Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography: Samuel Alexander SCOTT ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, , 1998. ************************************************************************** SAMUEL ALEXANDER SCOTT - was born in Greenbrier County, (then) Virginia, May 6, 1848, and was a son of James Keeble SCOTT, born in Monroe County, (then) Virginia, January 7, 1809, and Clarissa Ann (BLACK) SCOTT, born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1823. They lived in Greenbrier County until 1849, Fayette County until 1859, Kanawha County until 1862, and then went to Gallia County, Ohio, where the father died August 27, 1878; the mother is still a resident of that county. At Gallipolis, Gallia County, in 1872, Samuel A. SCOTT wedded Justina M. BLAZER, who was born in Gallia county in 1847. Joseph J. and Emeline (COWDEN) BLAZER were her parents, the former born in Gallia County about 1817, and the latter born in Trumbull County, Ohio. Her mother died in Gallia County about 1860, and her father is still living there. Mr. and Mrs. SCOTT are the parents of four children, born: Clarissa M., October 27, 1874; Joseph B. November 29, 1875; Nellie V., February 2, 1877; James K., August 20, 1880. In 1879, Samuel A. SCOTT returned to the county of his nativity, and he is residing in Lewisburg, where he is manager for the Singer Manufacturing Company. Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1974.