Prior Scott

Scott, Prior, Col., farmer, Post Office Mechanicsville. His farm contains 348 acres. Mr. Scott was born on Silas Creek; near the corner of Scott, Bourbon and Harrison Counties, Kentucky, November 4, 1798. While the subject of this sketch was quite a youth, his parents removed to Adams County, Ohio, where they remained about three years and then removed to Scioto County, where Prior remained about twenty years, when he emigrated to Montgomery County, Indiana, near Crawfordsville, while that county was comparatively new and unsettled. After remaining there about one year, Mr. Scott returned to Ohio, and married Miss Ruth, daughter of Henry Caraway, Esq., on the 4th of August, 1824; remained in Ohio some two years after marriage.

Mr. Scott returned to Montgomery County, Indiana, with his wife, where he remained until the Spring of 1837, when he emigrated to Pioneer Grove, his present place of residence. At that time the country was new and unsettled, and was under the jurisdiction of Wisconsin Territory. In 1840, he went to Linn County and erected a saw-mill on Big Creek, which he operated for a period of four years, and then returned to Pioneer Township. Mr. Scott has the honor of being the first Colonel of Militia appointed by Governor Dodge, the first Governor of the Territory. His first wife died August 27, 1874, after having lived together just three days more than half a century. He was remarried April 1, 1875, to Mrs. Mary Rubel, who was a native of Illinois. Mr. Scott had four sons and four daughters by his first wife--Margaret, Mary, Joseph, Henry, Martha, Martin, Andrew J., and Ruth A., and one daughter--Gracie, by his second marriage. 

(From the History of Cedar County 1878, biography section, Pioneer Township

Died August 16, 1888, almost 90 years old, in Mechanicsville, Iowa. (D.N.)

Recorded from the internet, October 25, 2003 or earlier. David Nolette