- MRS. ELLEN SCOTT, widow, Sec. 11; P.O. Beloit; the daughter
of David and Agnes
- MERRILL; she was born in Beloit in 1843, and married Winfield
SCOTT in 1859, in Beloit; her husband was born in York State
in 1840, and came to Beloit in 1857; he owned 160 acres land
in Section 11; built a handsome residence and barns, and had
one of the richest farms in the county; he was killed, June 27,
1876, while working on his farm, through which the track of the
C. & N.-W. R.R. runs; he saw his youngest child in danger
of being killed by an approaching train, attempted to save her,
and in doing so, was struck by the train and killed, and his
child was saved. Mrs. SCOTT lives on the farm with her family.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 763.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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