George Scott and Catherine Shoemaker

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Husband George Scott ^{1 2}

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           Born: 23 Dec 1834 - Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 15 Jul 1909 - Westmoreland Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Union Cemetery, near Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Jesse Scott (      -      ) 2
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       Marriage: 22 Feb 1866 3

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Wife Catherine Shoemaker ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1 Apr 1843 3
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         Buried:  - Union Cemetery, near Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Jacob Shoemaker (1803-1881) 1 4
         Mother: Anna Maria Wagner (1806-1873) 5

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Children

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1 M William E. Scott ³

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           Born: Abt 1867 3
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           Died: 20 Dec 1911
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         Spouse: Emma Kuhns (      -      ) 3

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2 M J. Walter Scott ³

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3 M John E. Scott ³

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4 F Agnes Scott ³

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         Spouse: John Rugh (      -      ) 3

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5 M George Frank Scott ³

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General Notes: Husband - George Scott

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His education was obtained at the local district schools and was meagre enough in itself, but he learned from the school called "Experience," and was in the best sense of the word a well-educated man. He was twenty-seven years of age when the Civil War, culminating the long disputes between North and South, broke out and he enlisted at once in the service of his country. He served in the regiment of Colonel Dick Coulter, and quite early in the war was taken sick. He was obliged to spend some time in a military hospital at Philadelphia, and when discharged from that institution was adjudged unfit to resume the duties of a soldier, and was mustered out of service. He returned home only to fall subject to the draft, which was at that time instituted by the Government at Washington, but although he was still unable to take up active duties, he paid a bounty of three hundred dollars to provide a substitute. Even these services, however, were insufficient to satisfy him, and as soon as he had recovered sufficiently from his illness he reenlisted in a battery of heavy artillery. This force, however, was detailed to guard Washington. On the night of President Lincoln's assassination, he was out on picket duty. After the war he returned to Pennsylvania and engaged in farming in his native region. In the year 1882 he came to a farm which was later owned by his son, George Frank Scott, and it was there that he spent the remainder of his life.
The spring and summer of 1879 preceding his return to this farm were spent in Kansas, where he owned an excellent farm in Brown County, close to the town of Hiawatha, the county seat. The Westmoreland County farm, where he spent the latter years of his life, was originally the property of Judge Robert Given from whom he purchased it. It was comprised of one hundred and eight acres and there, in the year 1885, he erected the handsome dwelling which was later used by his son. Five years later, in 1890, he put up a large and commodious barn, and erected also the other outbuildings which were necessary to carry on the agricultural operations which he engaged in. Here his death occurred very suddenly, when he was seized with heart failure and dropped suddenly in the field.
Mr. Scott was a staunch Republican, and in his religious belief he was a Lutheran, he and his wife attending the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Greensburg. They both lie buried in Union Cemetery, near Greensburg.
Although Mr. Scott never joined the Grand Army of the Republic, he did all in his power to keep fresh the associations formed by him during the stirring period of the Civil War. He knew and kept up his acquaintance with his old comrades, attending the reunions and so forth.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 588.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 882.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 883.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 177, 883.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 177.