children, Margaret, Ralph and Cecil. Minerva is thewife of Charles Emory Cooper and lives in Warren township, where herhusband is engaged in farming. Their family consists of sevenchildren, viz.: Wilbur, Laura, Ethel, Emmett, Ruth, Leslie and EugeneScott. Margaret Frances, who became the wife of James Coston, of TerreHaute, is the mother of three children, Dwight, Reese and Bononni.Lucy Ellen, now Mrs. Harley Harris, lives in Jefferson township andhas three children, Forest, Harrold and Mabel Esther. James B., wholives on the home farm in Warren township, married Ethel Truesdell andis the father of a daughter, Lucille, and a son, Marcellus. Charles P.is unmarried and lives with his brother William on what is known asthe Eel River bottoms; Elizabeth, wife of Walter Vermillion, residesin Indianapolis; Mary Jane departed this life in 1398, at the age oftwenty-three.
Mr. Scott has been a life-long Republican, though not an office seekernor aspirant for any kind of public distinction. Religiously, thePresbyterian church holds his creed with which body his wife was alsoidentified.
"Weiks History of Putnam County Indiana" by Jesse W. Weik. 1910
B.F. Bowen & Co., Publishers, Indianapolis IN"

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: William A. Scott
Home in 1880: Warren, Putnam, Indiana
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870
Birthplace: Indiana
Relation to Head of Household: Son
Father's Name: William
Father's birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Name: Elisabeth M.
Mother's birthplace: Indiana
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
William Scott 36
Elisabeth M. Scott 31
Samuel L. Scott 12
William A. Scott 10
Menerva Scott 6
Mary J. Scott 4
Margret Scott 2
Eliza E. Scott 4M
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Warren, Putnam, Indiana;Roll: T9_306; Family History Film: 1254306; Page: 543.4000;Enumeration District: 163; Image: 0549.
Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [databaseon-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.

Putnam County, Indiana USGenWeb Project; http://ibssg.org/putnam/
CEMETERY
Cloverdale Cemetery
Section IV
Typed by Angel Eubank, Charleston, IL
James W. b. July 11, 1843 d. Mar 6, 1926
[Transcribed 13 March 2008, SLJuhl, Compiler]

*James married Elisabeth Eliza M. Harrah on 30 May 1867 in Putnam County, Indiana; Per Biography. Elisabeth (daughter of Pressley Harrah) was born on 3 Feb 1850 in Cloverdale, Putnam County, Indiana; died on 13 Aug 1904 in Putnam County, Indiana; was buried in Aug 1904 in Cloverdale Cemetery, Section Iv, Putnam County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Putnam County, Indiana USGenWeb Project; http://ibssg.org/putnam/
CEMETERY
Cloverdale Cemetery
Section IV
Typed by Angel Eubank, Charleston, IL
Eliza M. HARAH, w/o J.W. b. Feb 3, 1850 d. Aug 13, 1904"
[Transcribed 13 March 2008, SLJuhl, Compiler]

Notes:

"The marriage of George Washington Scott and Minerva Rogers wassolemnized about 1840, the union being terminated by the death of thewife four years later. Subsequently Mr. Scott married Elizabeth Baxterand moved to Putnam county, Indiana, settling at Cloverdale, where hedevoted his attention to agricultural pursuits until his death, whichoccurred at Greencastle in the year 1863." "Weiks History of PutnamCounty Indiana" by Jesse W. Weik. 1910, B.F. Bowen & Co., Publishers,Indianapolis IN" See.usgenweb.com Indiana-Putnam County.
NOTE: See grandson James William Scott's notes.

20 June 1860 United States Federal Census
Name: George W Scott
Age in 1860: 39
Birth Year: abt 1821
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1860: Greencastle, Putnam, Indiana
Gender: Male
Post Office: Greencastle
George W. Scott 39, M, Teamster, 0-150, KY
Elizabeth 33, F, Housekeeper, KY
Jemima 9, F, KY
Elzira 7, F, KY
Edmond B. 5, M, KY
Wallace 2, M, IN
Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Greencastle, Putnam,Indiana; Roll: M653_291; Page: 361; Image: 361; Dwelling 208/208; Page33. Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [databaseon-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.

*George married Minerva Rogers about 1840 in Possibly Bath County, Kentucky. Minerva (daughter of William Rogers, Jr.) died about 1844 in Bath County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"When about eight years of age William Rogers, Jr., removed with hisparents to Bath county, Kentucky, where he grew to maturity on a farmwhich was originally a cane brake in a dense, unbroken wilderness. Erea house could be erected, a space had to be cleared and when finishedthe little frontier dwelling was not as high as the growth of cane bywhich surrounded. After residing on this place for a few years theelder Rogers purchased a farm on Bald Eagle creek near where thatstream empties into Flat creek, and it was there that the subject'sgrandparents spent the remainder of their days. His wife dying, Mr.Rogers, Sr., subsequently remarried and lived to a ripe old age,leaving an honored name which his descendants prize as a pricelessheritage.
William Rogers, Jr., served in Col. "Dick" Johnson's regiment duringthe War of 1812 and was at the battle of the Thames, where thecelebrated Indian chief Tecumseh lost his life, killed, it isbelieved, by the Colonel himself. Later he bought a farm in Bathcounty, Kentucky, near his old home where he reared a large family andspent the residue of his life, dying when nearly one hundred years ofage."
"Weiks History of Putnam County Indiana" by Jesse W. Weik. 1910, B.F.Bowen & Co., Publishers, Indianapolis IN" See.usgenweb.comIndiana-Putnam County.
NOTE: See grandson James William Scott's notes.

Birth:
; Near The Culpeper Court House