Carroll County GaArchives News.....Scott, Mr. & Mrs. John H. - oldest living married couple? .
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"The Cleburne News" .
Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, FEBRUARY 27, 1930

CLEBURNE COUPLE AMONG SOUTH'S OLDEST, CLAIMED

Cleburne county believes it has one of the oldest living married couples in 
Alabama or the South in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Scott, of the 
Friendship community, Route 1, Muscadine. Uncle John and Aunt Sarah were 
married in 1867. She was Sarah Isabella Brown of Muscadine. Uncle John 
enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 and served in the Thirtieth Georgia 
Infantry under Capt. Head of Buchanan, Ga., but later he was transferred to 
the Forty-Eighth Alabama Infantry under Capt. John W. Wigginton. He was 
seriously wounded in the second battle of Manasses and never returned to his 
company. Uncle John was born in Carroll county, Ga. and came with his 
parents to this county in 1849. Of five living children, Judge V. E. Scott 
of Friendship is the eldest. The couple have 30 grandchildren and 61 great 
grandchildren living. Mr. Scott is in his 91st year and Mrs. Scott in her 
89th.


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