This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Clark, Call, Johnson Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7429/mb.ashx Message Board Post: FREMONT COUNTY SUN. Vol. III No. 10. May 2, 1895. Page 3 Col. 4.--OBITUARY. Died, -- April 25, 1895, John C. Scott, an old settler of Fremont county, who was well and favorably known throughout southwestern Iowa. He will be greatly missed in the community where he has so long been a resident. Mr.Scott possessed all the qualifications of a useful and honored citizen; kind hearted, sympathetic, honest in all his dealings, a man of good judgment, pleasant address and superior business faculties. He was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, August 30, 1813. In 1837 he was married to Malinda Call and in 1838 moved to Platt county, Missouri, and March 3, 1842, came to Fremont county and settled on the farm where he lived until the day of his death. He professed religion and joined the Christian church when quite young. He was the father of eleven children, five are dead and six living. His wife who has been blind for about fourteen years still lives to mourn the loss of a husband and five children. The suriving members of the family have the sympathy of the entire community. The writer was with the deceased a great deal during the last sickness and all that loving hearts and tender hands could do was done until he closed his eyes in the calm and peaceful embrace of death. His remains were laid in the Hamburg cemetery to await the call of the last day. The funeral was preached by Rev. Bennett of Farragut from II Corinthians, 5:1: "For we know that if our earthly house of his tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. -- JONAS PETTIT. N.B.: Note that this obituary says he settled on the farm on which he died on March 3, 1842. In the 1885 Iowa State Census for Washington township, he told the enumerator that he lived on north half of the southwest quarter of Section 26 Township 26 Range 42. This location is almost straight west of Riverton atop the loess bluffs, and just south of the Buckham cemetery, in a neighborhood known as Pleasant Grove. A contradiction can be found in the 1940 Iowa Press Association's WHO'S WHO for Fremont county when Fred Lincoln Johnson (husband of a granddaughter, Marie Elizabeth Scott) claims her grandfather Scott settled in McKissick's Grove, an area east of Hamburg. There is litle doubt in my mind but that Johnson mispoke.--W.F. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.