Wake County NcArchives Obituaries.....Scott, Council Maddox 1952
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 05-23-1952, P. 9
COUNCIL MADDOX SCOTT

   Funeral services for Council Maddox Scott, 48, chief rate clerk of the 
Seaboard Air Line Railroad at Raleigh, N.C., who died unexpectedly from a heart 
attack on Saturday, May 3, were conducted the following Monday afternoon at 4 
o’clock at the Tabernacle Baptist Church, of which the deceased was a member. 
Officiating were the pastor, Dr. J.A. Ellis, and Dr. F. Orion Mixon, president 
of Chowan College and former Tabernacle pastor. Burial was in the New Hope 
Cemetery on the Louisburg highway.

   The pallbearers were John H. Bullard, Morris Capps, Jr., M. Yates Coates, 
A.M. Fort, Glenn Y. Lassiter, and Dewey Powell, the last named of Apex, N.C.  
Members of the Simms Baraca class attended in a body as pallbearers.

   Mr. Scott, who lived at 605 East Lane Street, Raleigh, was fatally stricken 
while at work in the garden of his farm in the New Hope section. He was a native 
of Franklin, the son of the late Rufus Butler and Mary Maddox Scott, having been 
born March 18, 1904. He received his schooling in Franklin.

   Thirty years ago Mr. Scott began his service with the Seaboard at Boykins. He 
was transferred to Raleigh in 1926 and had held various position in the Seaboard 
freight department there until he was made chief rate clerk. He was a member of 
the junior board of deacons of the Tabernacle Church and of the Simms Baraca 
class, serving as secretary of the latter of 12 years. He was a member also of 
Raleigh lodge No. 334 of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks.

   Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Elizabeth Buffaloe of Raleigh; a 
daughter, Joan Rebecca; a half-sister, Mrs. R.P. Bryant of Windsor, N.C.; and 
his stepmother, Mrs. Montgomery Scott of Williamsburg.


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