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John W. Scott. In mentioning the prominent farmers of Washington County, Ark., the list would be incomplete without the name of Mr. Scott, who is a native of the State in which he now resides, being born in Crawford County September 2, 1832. It is not known where his parents, Joseph and Mary (Larremore) Scott, were born, but they were very early residents of Crawford County, Ark., Cove Creek Valley was then a solid cane-brake, and the country was in a very wild and unsettled condition. The father was a farmer, and died in 1850 at the age of sixty-five years. His wife died in 1878, aged about sixty years. After Mr. Scott’s death she was married to W. C. Maxey, and moved to Franklin County, Ark. Mr. Scott was also twice married, but his first wife’s name is not known. To his last marriage were born one daughter (deceased), and three sons (living): James W., William N. and Joseph M. James M., being the eldest of the family, was the main support of the family after his father’s death. He managed the farm for his mother until 1854, and then located on his present farm, which consists of 300 acres. May 1, 1851, he married Emily, a daughter of Roland E. Hodge, who was a Tennesseean. Mrs. Scott was born in Tennessee January 10, 1833, and died in Washington County, Ark., March 16, 1871, deeply mourned by her family and friends. The following are her children: William H., Mary A. (wife of Jasper Cole), Charlie C., Martha A. (wife of W. V. Walker), John and Edwin W. In 1871 Mr. Scott married Mary F. Hardesty, who was born in Washington County, Ark., March 2, 1844, and is a daughter of Loving Hardesty. Mr. and Mrs. Scott, are church members, and he is a Republican and a member of the K. of H. In August, 1862, he was conscripted into the Confederate army, but about the 12th of October he left the Confederate army and later came home. In April, 1863, he went to Springfield, Mo., and joined the Federal service, and was a forage teamster for three years. In June, 1863, the family moved to Missouri, but in the spring of 1864 returned to Arkansas, and in April went to Fort Smith. In August of the same year Mr. Scott took his family to Fayetteville, but very shortly after took them to Pope County, Mo., where they remained until the close of the war. In 1866 he returned with his family to Arkansas, where he found his house burned to the ground and his property destroyed, but he immediately set to work, and with the assistance of his wife and sons soon replaced what had been destroyed, and is now one of the prosperous farmers of Washington County.