Effie Willetta Leese and Archibald Alfred Scott

ARCHIBALD ALFRED SCOTT, son of MARIA FRANCES CRAWFORD and WILLIAM CLEMENT SCOTT SR., was born September 3, 1864 in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana,¹⁷⁸ and died September 22, 1910 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.¹⁷⁸ He is buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.^{32, 178, 456}

He married EFFIE WILLETTA LEESE on October 8, 1891 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska,¹⁷⁶⁷ daughter of MIRANDA LILLY WILSON and WILLIAM HENRY LEESE. She was born March 3, 1870 in Palmyra, Nebraska,³² and died June 5, 1959.¹⁸⁰ She is buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.^{32, 180, 456}

• Descendant Reports
  • William Scott Descendant Report (Ancestor of Archibald A. Scott)
  • Edward Erwin Descendant Report (Ancestor of Archibald A. Scott)
  • Jacob Clements Descendant Report (Ancestor of Archibald A. Scott)
  • William Campbell Descendant Report (Ancestor of Archibald A. Scott)
  • Francis Stuart Descendant Report (Ancestor of Archibald A. Scott)
  • James Crawford Descendant Report (Ancestor of Archibald A. Scott)
  • Timothy Hall Descendant Report (Ancestor of Archibald A. Scott)

Children of EFFIE WILLETTA LEESE and ARCHIBALD ALFRED SCOTT:

1. WILLIAM ADRIAN SCOTT, b. September 3, 1898, Nebraska;⁸ d. January 29, 1965, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado.⁶⁵⁰²

Personal Information

• Archibald Alfred Scott was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska. ¹⁷⁸

Education

Work History

Clubs and Associations

Marriage Announcements and News

Capital City Courier, October 10, 1891²⁰⁵⁶

About forty persons, being the immediate relatives of the contracting parties and their intimate friends, assembled at the residence of Hon. William Leese, 1847 G street Thursday at eleven A.M. to witness the marriage of their daughter Effie Willetta, to Mr. Archibald Alfred Scott, one of the popular tellers in the First National bank. The ceremony was very impressively performed by Rev. H. T. Davis, using the wedding ring, the bridal party marching in to the music of "Mendelssohn's Wedding March." The bride was tastily costumed in cream serge, made princess en train, white slippers and gloves, diamond ornaments and carried in her hand a spray of white roses. After the ceremony, the guests were invited to an elegant dinner, shortly after which the bride and groom departed for a short eastern trip, showered by the guests with the customary handfuls of rice and the proverbial slippers. The present composed an extensive list of valuable and ornamental tokens, among them being a house and lot and a bed room set from the brides parents, hand painted dinner set from the grooms parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Scott Sr. of Ashland, diamond eardrops from Walter A. Leese, uncle of the bride, draft of one hundred dollars from Frank Scott, New York, drafts of fifty dollars each from G. L. and R. M. Scott, Ashland, cut glass water set, Raymond R. Leese, solid silver water set, J. W. Leese and sisters, Parkersburg, W. V. Those present were Hon. and Mrs. William Leese, Messrs. and Mesdames, W. C. Scott, Sr. Ashland, W. C. Scott, jr. Ashland, J. M Stewart, E. Kernes, Harry Porter, Rev. H. T. Davis, Mesdames: A. M. Hickman, Seward, Sam Long, H. H. Shedd, Ashland, W. M. Hover, Tecumseh, L J. Fowler, Misses Clara Leese, Leo Leese, Anna Howland, Seward, Allie M. Davis, Jessie Scott, Ashland, Maggie Scouller, Seward, Lyle Hover, Tecumseh, Maggie English, Clara Carmody, Minnie DePew, Lillian Edgar, Messrs Walter A Leese, G. L. and R. M. Scott, Ashland, Ray Leese, R. B. Wilson and others. Mr. and Mrs. Scott will be at home after November first at 2322 Vine street.

Newspaper Articles

President of The Women's Club, Lincoln, NE 1897-1898

The Club meets 3 p. m., Monday, October 11, 1897, and on alternate Mondays thereafter until the last of April, 1898. Members are reminded that membership tickets are to be presented at the door. Residents of Lincoln shall be admitted to club meetings on membership tickets only.

Non-residents may be admitted as visitors on presentation of their own club ticket. Non-residents, not members of clubs, may be admitted on payment of ten cents.²⁸³

Nebraska State Journal, July 9, 1946¹²⁰

Mrs. Effie L. Scott arrived home Sunday from a 3 week's vacation in California where she visited her sister, Mrs. B. F. Raber, in Berekley. She also spent some time in San Francisco and Oakland.

Obituaries

Nebraska State Journal, September 23, 1910¹⁷⁹

ARCHIBALD SCOTT IS DEAD

Paying Teller of First National Bank Passed Away.

Archibald A. Scott, paying teller of the First National bank of Lincoln, died at 10:50 last night, his death following a relapse occurring at an early morning hour. His wife, young son, mother and one brother from Ashland, were with him when the end came. Mr. Scott was a man of middle age and had been with the bank about twenty years.

Mr. Scott came home about one month ago from a mountain trip, very ill. He called at the office of his physician soon after getting home and was told to go home and go to bed. He was well nigh delirious at that time and the doctor saw symptoms of typho[SUP:]i[:SUP]d fever. Members of his family were called home. The case started out badly but after the fever had run its course improvement began and he was thought to be convalescing. It was thought he was practically out of danger. At an early hour Thursday morning a blood clot formed in the femoral vein of the left leg, cutting off circulation. This caused a shock from which he never recovered. Three Lincoln physicians worked over him most of the day but to no avail.

Mr. Scott came to Lincoln from Ashland where he has relatives. He leaves a wife and son, Adrian.

Nebraska State Journal, September 25, 1910¹⁷⁸

HAD LIVED LONG IN LINCOLN

LATE A. A. SCOTT CAME HERE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUNERAL

Will Be Held From Home at Twentieth and D Streets—Dr. Stein To Have Charge.

The death of Archibaid A. Scott, paying teller of the First National bank which occurred Thursday evening at his home, 2041 D street, takes from Lincoln a man whose cheerfulness, courtesy, and unfailing interest in all fellow-beings will be missed by numberless people, and removes from the bank the last of the men who served during the presidency of John R. Clark. Mr. Scott came to Lincoln twenty-five years ago and held a responsibie position at the First National bank until the time of his death. He was born in Richmond, Ind., on September 3, 1864, and came west to Ashland with his parents a few years later. He began his banking career at Crete but was soon attracted to the larger city of Lincoln. For many years past few men of the city have been more widely known or had more genuine friends. In 1891 Mr. Scott married Mss Effie W. Leese, daughter of ex-Attorney General Leese, and is survived by his wife and one son, Adrian.

Mr. Scott was a man of absolute integrity, remarkable patience, and high ideals. His tastes were of the simplest and his greatest pleasure was found in his home and among his friends, and in the diversions which center around home life. His enjoyment of music was marked. He had a fine baritone voice, which had received some cultivation, and in earlier years sang in some of the church choirs of the city. Much as he enjoyed the singing, however, he gave up the choir practice because of the time taken from his family. He had been a member of a Masonic lodge for many years, and of the Maccabees, and a member of the First Presbyterian church.

Mr. Scott was the youngest of nine children and is the second to he taken. He had never previously been seriously ill, and his constitution was so rugged that his friends did not believe he could succumb. Those of his family to survive him are his mother, Mrs. Maria F. Scott of Atlanta, Ga., who arrived in the city on Thursday, and George Scott, a brother, of Ashland, who was also with him at the end; Will Scott of Ashland, Frank H. Scott, president of the Century Magazine Co., New York city, Hugh C. Scott of Atlanta, Ga., R. M. Scott of Denver, and two sisters, Mrs. R J. Watts of Atlanta and Mrs. Richard Jackson of St. Paul.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon from the family residence, 2041 D street. The Rev. F. S. Stein, an old friend of the Scott family, will conduct the services. The following family friends will serve as pall bearers: Governor Shallenberger, Judge C. B. Letton, W. E. Barkley, Jr., C. C. Quiggle, W. T. Irons and C. F. Harpham. The honorary pall bearers have been chosen as follows from Mr. Scott's associates at the First National bank: H. S. Freeman, Arthur Ryons, Charles Robinson, Frank Parks, Joe L. Burnham, jr, Albert A. Ingalls. Two hymns which were special favorites of Mr. Scott, "I'm a Pilgrim, I'm a Stranger" and "Eternity," will be sang by Mrs. Lillian Helms. Interment will be at Wyuka.

The following relatives are already in the city: Mrs. Maria F. Scott of Atlanta, Ga, and Mrs. M. L. Leese of Denver. Mrs. Leese is the mother of Mrs. Scott and reached Lincoln Friday afternoon. Miss Clara Leese and R. M. Scott of Denver both arrived yesterday and a brother of Mrs. Scott, Ray Leese, of Colorado Springs, is also expected. The others who will be present for the services are Mr. and Mrs. George Scott, Will Scott and daughters, and Clement and John Scott, all from Ashland.

Lincoln Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal, June 6, 1959¹⁸⁰

Mrs. Effie Scott Dies

Social Director At Cornhusker

Mrs. Effie Leese Scott, a native Nebraskan, newspaper and magazine editor and publicity director, died Saturday. Mrs. Scott was Cornhusker Hotel social director from 1932 to 1948.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church, the Rev. C. Vin White officiating. Burial will be in Wyuka Cemetery.

She attended the University of Nebraska, University of Colorado and Columbia University.

She was a life member of the New York Women's Press Club, National Writers Assn., Nebraska Club in New York, honorary member of the Missouri Club in New York, Nebraska Writers Guild, Nebraska Society of Industrial Editors, Gamma Alpha business sorority and International Hotel Women's Executives Assn.

Mrs. Scott was a charter member and organizer of Tuesday Review, a Lincoln literary club; a charter member of the Lincoln Woman's Club; member of Chapter B, PEO, in Tucson; Ariz., and the DAR, a charter member of the Lincoln Quota Club International, a member of the Women's division of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, the Wooden Spoon, University Club and Nebraska Art Assn.

She is survived by a son, William Adrian Scott, and a sister, Mrs. Clara Leese Raber of Berkeley, Calif.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 10, 1870305	Richmond, Wayne, Indiana	William Clement Scott Maria Frances Crawford William Clement Scott Frank Hall Scott Hugh Crawford Scott Archibald Alfred Scott George Louis Scott Richard McDonald Scott Anna Vaughan Scott Harriet J. Scott Jessie Ann Scott
June 3, 1880292	Ashland, Saunders, Nebraska	William Clement Scott Maria Frances Crawford Archibald Alfred Scott George Louis Scott Richard McDonald Scott Anna Vaughan Scott
June 8, 1900177	Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska	Archibald Alfred Scott Effie Willetta Leese William Adrian Scott
April 22, 1910176	Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska	Archibald Alfred Scott Effie Willetta Leese William Adrian Scott
January 12, 1920124	New York City, New York, New York	Effie Willetta Leese
April 2, 1930174	Tucson, Pima, Arizona	Effie Willetta Leese
April 8, 19402756	Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado	Effie Willetta Leese