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John Wilson Scott

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Name	John Wilson Scott
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	22 Jan 1815	Jackson, Tennessee, United States
Marriage		to Mahala Atherton
Death`^?`	11 Mar 1897	DeWitt, Illinois, United States

References

John Wilson Scott, III, in Find A Grave.
Sketch John W. Scott, in Portrait and biographical album of De Witt and Piatt Counties, Ill: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county : together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States and governors of the state. (Chicago, Ill.: Chapman Bros., 1891, c1885)
Pages 611, 612.
Sketch of Andrew J. Vinson, in Portrait and biographical album of De Witt and Piatt Counties, Ill: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county : together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States and governors of the state. (Chicago, Ill.: Chapman Bros., 1891, c1885)
Pages 407, 408.

The maternal grandparents of our subject John and Nancy (Keith) Scott, natives of South Carolina, and the former a Revolutionary soldier. They went from their native State to Tennessee thence to Indiana, and about 1818 came to this State on pack-horses. They established themselves in Sangamon County, but about a decade later changed their residence to DeWitt County, and spent the remainder of their lives in Waynesville Township.