Champaign Co, ILGenWeb, The USGenWeb Project - Biography

Abel S. Scott

SOURCE: "Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Illinois," Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1887

SURNAMES: DILL, SCOTT, SEYMOUR

ABEL S. SCOTT, who is comfortably located on section 8, Scott Township, has been a resident there since the spring of 1867. He is the owner of 500 acres of choice land, all improved and under a good state of cultivation. He has erected good buildings on his farm, has choice grades of stock, valuable farm machinery, and in all respects is fully equipped as a first-class progressive agriculturist.

Our subject was born in Hardy County, W. Va., Aug. 31, 1839, and is the son of Alexander and Mary (SEYMOUR) SCOTT, natives of the same State and county, where they were married and spent their entire lives. Their family consisted of three children, one son and two daughters. Abel S. remained at home until the beginning of the war, receiving a common-school education and attending the Military Institute in Lexington, for a period of four years. Here he was under the tutorship of Stonewall Jackson, and graduated in 1860. He then enlisted in the 13^th Virginia Infantry, C.S.A., in which he served until the close of the war. During the latter year of the conflict he was taken prisoner but held, however, only a short time. After his return to civil life he proceeded to Ross County, Ohio, on a visit, and from there went to Louisiana, where he engaged one year in raising cotton. In 1867 he came to this county, which has since been his home.

Mr. Scott was married in this county, April 30, 1872, to Miss Sallie J., daughter of Abel R. and Jane (DILL) SEYMOUR, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Scorr was born in Ross County, Ohio, Feb. 25, 1846, and by her union with our subject has become the mother of four children—Anna, Robert S., William R. and a babe unnamed. Mr. Scott, politically, affiliates with the Democratic party. He has held the offices of School Director and Road Commissioner, and socially is a worthy member of the Masonic fraternity.