The Scott Family

JOSEPH SCOTT was born, in Scotland. He married Mary Milton. They moved to Ireland and then to Station 96, near Charleston, South Carolina. This was in the 1700s. One of the children of Joseph and Mary Scott, was Robert Scott, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1762.
ROBERT SCOTT moved with his parents to South Carolina. He ran away from home at the age of 14, and enlisted in the Continental Army as a drummer boy. This was in 1776. He was one of the troops that gave chase to the British Commander, Col. Banastre Tarleton in the Battle of Cowpens (S. C.), January 17, 1781. He was later captured by the British and put in prison but escaped and went to Florida, where he fought in the Indian Wars. He died at his home in Mississippi, and is buried at Breton Prebyterian Church, in Southern Mississippi.
Robert Scott married a Miss Bell of Tennessee. They had two sons, Winfrey Scott and Nelson Jackson Scott, born in 1816.
Both Winfrey and Nelson moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, and later became officers of the Confederate Army. Winfrey enlisted on De­cember 11, 1861, at Camp Moore, Louisiana, as Captain of Co. D, 19th Louisiana Infantry. He was promoted to Major. He died of wounds re­ceived at the Battle of New Hope Church (Georgia) on May 27, 1864.
NELSON JACKSON SCOTT also enlisted in the Confederate Army soon after the outbreak of the war. He served as 1st Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry, known as the "Partisan Rangers." After the war, Nelson returned to Homer, Louisiana, and began the practice of law. He was elected District Judge of Claiborne Parish, and served in that office for several terms.
Nelson J. Scott first married a Miss Cleveland. They had three daughters:

1. Belle Scott, who married Val Winston of Dallas, Texas.
2. Lidie Scott, who married Rev. Adam Hawthorne Davidson.
3. Jessie Scott, who married James Drew, of New Orleans.

After the death of his first wife, Nelson married Georgia Tooke, daugh­ter of Thomas Blackshear Tooke and Ellen Williams Tooke. They were married in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, in 1871. Nelson J. Scott died in 1896; his wife, Georgia Tooke, died on October 1, 1928.
Nelson and Georgia Scott had one child, Alice Mai Scott, who was born at Homer, Louisiana, in 1872. She married John Dallas Wilkinson.
The Scott family thus merged with the Wilkinson family.