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Submitted: 12/11/19 • Approved: 12/11/19 • Last Updated: 12/14/19 • R823888-G823886-S3
William
Feb 18, 1877
Jun 13, 1946
Son of David D. Scott and Rachael Osborne
Estella
Apr 8, 1882
Jul 22, 1952
Daughter of Daniel Conkle and Esther Miller
WILLIAM F. SCOTT DIES AT BRASHEAR
Had Heart Attack; Funeral To Be On Sunday.
Brashear, Mo., June 14. (Special)—William Fletcher Scott, 69, life long Knox County resident, died suddenly at his home here at 7 o'clock last night of a heart attack. He had been in failing health the past two years. Mr. and Mrs. Scott moved three weeks ago from their farm 6 miles northeast of Brashear in Knox County to Brashear.
Funeral services will be held at the Easley Funeral Home here Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and will be conducted by Rev. John C. Beachem, of St. Louis. Interment will be in Paultown Cemetery.
The son of David D. and Rachael (Osborne) Scott, he was born in Knox County on February 18, 1877. He was married on Jan. 23, 1900, to Miss Estella Conkle and to this marriage eight children were born.
Surviving him is his wife, the eight children, Mrs. George Miller, Mrs. Joseph Smith, both of Kirksville, Ralph, of Cimmaron, Kan., Mrs. Harold Pepper, of Columbia, Mo., Dale, of Filer, Ida., Forrest, of Hurdland, Willard, of Hannibal and Merlin, of Hurdland; sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild; three brothers, Harlan D. and Earl E., of Brashear, and Pearl E., of Kirksville; three sisters, Mrs. D.A. Fenn, of Salem, Ia., Mrs. Zelma Livix, of Mt. Pleasant, Ia., and Mrs. T.L. Mitten, of Kirksville. One brother and one sister have preceded him in death.
Mr. Scott has two grandsons in the armed forces, Bobby Joe Smith, who is in Pinsten, China and Billy Miller, in Ato, Japan.
The body will lie in state at the Easley Funeral Home here.
The pallbearers will be: Joe Stanck, George hays, William Dickmann, Glen fast, Noah Waddill, Pearl Reed.
Kirksville Daily Express
Kirksville, Missouri
June 14, 1946
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Contributed on 12/11/19
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