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Alfred Oran SCOTT

Alfred Oran SCOTT

Male 1880 - 1944  (63 years)

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  • Name Alfred Oran SCOTT 
    Born 14 Jul 1880  West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1915  Doe Run (West Union), Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • Home destroyed by fire on November 14, 1915.
    Occupation 1920  [5] 
    blacksmith in glass plant 
    Census 1920, 1940  West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation plumber  [1] 
    Died 2 Jun 1944  West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6] 
    Buried Freeman-Coleman Cemetery, Rt 18 N (Crystal Lake), West Union, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 7] 
    Person ID I3818  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 13 Jul 2017 

    Father Henry SCOTT,   b. 7 May 1847, Monongalia Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Dec 1931, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Mary Catherine IRELAND,   b. 1841, Tyler Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1884  (Age 43 years) 
    Family ID F14216  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ethel Gay DOTSON,   b. 10 Mar 1886,   d. 12 Oct 1964, Weirton, Hancock Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 21 Feb 1905  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Children 
     1. Elsie Carmen SCOTT,   b. 25 Jan 1905, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1982  (Age 77 years)
     2. Everett Linden SCOTT,   b. 22 Apr 1907, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jul 1973, Akron, Summit Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     3. Ernest C. SCOTT,   b. 7 Aug 1910, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Dec 1975, Weirton, Hancock Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     4. Cyril Alfred SCOTT,   b. 25 Feb 1914, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Sep 1991, Weirton, Hancock Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
    Family ID F1361  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 14 Jul 1880 - West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1915 - Doe Run (West Union), Doddridge Co, WV Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1920, 1940 - West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 2 Jun 1944 - West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Freeman-Coleman Cemetery, Rt 18 N (Crystal Lake), West Union, WV Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Photos
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    Documents
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    3818_SCOTT_AlfredOran_HomeDestroyedByFire_DCRepublican_18Nov1915.jpg    		3818_SCOTT_AlfredOran_HomeDestroyedByFire_DCRepublican_18Nov1915.jpg
    3818_SCOTT_AlfredOran_HomeDestroyedByFire_WUHerald_18Nov1915.jpg    		3818_SCOTT_AlfredOran_HomeDestroyedByFire_WUHerald_18Nov1915.jpg

  • Sources 
    1. [S1853] Death Certificate, WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx).

    2. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    3. [S1774] Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, (Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993)).

    4. [S2601] Doddridge County Republican, 11/18/1915.

    5. [S2027] 1920 Census, Doddridge County, WV (West Union District).

    6. [S1853] Death Certificate, WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx).
      Death record reports immediate cause of death as "Fall from Rail Road Bridge" which was characterized as an accident. An article in the Mar 28 2006 issue of the West Union Herald quotes the 1944 newspaper account of the accident as follows: "Alfred Oren [sic] Scott, 63, of West Union, until recently town pumper here, was found dead with a badly crushed skull and a fractured leg shortly after 10:30 p.m. Friday night, 2 June 1944, under the Middle Island railroad bridge. Apparently he had jumped from the railroad trestle twenty-four feet above to avoid a passing train, or he had been knocked from the bridge, or had slipped or stumbled and while trying to regain his footing fell off the bridge. There was a violent rain and electric storm at the time. Scott was lying on the pavement of the highway about twenty feet from the end of the trestle. A westbound train passed through West Union shortly before Scott's body was found."

    7. [S2550] Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. I, Donald Edward Ramage (1934-2016), (4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999)).