The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-29

was the daughter of John Rice Jones, one of the Judges of the superior court of Missouri, an eminent lawyer, who figured largely as such and as 3 purchaser of Spanish land grants, and whose name is found frequently in the reports of the U. $. general land office at Washington City in connection herewith. Mrs. Scott died at Scotia farm, in Pope O., Ark, where she was buried on the 9th day of April. 1885. Judge Scott died at the homo of Elijah Truitt 2. Norristown, in said cnrsssy, very sud denly on the 18th day of Mar, 1851, i as before stated. He was there on business, was very suddenly attacked with quinzy and though in good health at the time, died h SIX or eight honrs, and was buried in Dow CT Cemetery in said county. He had five sons and two daughters: Hon. Jno. R. H. Scott. still livfng in Pope County, Q man well known through out the State Of Arkansas, having been a member of the Constitutional Conventions of 1874, previously . member of the State Senate fromPope Conway and Searcy Counties, Clerk for about eight years of the Circuit Court of the former, and Deputy Mar. shal for taking the Census of Pope County in 1880. (The Counties of Yell, Franklin, Scott, Johnson and Logan being then embraced in Pope County His other sons are Au- gustus W. Scott. now deceased, late of Dubuque, Iowa, Geo. s. c. Scott . wholesale dealer in crockery ware living in McGregor, Iowa, and Wal ter Scott living at Modesto Cal, and Henry c. Scott living in Chicago. His daughters are Eliza H. Camp bell, now deceased, wife of Ben H. Campbell, of Chicago, U. 5. Marshal for eight years under Gen. Grant, and Elizabeth A. Jones, wife of Hon. J. Russell Jones, also of Chicago, man of ability and great prominence in Illinois, having been Minister to Bel gium under President Grant, and also U. s. Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois for eight years under President Lincoln, and was collector of Customs at Chicago when General Grants term expired. Jno. R. H. and Augustus w. Scott and Eliza Campbell were born in Missouri, and the others were all born Tn Arkansas, the two youngest at Scotia farm on Arkansas river near (now) Georgetown on the Ft. Smith Ky, in Pope County.
 Judge Andrew Scott was we'll known to all the old settlers of Arkan- sas, having been the first public officer who come to the Territory after his appointment by President Mon roe in 1919 to the office of Judge of the Superior Court of the Territory. He moved in the spring of 1919 with hls family from St. Genevieve, Mo-. to the Pos. of Arkansas and on the 18th day of July, 1919 he assisted in putting into operation the organ ic law, and the first government of the Territory. Arkansas Post being the temporary capitol of the Terri tory. In 1921 Little Rock become the capital and he removed to that place in 1921 ..or 1922. April, 1927, he was made Judge of the first District or Circuit Court of the Territory, and Tn the Spring of 1929 he removed agaln coming up the Arkansas river to the Scotia farm, named above, which he purchased of MackeY, a cherokee Indian, the purchase being only the Indian claim of Mackey, . Cherokee Indian. This was about the time the Indians ceded by treaty this portion of Arkansas Territory, then called Lovely purchase, and just be- fore their removal to the Indian Ter ritory. This farm was called Sco- tia and at that place Judge Scott had post-sffics established named Scotia. His son, J. R. H. Scott, still owns the place, and upon the corner of it is the l.. R. x F. S. flag station Georgetown. Judge Scott was made an assessor soon after the cession or treaty with the Indians, his duty being to assess the improvements made by the Indians upon the lands ceded with and by the Lovely pnr- chase in Pope county then embra
 cling the four additional counties aforenamed. His proceeding