Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Scott, James M. 1865 - 1900
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JAMES M. SCOTT.

    The late James M. Scott, who died at his home in Marysville in 1900 and who
for years was one of the best-known citizens of Marshall county, was a native of
the state of Pennsylvania, but had been a resident of Kansas since the days of
his young manhood, having come here from Missouri, to which state he had moved
when about fourteen years of age. He was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania,
July 29, 1865, son of George and Sarah Scott, natives of that same state.

    About the year 1886 James M. Scott came from Missouri to this county. He
presently became engaged on the Tootle ranch in the adjoining county of
Washington, but not long afterward located at Marysville, where he became
engaged in the livery business. Some time later he disposed of that business and
returned to the Tootle ranch and was engaged as foreman of the same for seven
years, at the end of which time, in 1899, he returned to Marysville, where he
spent his last days, his death occurring in January, 1900.

    On November 6, 1890, James M. Scott was united in marriage to Gertrude
Crane, who was born in Davis county, Iowa, September 5, 1869, daughter of Robert
and Sarah Ann (Deeds) Crane, and who was but six weeks of age when her parents
moved to Marshall county and established their home in Center township, early
becoming recognized as among the most substantial and influential pioneer
residents of that part of the county. It was on that pioneer farm in Center
township that Mrs. Scott was reared. She received her elementary schooling in
the district school in the neighborhood of her home there and supplemented the
same by a course in the high school at Marysville, from which she was graduated,
after which she began teaching in the district schools of Marshall county and
had taught three terms of school at the time of her marriage to Mr. Scott. To
that union three children were born, namely: Earl F., who is now living at
Dawson, New Mexico, where he is conducting a barber shop; Gladys, who married C.
E. Meinzer and is now living at Atlantic, this state, and Melvin J., who is a
machinist in the Travelute garage at Marysville. Mrs. Scott is an earnest member
of the Methodist Episcopal church and takes a warm interest in the various
beneficences of the same. For years she has taken an active part in the local
work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and for some years has served as
secretary of the Marysville branch, giving her most intelligent and earnest
attention to the promotion of the temperance movement in this part of the state.
Mrs. Scott is the owner of a quarter of a section of land in Garfield county,
Oklahoma. She is now making her home with her mother at Marysville.

    Robert Crane, father of Mrs. Scott, was born on a farm in Preble county,
Ohio, February 13, 1830, son of George and Elizabeth (Beatty) Crane, natives of
Pennsylvania and of New York, respectively, who moved from Ohio to Miami county,
Indiana, where Robert Crane grew to manhood and in 1852 was married to Sarah Ann
Deeds, who was born at Coshocton, Ohio, May 5, 1834, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Slothour) Deeds, natives of the state of Pennsylvania. In 1860 he
moved from Indiana to Iroquois county, Illinois, where he was engaged in farming
until 1869, when he set out with his family for Kansas, driving through in a
"prairie schooner" and settling in Center township, this county, where he
established his home. Mr. Crane homesteaded a tract of eighty acres in Center
township and built a frame house on the same, gradually making other
improvements to his place and extending his land holdings until he became the
owner of a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres. In 1883 he retired from the
active labors of the farm and moved to Marysville, but in 1890 moved back to the
farm and there remained until 1897, when he returned to Maryvsille and there
spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on December 27, 1909. His
widow is still living there, her daughter, Mrs. Scott, making her home with her,
and the two are very pleasantly and very comfortably situated. Mrs. Crjane
retains possession of the old home farm of two hundred and forty acres in Center
township and is quite well circumstanced. During his long residence in Center
township, Robert Crane took an active part in public affairs there and rendered
valuable public service as a member of the school board in his home district.

    To Robert and Sarah Ann (Deeds) Crane ten children were born, of whom Mrs:
Scott was the eighth in order of birth, the others being as follow: Elizabeth,
who married J. H. Wakefield and is. now living at Eagle City, Oklahoma; Matilda,
the second in order of birth; William R., who is a well-known farmer of
Marysville township, this county; Alpharetta, now living at Lawton, Oklahoma,
the widow of T. H. Edmundson; Mrs. Inez Rice, deceased; Tryphena, who married L.
N. Neal and is now living in Graham county, this state; Harvey, who died while
the family was en route from Illinois to this state; Samuel, who is living at
Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, and Albert N., deceased.

    An interesting feature, worthy of note, in connection with the Scott family
history, is the circumstance that William R. Crane, brother of Mrs. J. M. Scott,
is married to a woman who has the distinction of being the first white child
born in Marshall county. Mrs. W. R. Crane is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Martin, who, in 1857, came to Kansas and stopped on the Vermillion, south of
town. Joseph Martin served in the Civil War as a member of Company D, Eighth
Kansas Volunteer Infantry. During his period of service he was taken ill and
subsequently died of lung fever. In 1868 his widow married William Lewis and
they settled on a homestead farm at Home City, two miles from Marysville. Mr.
Lewis died on July 10, 1903, and his widow (Mrs. Crane's mother) survived until
June 20, 1907, when she died at the age of sixty-nine years, eight months and
ten days.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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