NOLAN COUNTY DEATH CERTIFICATE

name: Walter Thomas Scott
death date: 25 Mar 1967
death place: Residence, Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
cause of death: Arteriosclerotic cardio-renal disease with failure
gender: Male
race: White
death age: 82 years 9 months 24 days
estimated birth date:
birth date: 31 May 1884
birthplace: Van Zandt County, Texas
marital status: Married
spouse's name: Eunice Scott
father's name: James B. Scott
father's birthplace:
mother's name: Mollie Short
mother's birthplace:
occupation: Retired
place of residence: 607 Bowie, Sweetwater, Nolan Texas
cemetery: Sweetwater
burial place: Sweetwater, Texas
burial date: 26 Mar 1967
additional relatives/informant: Eunice Scott (wife)
film number: 2138495
digital film number: 4027135
image number: 505
reference number: CN18977
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MARY EUNICE HOOVER SCOTT
From FIRST 100 YEARS NOLAN COUNTY TEXAS
(1985, Nolan County Historical Society)
Page 350

Mary Hoover was born 29 September 1897 near Mineola, Wood County, Texas. She was delivered by a Negro midwife named Maragel. Mary first came west in 1903 by wagon. Later, she moved east to Winona, Smith County, Texas. Later, she moved again, this time to Mineola, Wood County, Texas. In 1906, Mary, with her family, moved west again. Her mother, with the other children, went by train to Abilene. Her half brother, she and her father went by wagon to Ft. Worth. Then, by train they went to Eskota, Texas. They arrived about 5 AM. Snow, sleet and ice covered everything. They walked to her uncle's place (about 9 miles), where her mother and the other children were living. Mary Hoover and her family picked cotton for their room and board. They moved into the old home place near Sweetwater on Thanksgiving Day, 1906. The old home place only had three rooms, and 18 people lived there. Mary picked cotton until the 6th of March that year. She started to school on March 8th and dropped out three weeks later with the measles.

Mary Eunice Hoover married Walter Thomas Scott on 26 December 1926. She now resides in Sweetwater.

Submitted by Kenneth W. Hollis and Mary Eunice Hoover Scott
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THE SCOTTS OF SWEETWATER
Page 353

Scott or Scotch (English) means "one who came from Scotland". Originally, the name included the Irish, "one who came from Ireland".

We begin our story of the Scotts of Sweetwater with J. D. Scott. J. D. was born in North Carolina in 1813. He had five children: R. T. Scott, A. C. Scott, A. H. (or R. H.) Scott, G. W. Scott, and my great-great-grandfather, Samuel T. Scott.

Sam was born in Mississippi on 23 Aug 1839. He married Leonora Fyffe. Her father was born in Scotland. Sam and Leonora had eight children, Thomas B. Scott (born in 1865 in Harrison County, Texas); Mary A. Scott (born in Harrison County, Texas, in 1868, married Leroy Weatherford); Elva S. Scott (born 4 January 1871 in Harrison County, Texas); Robert Scott (born in Harrison County, Texas in 1871); W. T. (Tig) Scott (born in Harrison County, Texas, in 1872, married Lena Osborn); Virgil Homer Scott (born in 1877); Melissa Scott (born in Texas 1879, believed to have been carried off by Indians when a young girl); and my great-grandfather, James Beaugard Scott.

James was born on 29 April 1861 in Harrison County, Texas. He married Molly Sharp in VanZandt County, Texas on 29 January 1882. James and Molly had eight children. They are James Parvey Scott (born 23 March 1886, died 11 April 1961, married Georgia Martin); Florence L. Scott (born 22 February 1888, died 11 Feb 1903); John N. Scott (born 31 December 1889, died the same day); Claude Echols Scott (born 16 November 1890, died 1 March 1963, married Rosie Coble, 1 September 1917); Colbert L. Scott (born 23 June 1893, died 21 September 1961, married Ethel Cox); Mary Vula Scott (born 13 August 1895, married Joe Hedden); Louie B. Scott (born 16 December 1897, died 7 April 1966, married Maude Whitfield); and my grandfather, Walter Thomas Scott.

James Beaugard Scott married Pearl Katheryne Armstrong Brewer on 23 December 1903. They had six children. They are Ruby Delia Scott (born 15 September 1905, died 16 September 1955, married 1. Walter Perman, 2. Pleas Mann); Lena Katie Scott (born 24 April 1907, married Adolphus Marvin Campbell); Marvin Leslie Scott (born 11 May 1909, died 26 March 1938, married Minnie Pearl Hughes, 12 February 1931); Orland Fyffe Scott (born 25 October 1911, married Jestena Catherina Burkett, 23 April 1932); Lora Pauline Scott (born 2 December 1913, married John Collier Fry); and Bernice Orlene Scott (born 9 October 1916, married William David Calvert). James Beaugard Scott died on 7 May 1927. Pearl died the next year on 2 November, 1928.

Walter Thomas Scott, my grandfather, was born 31 May 1884 in VanZandt County, Texas. On 22 July 1909, he married Emma Agnes Wood in Nolan County, Texas. Walter and Agnes had four children. They are Ramond Randalph Scott (born 4 July 1910, married Oleta McFarland); Dorman Monroe Scott (born 14 February 1917, in Sweetwater, married Myrtle Wilkinson); Arland R. Scott (born 11 December 1920 in Sweetwater, married Marie Reid); and my mother, Ruby Lee Scott (born 1 Jan. 1912, in Sweetwater).

Emma Agnes died 30 March 1923. Walter then married Mary Eunice Hoover. They had no children. Walter died 25 March 1967 (Easter Sunday) in Sweetwater.

Mary Eunice resides in Sweetwater.

My mother married Ernest Jackson Hollis in Sweetwater on 16 September 1934. Mother and Dad had four children, Delbert, Shirley, Ernest and Ken.

Submitted by Kenneth W. Hollis
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