. A telegram was received from Mobile Tuesday forenoon, stating that Dr. J. T. Scott died at 6 o'clock that morning and that the family, with the body of the deceased would start home .... His daughter Mrs. A. J. Ash, left on Friday and arrived in Mobile Sunday afternoon in time to see her father alive, but unconscious ....
The Holton Recorder, March 3, 1898
John T. Scott, son of Win. T. and Sarah A. Scott, was born at Bainbridge, Indiana, August 8, 1847. When the war broke out in 1861, he was but thirteen years old. He was a steady-going, quiet boy, content, apparently, to grow up and be educated in the common schools and to become a a plodding citizen of the community. This might have been the result had it not been for the war. After his two older brothers enlisted, boy as he was, he was not content to stay at home and go to school, but with his associates was continually talking of enlisting and planning to get into the war. It was early in 1863, we believe, when he concluded he could stand it no longer, and with two or three of his associates nearly his age, with only a dollar or two in his pocket, he quietly left home, walked to the station some eight miles distance to take the train for Indianapolis to enlist. His father having his suspicions aroused, took the first train, and when Tom and the other boys got on at Fillmore, Tom's father was about the first person he saw. Mr. Scott went with them to Indianapolis and took them out to camp where the soldiers had winter quarters. and finally persuaded them to return home with him. This experience did not, however, cure the boys of their desire to be soldiers or quench their patriotism. Again months later, in August we believe, they slipped off again and this time they enlisted in the 115th Indiana Infantry for six months. The regiment was sent to East Tennessee, where the severest hardships were encountered on account of lack of supplies of rations and clothing. When the time expired Scott, who was among the number that survived the exposure and destitution, was discharged, after eight months service. This did not cure him or make him contented to stay home, for three months later he again enlisted, this time in the I8th Indiana Battery, for three years or during the war. At his second enlistment he was only seventeen years old, but had already seen and endured service enough to make him a veteran. The writer of this had just recovered from a long severe attack of sickness, and was in Chattanooga returning to his battery from a hospital at Lookout Mountain. While waiting for a train he took a walk and accidentally ran across seven recruits, all boys from sixteen to nineteen years of age. Among them were a brother, two cousins, Tom Scott and three other neighbor boys. It is unnecessary to say that they were rejoiced at the opportunity of being taken in charge and of getting speedy transportation to the front, which at that time was Atlanta. The boys were young but all made good soldiers and served with credit until the end of the war, and were honorably discharged. After the war the subject of our sketch spent a year in school at Middleton, Massachusetts, and then entered the office of Dr. J. B. Cross, Bainbridge, Ind., as a student of medicine. After graduating he practiced 8 years or so at Ashbys Station, now called Roachdale, and then came to Kansas in the summer of 1870, settling in this city. While at Ashbys, he was married to Miss Ann Shackelford, who died in the fall of 1873, leaving a two year old son, Fred. Some two or three years later the doctor was married to Miss Flora (?), with three children, Mrs. Sadie Ash, Don Wallace and Thomas Roswell, are left to mourn ....for many years held the position of local surgeon of the Rock Island, Union Pacific and Northwestern railroads .... the family went to Mobile to visit Mrs. Scott's parents. They had been there about two months without any perceptible benefit, when he was suddenly taken with brain fever. The attack came on Tuesday, Feb. 23d. He lived, unconscious most of the time, just weak and died Tuesday morning, March Y -- Dr. John T. Scott was laid in the cemetery accompanied by the impressive Masonic burial ritual.
The Holton Recorder, March 10, 1898
.... Dr. Scott leaves three brothers, J. A., Howard S. and Frank, S. Scott, and two sisters, Mrs. M. M. Beck and Mrs. M. A. Hand....
The Holton Weekly Signal, March 9, 1898.
The Holton Recorder, March 3, 1898
John T. Scott, son of Win. T. and Sarah A. Scott, was born at Bainbridge, Indiana, August 8, 1847. When the war broke out in 1861, he was but thirteen years old. He was a steady-going, quiet boy, content, apparently, to grow up and be educated in the common schools and to become a a plodding citizen of the community. This might have been the result had it not been for the war. After his two older brothers enlisted, boy as he was, he was not content to stay at home and go to school, but with his associates was continually talking of enlisting and planning to get into the war. It was early in 1863, we believe, when he concluded he could stand it no longer, and with two or three of his associates nearly his age, with only a dollar or two in his pocket, he quietly left home, walked to the station some eight miles distance to take the train for Indianapolis to enlist. His father having his suspicions aroused, took the first train, and when Tom and the other boys got on at Fillmore, Tom's father was about the first person he saw. Mr. Scott went with them to Indianapolis and took them out to camp where the soldiers had winter quarters. and finally persuaded them to return home with him. This experience did not, however, cure the boys of their desire to be soldiers or quench their patriotism. Again months later, in August we believe, they slipped off again and this time they enlisted in the 115th Indiana Infantry for six months. The regiment was sent to East Tennessee, where the severest hardships were encountered on account of lack of supplies of rations and clothing. When the time expired Scott, who was among the number that survived the exposure and destitution, was discharged, after eight months service. This did not cure him or make him contented to stay home, for three months later he again enlisted, this time in the I8th Indiana Battery, for three years or during the war. At his second enlistment he was only seventeen years old, but had already seen and endured service enough to make him a veteran. The writer of this had just recovered from a long severe attack of sickness, and was in Chattanooga returning to his battery from a hospital at Lookout Mountain. While waiting for a train he took a walk and accidentally ran across seven recruits, all boys from sixteen to nineteen years of age. Among them were a brother, two cousins, Tom Scott and three other neighbor boys. It is unnecessary to say that they were rejoiced at the opportunity of being taken in charge and of getting speedy transportation to the front, which at that time was Atlanta. The boys were young but all made good soldiers and served with credit until the end of the war, and were honorably discharged. After the war the subject of our sketch spent a year in school at Middleton, Massachusetts, and then entered the office of Dr. J. B. Cross, Bainbridge, Ind., as a student of medicine. After graduating he practiced 8 years or so at Ashbys Station, now called Roachdale, and then came to Kansas in the summer of 1870, settling in this city. While at Ashbys, he was married to Miss Ann Shackelford, who died in the fall of 1873, leaving a two year old son, Fred. Some two or three years later the doctor was married to Miss Flora (?), with three children, Mrs. Sadie Ash, Don Wallace and Thomas Roswell, are left to mourn ....for many years held the position of local surgeon of the Rock Island, Union Pacific and Northwestern railroads .... the family went to Mobile to visit Mrs. Scott's parents. They had been there about two months without any perceptible benefit, when he was suddenly taken with brain fever. The attack came on Tuesday, Feb. 23d. He lived, unconscious most of the time, just weak and died Tuesday morning, March Y -- Dr. John T. Scott was laid in the cemetery accompanied by the impressive Masonic burial ritual.
The Holton Recorder, March 10, 1898
.... Dr. Scott leaves three brothers, J. A., Howard S. and Frank, S. Scott, and two sisters, Mrs. M. M. Beck and Mrs. M. A. Hand....
The Holton Weekly Signal, March 9, 1898.
. A telegram was received from Mobile Tuesday forenoon, stating that Dr. J. T. Scott died at 6 o'clock that morning and that the family, with the body of the deceased would start home .... His daughter Mrs. A. J. Ash, left on Friday and arrived in Mobile Sunday afternoon in time to see her father alive, but unconscious ....
The Holton Recorder, March 3, 1898
John T. Scott, son of Win. T. and Sarah A. Scott, was born at Bainbridge, Indiana, August 8, 1847. When the war broke out in 1861, he was but thirteen years old. He was a steady-going, quiet boy, content, apparently, to grow up and be educated in the common schools and to become a a plodding citizen of the community. This might have been the result had it not been for the war. After his two older brothers enlisted, boy as he was, he was not content to stay at home and go to school, but with his associates was continually talking of enlisting and planning to get into the war. It was early in 1863, we believe, when he concluded he could stand it no longer, and with two or three of his associates nearly his age, with only a dollar or two in his pocket, he quietly left home, walked to the station some eight miles distance to take the train for Indianapolis to enlist. His father having his suspicions aroused, took the first train, and when Tom and the other boys got on at Fillmore, Tom's father was about the first person he saw. Mr. Scott went with them to Indianapolis and took them out to camp where the soldiers had winter quarters. and finally persuaded them to return home with him. This experience did not, however, cure the boys of their desire to be soldiers or quench their patriotism. Again months later, in August we believe, they slipped off again and this time they enlisted in the 115th Indiana Infantry for six months. The regiment was sent to East Tennessee, where the severest hardships were encountered on account of lack of supplies of rations and clothing. When the time expired Scott, who was among the number that survived the exposure and destitution, was discharged, after eight months service. This did not cure him or make him contented to stay home, for three months later he again enlisted, this time in the I8th Indiana Battery, for three years or during the war. At his second enlistment he was only seventeen years old, but had already seen and endured service enough to make him a veteran. The writer of this had just recovered from a long severe attack of sickness, and was in Chattanooga returning to his battery from a hospital at Lookout Mountain. While waiting for a train he took a walk and accidentally ran across seven recruits, all boys from sixteen to nineteen years of age. Among them were a brother, two cousins, Tom Scott and three other neighbor boys. It is unnecessary to say that they were rejoiced at the opportunity of being taken in charge and of getting speedy transportation to the front, which at that time was Atlanta. The boys were young but all made good soldiers and served with credit until the end of the war, and were honorably discharged. After the war the subject of our sketch spent a year in school at Middleton, Massachusetts, and then entered the office of Dr. J. B. Cross, Bainbridge, Ind., as a student of medicine. After graduating he practiced 8 years or so at Ashbys Station, now called Roachdale, and then came to Kansas in the summer of 1870, settling in this city. While at Ashbys, he was married to Miss Ann Shackelford, who died in the fall of 1873, leaving a two year old son, Fred. Some two or three years later the doctor was married to Miss Flora (?), with three children, Mrs. Sadie Ash, Don Wallace and Thomas Roswell, are left to mourn ....for many years held the position of local surgeon of the Rock Island, Union Pacific and Northwestern railroads .... the family went to Mobile to visit Mrs. Scott's parents. They had been there about two months without any perceptible benefit, when he was suddenly taken with brain fever. The attack came on Tuesday, Feb. 23d. He lived, unconscious most of the time, just weak and died Tuesday morning, March Y -- Dr. John T. Scott was laid in the cemetery accompanied by the impressive Masonic burial ritual.
The Holton Recorder, March 10, 1898
.... Dr. Scott leaves three brothers, J. A., Howard S. and Frank, S. Scott, and two sisters, Mrs. M. M. Beck and Mrs. M. A. Hand....
The Holton Weekly Signal, March 9, 1898.
The Holton Recorder, March 3, 1898
John T. Scott, son of Win. T. and Sarah A. Scott, was born at Bainbridge, Indiana, August 8, 1847. When the war broke out in 1861, he was but thirteen years old. He was a steady-going, quiet boy, content, apparently, to grow up and be educated in the common schools and to become a a plodding citizen of the community. This might have been the result had it not been for the war. After his two older brothers enlisted, boy as he was, he was not content to stay at home and go to school, but with his associates was continually talking of enlisting and planning to get into the war. It was early in 1863, we believe, when he concluded he could stand it no longer, and with two or three of his associates nearly his age, with only a dollar or two in his pocket, he quietly left home, walked to the station some eight miles distance to take the train for Indianapolis to enlist. His father having his suspicions aroused, took the first train, and when Tom and the other boys got on at Fillmore, Tom's father was about the first person he saw. Mr. Scott went with them to Indianapolis and took them out to camp where the soldiers had winter quarters. and finally persuaded them to return home with him. This experience did not, however, cure the boys of their desire to be soldiers or quench their patriotism. Again months later, in August we believe, they slipped off again and this time they enlisted in the 115th Indiana Infantry for six months. The regiment was sent to East Tennessee, where the severest hardships were encountered on account of lack of supplies of rations and clothing. When the time expired Scott, who was among the number that survived the exposure and destitution, was discharged, after eight months service. This did not cure him or make him contented to stay home, for three months later he again enlisted, this time in the I8th Indiana Battery, for three years or during the war. At his second enlistment he was only seventeen years old, but had already seen and endured service enough to make him a veteran. The writer of this had just recovered from a long severe attack of sickness, and was in Chattanooga returning to his battery from a hospital at Lookout Mountain. While waiting for a train he took a walk and accidentally ran across seven recruits, all boys from sixteen to nineteen years of age. Among them were a brother, two cousins, Tom Scott and three other neighbor boys. It is unnecessary to say that they were rejoiced at the opportunity of being taken in charge and of getting speedy transportation to the front, which at that time was Atlanta. The boys were young but all made good soldiers and served with credit until the end of the war, and were honorably discharged. After the war the subject of our sketch spent a year in school at Middleton, Massachusetts, and then entered the office of Dr. J. B. Cross, Bainbridge, Ind., as a student of medicine. After graduating he practiced 8 years or so at Ashbys Station, now called Roachdale, and then came to Kansas in the summer of 1870, settling in this city. While at Ashbys, he was married to Miss Ann Shackelford, who died in the fall of 1873, leaving a two year old son, Fred. Some two or three years later the doctor was married to Miss Flora (?), with three children, Mrs. Sadie Ash, Don Wallace and Thomas Roswell, are left to mourn ....for many years held the position of local surgeon of the Rock Island, Union Pacific and Northwestern railroads .... the family went to Mobile to visit Mrs. Scott's parents. They had been there about two months without any perceptible benefit, when he was suddenly taken with brain fever. The attack came on Tuesday, Feb. 23d. He lived, unconscious most of the time, just weak and died Tuesday morning, March Y -- Dr. John T. Scott was laid in the cemetery accompanied by the impressive Masonic burial ritual.
The Holton Recorder, March 10, 1898
.... Dr. Scott leaves three brothers, J. A., Howard S. and Frank, S. Scott, and two sisters, Mrs. M. M. Beck and Mrs. M. A. Hand....
The Holton Weekly Signal, March 9, 1898.
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