CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: J. D. SCOTT - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

J. D. SCOTT.

John D. Scott, born in Claiborn Parish, La., May 25, 1846, and removed 
with his father's family and settled near Tyler, Texas, in 1850.  
Young Scott in 1862 joined company E, 11th Texas infantry, his being 
a part of the 3rd brigade of Walker's division in the Trans-
Mississippi Army.  He served with his command until the end of the 
war in 1865. April 16, 1868 he married Miss Mary C. Denson and has 
re­sided in Tyler since that date.  Mrs. Scott died Feb. 12, 1895.  
Comrade Scott has always been true to the South, and a leading 
business man.