STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1899, page 1, column 7

MELVIN EMERSON SCOTT, 19 Jul 1841 - 07 Apr 1899

   Mr. Scott was born in Coventry, Chenango county, N. Y., July 19, 
1841, and died at his home in Millgrove township, Steuben county, 
Indiana, April 7, 1899, aged 57 years, 8 months and 18 days.  His 
father died while he was yet in his teens, and after a few years of 
successful business in the east, in company with his brother Samuel 
he came to Indiana.  The two brothers purchased the William Dixon 
farm, south of Orland.  In time the property was divided, and in a 
business transaction Mr. Scott obtained the farm he owned at the 
time of his death.  His mother lived with him a number of years and 
died at his home.  Mr. Scott was a loving and dutiful son, a kind 
and affectionate brother, an honest and conscientious man in all his 
dealings, and in spite of his long years of suffering and 
affliction, he maintained a kind and pleasant attitude toward those 
about him.  He leaves this side of the mystic river three sisters 
and one brother, who with many friends will greatly miss him.  He 
was reconciled to the thought of death, and quietly passed through 
its open gateway into the beautiful beyond.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 

Melvin Emerson Scott, 19 Jul 1841 - 07 Apr 1899, was the son of 
Victor and Roxana L. Scott, 04 Feb 1807 - 24 Jan 1883.  Melvin never 
married. 

Brother: Samuel V. Scott, died 17 Mar 1912, aged 75 years, 7 months 
and 17 days.  He married 1st, Mary A. (______) Scott who died 30 Oct 
1885, aged 43 years and 6 months.  2nd, Jennie (Cosper) Wilder Scott, 
widow of Charles Wilder.

Jennie is not listed in the cemetery book.  All of the others are 
buried at Jackson Prairie Cemetery, Steuben County, indiana.

"Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990" by Audree Siebel 
Lewis, Vol. II, page 1606.

Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
e-mail:  hilbeck123@att.net