RICHARD T. SCOTT

RICHARD T. SCOTT, a prominent rancher of Alabama Township, was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky, September 5, 1837. He came to California with a jolly party of seventy-five, across the plains with ox teams, and had some trouble with the Indians. At Salt Lake City the party divided, one section of which were all afterward killed by Indians, including some of Mr. Scott's relatives. At times they were certain that they would never reach California, so discouraged did they become on account of misfortunes; they were seven months on the route. Arriving in long-looked-for land of gold, Mr. Scott immediately began work by the month for Mr. McGee; indeed, he and his wife conducted the entire place for Mr. McGee for eighteen months. For the next fourteen months Mr. Scott followed teaming in Stockton, at $75 a month; then he purchased a team and began work for himself, following the business of hauling over the Sierra Nevada Mountains for ten years. He sold his outfit in 1867, and the next year bought the ranch in San Joaquin County, five miles from Stockton, and followed farming there until 1880, when he brought his present ranch of 480 acres, which is devoted principally to wheat and barley. It is seven miles from Galt, on the road to Ione. Mr. Scott chose for his wife Susan Ferguson, who was born in Bradley, Alabama January 25, 1838. Eleven of their thirteen children are living. They have had thirteen children, as follows: Malinda S., Sarah A. (died in 1860), Henry D., Richard T. (died in 1865), Seth A., William P., Joe H., Samuel F., Charles L., George W., Martha E., Sarah A. and John W.

An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. By Hon. Win. J. Davis. Lewis Publishing Company 1890. Page 282-283.

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton.