Title
WILLIAM SCOTT
Creator
Bill Scott
Coverage
TOWNSHIP 139N RANGE 96W
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WILLIAM SCOTT
William Scott was a mathematics teacher in a college in Scotland and came as a settler to America. He settled in Canada, far from any school and had lost his wife so raised my dad alone He taught my dad to read from the Bible — it being the only textbook my dad had. William's wife had named their son Campbell after her maiden name. After she died he came to Canada when dad was five years old. Later they moved to the U.S. and he had a homestead on Green River about four miles east of Highway 22.
William Scott was hurt quite badly when he was driving a buggy and was overtaken by a thunderstorm He had a tall buggy whip in a holder beside him and it stuck into the air about five feet. Lightning traveled down the whip and injured him. He died on his homestead and was buried by some friends. My dad arrived a couple days later and fearing that his father's grave would someday be plowed up dug the grave up and moved it up on Simons Butte (the large butte just north of Green River, north of Davis Buttes). This was a place near his homestead but up where it would not be molested.
There are at least three graves on Simons Butte with only a stone as a marker. The people that knew where they were located and who they were, have all passed on, so no one knows exactly where the graves are located.
By Bill Scott
William Scott was a mathematics teacher in a college in Scotland and came as a settler to America. He settled in Canada, far from any school and had lost his wife so raised my dad alone He taught my dad to read from the Bible — it being the only textbook my dad had. William's wife had named their son Campbell after her maiden name. After she died he came to Canada when dad was five years old. Later they moved to the U.S. and he had a homestead on Green River about four miles east of Highway 22.
William Scott was hurt quite badly when he was driving a buggy and was overtaken by a thunderstorm He had a tall buggy whip in a holder beside him and it stuck into the air about five feet. Lightning traveled down the whip and injured him. He died on his homestead and was buried by some friends. My dad arrived a couple days later and fearing that his father's grave would someday be plowed up dug the grave up and moved it up on Simons Butte (the large butte just north of Green River, north of Davis Buttes). This was a place near his homestead but up where it would not be molested.
There are at least three graves on Simons Butte with only a stone as a marker. The people that knew where they were located and who they were, have all passed on, so no one knows exactly where the graves are located.
By Bill Scott