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Title: George Washington Scott (1910 - 1995), "History of the Scott Family", unpublished journal c. 1975, in possession of the author, Auburn, California
Text: I will begin with Grandfather Smith Frye Scott who was born April 2, 1846, and died April 9, 1914. He married Sarah F. Rogers who was born April 30, 1844 and died February 19, 1922.
Children born to this marriage were Alpha Scott, born Sept 5, 1867 and died January 10, 1946. John Elmer Scott born June 10, 1870 and died September 26,1957, Samuel Clyde Scott, my father, born June 3, 1877 and died February 18, 1955, Tryphena M. (Scott) Yorty, born October 18, 1882 and died August 13, 1963.
Grandfather Scott was a farmer all his life. He was also a County Commissioner in Washington County for at least two terms and also devoted some time as an insurance agent in the county.
Grandfather Joseph Hawkins born in 1846 and died in 1931. He married Elizabeth F. Deems who was born in 1841 and died in 1929.
Children born to this marriage were Maude Levi (Hawkins) Scott, my mother born May 7, 1874 and died May 12, 1910, Ada (Hawkins) Beall born Dec. 15, 1881 and died April 13, 1965
Grandfather Hawkins was a farmer all his life.
My father and mother were married November 23, 1899 and to this union was[sic] born eight children.
Frances Elizabeth Scott, born October 7, 1900 who now lives in Centerville and was never married.
Inez Fay (Scott) Mansfield born Cec. 9, 1901 who was married to Cecil Mansfield at Washington Penna. May 3, 1927. They have lived in Centerville since marriage and have a son Raymond and daughter Shirley.
Orville Clyde Scott, born May 13, 1903 died January 18, 1972. He married Mary Beattie in Cumberland, Maryland on August 31, 1941. He worked as an automobile mechanic in the Centerville area and then moved to New York and was later transferred to Miami Florida where he died. They have three daughters.
Rheyma Melvada (Scott) Hopkins, born September 20, 1904 who was married to J. Gaylord Hopkins at Uniontown, Penna., July 17, 1926. They lived in Centerville for a few years and then moved to Belle Glade, Florida where they now live. They have a daughter Ella Mae.
Hawkins Smith Scott, born February 14, 1906, married Flora Brooks at Beallsville, Penna., January 16, 1929. He worked as a farmer for most of his life in the Centerville area. He is now employed aby the Penna. Highway Dept. and lives in Stockdale, Penna. They have three daughters and two sons.
Leslie Frye Scott, born June 19, 1907 married Ruth Ann Cope at Wheeling, West Virginia may 6, 1928. He worked as a farmer and at a dairy farm while living in the Centerville area. They now live in Sherman, Texas where he works at a printing office part time. They have two sons and a daughter.
Florence Ada (Scott) Wright, born January 13, 1909, married Samuel A. Wright at Wheeling, West Virginia, July 5, 1928. They lived in the Monongahela, Penna area where Sam worked for a natural gas company. The later moved to Southern California and he worked as a welder and retired in 1970. They now live in Isleton, California. They have a son Clyde and a daughter Maryln.
George Washington Scott,born March 25, 1910, married Helen Brashear at Centerville Church, November 18, 1939. Granduated from Centerville High School in 1929. Worked for a short time for Gay Hopkins at service station in Centerville. Attended West Virginia University for two years. This was during an economic depression so I dropped out of college and took a combined Business course at Penn Commercial College at Washington, Pa.
I worked for a year or two for my brother Orville in his garage at Centerville. I also worked for Centerville Boro as a truck driver for about a year.
In April, 1937 I started working in the office of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Vesta-Shannopin Coal Division at California, Pa. During the time that I was employed by J&L I was at California, Richeyville, Vestaburg, and when I retired I was back at the California Office. I first worked as a Payroll Clerk when all payroll work was done manually. When the company changed to I.B.M. machines I was put in this department to do the payroll and other operations mechanically. The last two or three years that I worked for J&L I was Supervisor of Property Accounting. My duties in this job was[sic] to keep a record of all the property and equipment connected with the Coal Division. I also had to keep records of all construction projects and purchases of equipment. I retired from J&L April 2, 1970.
My father and mother lived on a farm on the road between Beallsville and Bentleyville. All of my brothers and sisters were born there but in the fall of 1909 the family moved to the farm on the Barney Run road below Centerville and I was born on this farm March 25, 1910.
On May 12, 1910, my mother died leaving my father with eight children to raise. He never remarried and I guess my oldest sister Frances dropped out of sahool and more or less acted as a mother to the children. My cousin George Yorty was born just four days after my birth and I guess his mother, (my autn) took me to live with them in Centerville. I guess I stayed with them for two or three years, I do not remember any of this time I lived there.
My first four years of school I attended the Center School which was about a quarter of a mile from our home on Barneys Run road. This school was closed so I then went to the Centerville grade school and High school where I graduated in 1929.
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