Talladega County AlArchives Obituaries.....Scott, Edward February 19, 1891
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Our Mountain Home
This venerable and worthy man has gone to his last home, and his home now is 
"with the just made perfect". No man living or dead has had his home in 
Talladega longer and without break in the record. When he died, he lacked only a 
few months of having been a faithful, honest, unpretending, consistent member of 
the Presbyterian church of Talladega for fifty years. The writer knows no one 
who was more universally respected. Mr. Scott was a modest, quiet man. No one 
held more firmly and unflinchingly to his own political or personal convictions 
than he or respected more the honest opinions of those who differed from him. He 
was born in New Haven, Conn., and on the 3rd of this month (February) was 
seventy-nine years of age. He came to Talladega in May 1834. He was a tailor by 
trade, and an honest man and capable workman. For Talladega and surrounding 
counties, he and his brother made our wedding suits for near half a century. In 
1847, he was married to Miss Margaret Shelley, a daughter of our first Circuit 
Court Clerk, Capt. Jacob D. Shelley. For forty-five years they lived together in 
peace and love. One who stood by them on the bridal floor and stood by his dead 
friend in his house in the last hour, and by his grave when interred, offers 
this imperfect tribute to his friend. He was buried in our cemetery on the 19th 
of February 1891. The attendance at the church and cemetery marked the affection 
of our community for their old, beloved fellow citizens. The remarks of Dr. 
Houston, his pastor, at the church, were strikingly beautiful, touching and 
appropriate. Old Friend.

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