Per the Pittis Genealogy, compiled and edited by MB Pittis (ca.1945), Jane Pittis (5/18/1819 Isle of Wight,G.B.- 2/23/1901 Deersville, Harrison Co.,OH) m. 8/20/1839 to John Walter Scott (10/10/1811 Yorkshire,England- 10/8/1886 Deersville,Harrison Co.,OH); both buried in the Scott vault in Cadiz cem. MB Pittis quotes a "sketch in The Harrison County History, and from the local newspapers at the time of his death" as her source to say JW was the son of James Scott of Sowerby Bridge,Yorkshire; James' 1st wife was a Miss Howarth, who died in England; no children. James' 2nd wife was Harriet Arnold, and they had John, William and Eliza. They emigrated in 1816 to York (now Toronto), Canada; then went to NY City. In 1819 they walked from NY City to Cadiz, OH. James was the first watch and clock maker (a business which had been carried on in the Scott family for 106 years) in Harrison Co. After James' death JW continued the family business, was postmaster in 1842, practiced dentistry and was known as Dr. Scott. JW was also an inventor, he made his own dental instruments, and designed and made a musical instrument called a melo-phean, a forerunner of the piano; Smithsonian catalogue # 248,305. He had been a member of the Disciples Of Christ, but later joined the Methodist Church. JW and Jane had 9 children, Mary d.age 12, James & Albert d. infancy; Julia V. (b.1845); Cyrus McNeely (b.1848); Robert Pittis (b.1851); Lanphear H. Scott,LL.B.(b.1856); Charles Sumner (b.1857); Thomas Arnold (b.1862).