Obituary, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana --Robert H. Scott
Submitted by:  Cindy Scott Freeman
Source: DeSoto Parish GenWeb 

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 ROBERT H. SCOTT                                                                                                                                                
Robert H. Scott died at his home in Kingston, La. on 
Saturday October 24, 1931.  He was 74 years of age, and 
closed his long career with a record that is excelled by 
few men, as he was on the the very best citizens of which 
DeSoto could boast.  He leaves a wife, who was Miss Corinne 
Beard, the only daughter of Colonel James Hamilton Beard, 
the outstanding hero of the battle of Mansfield, where he 
led the Crescent regiment, of which he was Colonel, when it 
charged across an open space of 700 yards, breaking through 
the Federal line, turning their flank, and assuring victory 
to the Confederate cause.  The decedent is survived by two 
sons, Rochelle, T. Scott of Shreveport, and Rembert B. Scott 
of Kingston: Three grandsons: Two brothers, Maxcy Gregg Scott 
of Colorado and Edward L. Scott of Baton Rouge:  Three sisters, 
Mrs. G. W. Sample and Mrs. W. P. Courtney of Grane Cane, and Mrs. 
O. B. Patterson of Baton Rouge.  The pall-bearers were J. H. Riggs, 
James E. Scott, Pendleton Courtney, Will Sample, L. T. Lancaster, 
and I. W. Pickens.  Mrs. Scott was a superb gentleman in every 
sense of the word, who discharged his every duty, both in public 
and private life, sincerely and conscientiously.  His death is both 
a public and private loss.  Reprinted from the Mansfield Enterprise, 
October 29, 1931                                                                    

submitted by Cindy Scott Freeman,   gr- niece