BIOGRAPHY: W. W. SCOTT, Madison County, GA ***************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.rootsweb/ Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net and Jeanne Arguelles - ejarguelles@msn.com 18 April 2002 ***************************************************************** "Memoirs of Georgia: Containing Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People" Vol. 1 & 2, Atlanta, Georgia: The Southern Historical Association, 1895 W. W. SCOTT. Among the leading farmers of Madison county is W. W. Scott, of Danielsville. He was born in MadIson county in 1820, and is the son of John and Jane (Milligan) Scott. John Scott was born in North Carolina, of which state his parents were natives, and came to Georgia at an early day, settling in Madison county, where he farmed and engaged in trading with great pecuniary success. He left his plow to serve in the second war with Great Britain, and a few years after his return was elected to the office of sheriff of Madison county. He was re-elected a number of terms and in that day was the leading man of the county. He married a daughter of Andrew and Lillie (Cloghorn) Milligan. Mr. Milligan was a native of Virginia and served throughout the revolutionary war as a private, and won fame for his fearless courage in several battles. The early life of W. W. Scott was that of the usual farmer boy, and when fifteen years of age he followed in the footsteps of his ancestors and shouldered a musket and went out and fought the Cherokee Indians in the war of 1831. In 1841 he was married to Mary J. Daniel, a daughter of James Daniel, a well-to-do farmer of Madison county. Mrs. Scott was born in 1825 and her demise occurred in 1856. She was a noble Christian woman, belonging to the Presbyterian church, and a loving wife and mother. By this marriage the following living children were born: Thomas J., Elizabeth F., John C., James D. and Mary. In 1860 Mr. Scott was married to Sarah Davenport, who was born in Wilkes county and died in 1886 at an advanced age. Mr. Scott's third marriage was to Sarah, daughter of John and Nancy (Stanton) Dixon. She was born in Elbert county in 1842. Mr. Dixon was a native of and died in Elbert county and was a prosperous farmer. Mrs. Scott is a member of the M. E. church, while her husband is of the Presbyterian faith and a lifelong member of the masonic order. Mr. Scott has always taken an interest in politics, though never aspiring to office, and in 1877 was a representative of his county in the constitutional convention. Mr. Scott, like so many other farmers of the south after the war, found himself ruined, but with indomitable energy went to work and soon recovered his losses and added greatly to them, having a fine farm of 4,000 acres at the present time. Mr. Scott served in the Confederate army in the late war, first as private, then as captain, elected by the men, and was afterward promoted to the rank of major of his regiment.