Biographical Sketch of Scott Atkins, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Scott Atkins, presiding judge of the Webster county court, and a resi-
dent of Washington township, was born in Lee county, Va., near a place
called Rose Hill, August 12, 1833, being the son of Morris and Lucinda
(Peek) Atkins, natives of Summers county, Va., near New and Kanawha 
Rivers.  The father was born January 1, 1801; the mother was born 
October 3, 1803.  After his marriage Mr. Atkins moved, in 1829, to
Grainger county, Tenn., where they resided until the spring of 1846,
and then immigrated to Gasconade county, Mo.; here he died July 28, of 
the same year.  He was a member of the Baptist Church; was a gunsmith
by trade, and a manufacturer of edged tools.  He was a Democrat in pol-
itics.  The mother was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.  After
the death of her husband she moved back to Claiborne county, Tenn., 
near where they had formerly lived, and here died in July, 1857.  Their
son, Scott Atkins, at the age of twenty-two years, married, in 1885,
and after marriage engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he has con-
tinued ever since.  He also learned the carpenter's trade, at which he
has continued to work until within the last two years.  In 1856 he
moved to what is now Leavenworth county, Kas., with the intention of
making the place a permanent home.  The border troubles being at their
worst, it was no fitting place to live, and after staying about one 
year he moved to Polk county, Mo., where he resided until 1860, when he
moved to Webster county, Mo.  This has since been his home.  He is the
owner of a well located and well improved farm.  He served in the State
Militia at various times and places until 1864, when he enlisted in
Company B, Forty-eighth Missouri Infantry, Federal service, and was 
mustered out in 1865, at Chicago, Ill., at Camp Douglas.  He was at the
battle of Nashville, Tenn., on December 15 and 16, and was in many 
places guarding the railroads, and was in a railroad wreck near Spring
Hill, south of Nashville, in February, 1865, where an entire train was
precipitated down an embankment, except locomotive and tender.  After
the war he returned to Webster county, Mo.  In November, 1882, he was
elected presiding judge of Webster County, and re-elected in 1886, 
which position he now holds.  The Judge is a member of the G. A. R., is
a Republican in his political views, and is one of the prominent men of
the county.  Mrs. Atkins is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The subject of this sketch has three sisters and one brother, living in
what is now Union county, Tenn., formerly a part of Grainger and Clai-
borne counties.  The brother, Samuel Atkins, is a prominent physician
and merchant, who is now located on the bank of Clinch River.  The
sisters are Mesdames Walker, Capps and Haynes.  The eldest brother was
killed by being thrown from a horse while quite young.

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