Ellen E. and James A. Scott

JAMES A. SCOTT, son of SARAH LOGAN and JOHN SCOTT, was born May 2, 1820 in Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Virginia,^{3779, 4931} and died November 8, 1900 in Selma, Delaware, Indiana.^{1761, 4931} He is buried in Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana.^{89, 1125, 3779, 4931}

He married ELLEN E. She was born in 1826 in Florida, and died before 1860.

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Children of ELLEN E. and JAMES A. SCOTT:

1. MARY SCOTT, b. 1846, Florida.
2. MARGARET SCOTT, b. 1849, Florida.

Muncie Daily Times, November 9, 1900¹⁷⁶¹

Death of James Scott

James A. Scott, one of the best known citizens of Selma, died at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Scott was 80 years of age. The funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the residence of C. M. Orr, in Selma. The remains will be taken to Richmond where they will be interred in Earlham Cemetery.

Indianapolis News, November 10, 1900³⁷⁷⁹

JUDGE JAMES A. SCOTT.

A Life-Long Democrat, but Voting for McKinley.

SELMA, Ind., November 10.—Judge James A. Scott, making his home here with a nephew, Charles M. Orr, is dead. He was born in 1820, coming to Richmond at an early age with his parents, and reading law in early manhood in the office of Judge Charles H. Test at Centerville. Oliver P. Morton was a fellow student. Judge Scott was admitted to the bar in 1840, and soon after removed to Florida, where he was elected judge, serving for many years. After his return to Indiana he settled at Greencastle, and in 1860 he was a Breckenridge elector in the Greencastle district, stumping the State for the democracy that year. Although a life-long Democrat, he repudiated Bryan in 1896 and refused to vote, but in the last election he insisted upon being carried to the polls, where he cast his ballot for McKinley. The burial will be had at Richmond on Monday.

Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana

James A. Scott is buried with his mother, sister and brother-in-law, Charles M. Orr.