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From: "Nancy Thompson" <>
Subject: [MOMILLER] M.W. (Gum) Scott - obituary
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 13:46:34 -0600

Friday, January 19, 1912

Cole County in general was shocked Saturday afternoon when it
was learned that M.W. (Gum) Scott, living in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood,
had been accidentally killed while chopping in the woods near his home.

No one was present at the time of the accident and it is hardly
known just how Mr. Scott met his death, though it is generally supposed that
he had cut a tree and in felling it that it lodged in a smaller tree and in
trying to dislodge it, it fell, striking him on the top of the head,
crushing his skull and causing instant death. When Mr. Scott failed to come
home for dinner his wife and daughter, Miss Claudia, became alarmed and went
in search for him, finding him pinned beneath a limb of the tree. Aid was
summoned but it was discovered that death had been instantaneous.

Deceased was sixty-four years old and a native of Cole County
and probably no man in Cole County is better known than was Gum Scott. He
was married to Miss Margaret Enloe who, with five children, survives. The
children are Byron, near Russellville, Robert of Elston, Leonard of
Millbrook, Mrs. Emmett Smith of Brumley and Miss Claudia at home

Funeral services were conducted Monday morning at eleven o'clock
and the remains laid to rest in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

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