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- HISTORY: 1883 History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio, Fairfield
(SON DR. HERVEY SCOTT) FAIRFIELD COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
PAGE 355
...SCOTT, DR. HERVEY, was born at Oldtown, Greene county, Ohio, January 30,
1809. Until the close of his seventeenth year he worked on the farm with his
father, enduring the hardships, privations and struggles of purely frontier
life. His early education, such as it was, was received in the little rough log
school-houses of the pioneer age, by the light of oiled paper windows. In
February, 1826, he went to live in the Mitton family, in South Charleston,
Clark county, Ohio, to go to school and learn the trade of manufacturing
spinning wheels. In 1833 he commenced the study of the medical profession, and
in 1836 went into the practice. Two years later he changed his profession to
that of dentistry, and in April, 1839, located in Lancaster, where he has
continued to reside to the present time. On the 7th of November, 1830, he was
first married to Lydia Ann Milton, of South Charleston, who died childless on
the 12th day of June, 1841. On the 10th day of April, 1842, he was a second
time married to Priscilla Ann Crook, of Lancaster, who was the mother of his
children. Her death occurred on the 14th day of July, 1873. In May, 1875, he
was married to his third wife, Sophia Stebbin, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, who
deceased October 10, 1852. His family consisted of six children, viz.: Hervey,
Mary Elizabeth, Sarah M., John Clark, Charles Robert, and William Derbin. Mary
Elizabeth and Charles Robert died respectively at the ages of two years and at
eight months. Hervey died at Chillicothe, November 29, 1873, at the age of
thirty years and seven months. He left a widow (Mrs. Emma Scott) and one son
(Hervey Howe), now residents of Lancaster. Sarah M. married Charles Hutchison,
and is at present residing in Toledo, Ohio. She is the mother of two children
---Mary Hamilton and Helen. Helen died at the age of a little over one month,
in December, 1881. J. Clark married Ida O'Harra, of Columbus, in 1874. They
have had three sons---George, Walter, and Starling. George died in September,
1882, at the age of over seven years. J. Clark resides in Lancaster, and is by
profession a dentist. The ancestors of Dr. Scott first came to America in the
early part of the eighteenth century. On the father's side they were Irish; on
the mother's Scotch. The Scotts settled first in North Carolina, and there his
father was born. The McFarlands, which was the name on the mother's side,
settled in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and there his mother was born. During
the troublous times of the Revolution between Whig and Tory, the grandfather,
being a Whig, sought safety by removing his family to Rockbridge county,
Virginia. Near the close of the century both families, with others, removed to
and settled in Kentucky, first at the Crab Orchard and afterwards on Indian
Creek, near Cynthiana, in Harrison county. The place on which the Scott family
settled, on Indian Creek, is known to this day as "Scott Station," on account
of a garrison of soldiers having been stationed there to protect the frontiers
during the Indian troubles. There the doctor's parents were married in 1800,
and in 1808 emigrated to Ohio and settled at Oldtown, near Xenia. The Scott
family consisted of eleven children, of whom the doctor is the fourth, viz.:
Rachel, Margaret, William, Hervey, Milton, Washington, Cynthia (the two latter
were twins), Clark, Emily, Benjamin, and Joseph. Washington, Clark, Emily, and
Benjamin, died in childhood; Joseph died at the age of eighteen years;
Margaret, the second in age, died at the age of about sixty years; and Rachel,
the first born, died in infancy; four are living ---William and Milton, in
Madison county, Ohio; Cynthia, in Thorntown, Ind.; and Hervey, in Lancaster.
The name of the grandfather Scott was Ahram, and that of grandfather McFarland
was William. All four of the grand parents died respectively between 1812 and
1820, at their homes on Indian Creek. Moses was father of the doctor and Lettie
his mother. The mother died in August, 1842, aged sixty-two years; the father
died in October, 1865, at the age of ninety-two years.
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