Papa Georgie

George Washington Scott was born on January 5th, 1890 in either Parks or Boles Arkansas, close to the Fourche La Fave River. The Fourche La Fave, discovered and named by French traders in the 1680s, rises out of southern Scott county and flows east northeast approximately 140 miles through the Ouachita National Forest into the Arkansas River just northwest of Little Rock. George’s father was Peter W. Scott a farmer, probably cotton, and he was also called a merchant. Not much is known about his mother, Mary L. Billington, except that she was Peter’s second wife and she died sometime between George’s seventh and tenth year. George had 5 brothers and one sister. His brother’s were: John Boyd, Benjamin Franklin , Lewis Clifton called Ted, possibly a Sam and he had an older half-brother named James Thomas. He also had a little sister named Martha Elizabeth called Mattie. George was born in the dead of winter just after hog killin time, as the January 3rd 1890 edition of the Scott County Citizen reported: “A fatal malady broke out among the hogs all over the county last Monday, and hundreds of them bled to death, and have gone where all good hogs go–to the smoke house.” But the talk of the county, at the time, was the possibility Kansas City, Fort Scott and Sabine Pass railway being built through it. “Railroad talk has been so common for the last two years that it has become a “chestnut,” but all the disappointments that the people have suffered will not prevent the railroads from coming when they get ready. Although there are many false prophets, there are some true ones. “Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire,” read the hopeful Citizen.
Turn of the century Waldron Cotton Gin
Georgie and Dumpie married the 3rd of May 1914 when Georgie was 23 and Dump was 18.

Turn of the century Waldron Cotton Gin