Washington Co., AR - Biographies - John W. Scott

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John W. Scott. In mentioning the prominent farmers of Washington 
County, Ark., the list would be incomplete without the name of Mr. 
Scott, who is a native of the State in which he now resides, being 
born in Crawford County September 2, 1832. It is not known where his 
parents. Joseph and Mary (Larremore) Scott, were born, but they were 
very early residents of Crawford County, Ark. Cove Creek Valley was 
then a solid cane-brake, and the country was in a very wild and 
unsettled condition. The father was a farmer, and died in 1850 at the 
age of sixty-five years. His wife died in 1878, aged about sixty 
years. After Mr. Scott's death she was married to W. C. Maxey, and 
moved to Franklin County, Ark. Mr. Scott was also twice married, but 
his first wife's name is not known. To his last marriage were born one 
daughter (deceased), and three sons (living): James W., William N. and 
Joseph M. James M., being the eldest of the family, was the main 
support of the family after his father's death. He managed the farm 
for his mother until 1854, and then located on his present farm, which 
consists of 300 acres. May 1, 1851, he married Emily, a daughter of 
Roland E. Hodge, who was a Tennesseean. Mrs. Scott was born in 
Tennessee January 10, 1833, and died in Washington County, Ark., March 
16, 1871, deeply mourned by her family and friends. The following are 
her children: William H., Mary A. (wife of Jasper Cole), Charlie C., 
Martha A. (wife of W. V. Walker), John and Edwin W. In 1871 Mr. Scott 
married Mary F. Hardesty, who was born in Washington County, Ark., 
March 2, 1844, and is a daughter of Loving Hardesty. Mr. and Mrs. 
Scott are church members, and he is a Republican and a member of the 
K. of H. In August, 1862, he was conscripted into the Confederate 
army, but about the 12th of October he left the Confederate army and 
later came home. In April, 1863, he went to Springfield, Mo., and 
joined the Federal service, and was a forage teamster for three years. 
In June, 1863, the family moved to Missouri, but in the spring of 1864 
returned to Arkansas, and in April went to Fort Smith. In August of 
the same year Mr. Scott took his family to Fayetteville, but very 
shortly after took them to Pope County, Mo., where they remained until 
the close of the war. In 1866 he returned with his family to Arkansas, 
where he found his house burned to the ground and his property 
destroyed, but he immediately set to work, and with the assistance of 
his wife and sons soon replaced what had been destroyed, and is now 
one of the prosperous farmers of Washington County.