LEVI SCOTT (deceased) was a son of Finley and grandson of Abraham Scott, the latter of whom was born and reared in Maryland, and when a young man came to Pittsburgh, Penn., afterward settling in Washington county with his brother Alexander. He purchased a wild tract of land near Raccoon postoffice, Robinson township, this county, where his life was passed in agricultural pursuits. He was married to Jane, a sister of John Finley (the founder of Finleyville), and reared the following children: Rachel (Mrs. James Russell), Mary (wife of Thomas Fletcher), Ann (married to James Kerr), Jane (wife of David White), Elizabeth (Mrs. William Scott), Susan (married to John McBride), Abraham, Finley, Holland and Samuel. The father was a Democrat in politics, and in religion a member of the Presbyterian Church at Raccoon. Finley Scott was born in 1800, in Robinson township, and educated in this county. In 1822 he was married to Margaret, daughter of James Stephenson, of Smith township. The young people first settled on a farm in Robinson township, and remained there a few years, when they rented a neighboring farm, afterward purchasing a place in Smith township, where they lived twenty years, and finally moving to the home where the remainder of their lives was passed. Their children were Ann, Robert K., James, Samuel, Finley, John, Levi, Jane F. (Mrs. William Cowen) and Margaret (wife of Thomas Akleson). Mr. Scott was the architect of his own fortune and owned 450 acres of land at the time of his death, which occurred in 1879. He was a Democrat, and held various township offices. In religious connection he first united with the Associate Reformed Church, in which he was an elder, and afterward became a member of the U. P. Church at Burgettstown. Both he and his wife are buried in the U. P. cemetery. Levi Scott was born January 18, 1837, in Smith township, on the farm now occupied by his widow. He remained on the home place, and attended the common schools of the neighborhood until seventeen years of age, when he came with his parents to a farm a short distance north of his birthplace. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second P. V. C., in which he was a bugler, remaining until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. After the war the young soldier returned to his home in Washington county, and on June 5, 1867, was married to Lizzie J. Lee, who was born August 19, 1844, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Hindman) Lee. Mrs. Scott had two sisters, Mrs. Mary L. Pry, and Miss Nannie H. Lee, who died February 24, 1892, and was buried beside her father arid mother in the old cemetery at Cross Creek village. After his marriage Levi Scott settled on the old home farm. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church at Burgettstown, and was one of the building committee who superintended the erection of the handsome edifice which is their present house of worship. In politics he was an influential worker in the Republican party. On June 2, 1883, he was working at a portable sawmill near Rankin's Mill, in Mt. Pleasant township, and by some accident was thrown between the huge saw logs, being instantly killed. He was buried in the United Presbyterian cemetery, and left a widow and one son, Robert Lee, who was born June 19, 1868. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Scott and her son have continued to reside on the home place, upon which Mr. Scott had erected one of the most handsome farm residences in Smith township. The farm work is carried on by the son and his assistant, Mr. B. D. Malone, a faithful and energetic man, who has been in the employ of the Scott family for twenty years.

Text taken from page 1198 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed February 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published March 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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