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Genealogy of Sharon & Scotty

Scott/Beatty/Shaffer/Olinger

Scott/Beatty/Shaffer/Olinger

Robert Clare Scott Obit

Notice the error in the spelling of the middle name from Clare to Clair and the death date is in error – it should be Sept 12.

Obituary 14 September 1932

ROBERT CLAIR SCOTT
A sufferer from endocarditis, Robert Clair Scott, aged 42, son of John P. and Annie Beatty Scott, died at his home in Plumcreek township, Armstrong county, Shelocta, R.D.2, at 1:40 p.m., Monday, Sept 15. He was a truck driver and well and favorably known in his community. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Viola Lawton Scott; one son, Blair Scott; his parents; three brothers; Howard L. Scott, West Lebanon, Frank T. Scott, Sagamore and Paul Scott, Shelocta, R. D. and two sisters, Mrs. Gladys M. Rose of Mineral Ridge, O., and Mrs. Willard Wingard of Yatesboro. Funeral services will be conducted in the Elderton United Presbyterian Church at 2:00 p.m., Thursday and burial will be in Elderton cemetery.1

Robert Scott Tombstone Elderton Cemetery


1. Obituary, “Robert C. Scott,” The Indiana Evening Gazette, 14 Sep 1932; digital images.

Scott/Beatty/Shaffer/Olinger

Bob Scott Second Half

By 1920 Bob and Viola were running a small General Store in Elderton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He was enumerated there on 3 January 1920, listed as a merchant, along with his wife Viola C., son Royden B. and a boarder Lawrence S. Blystone who is only 15 years old.1 Blair told me that his father had hired a young man to work at the store and do the heavy lifting for him and he knew of no relationship between the Scott and Blystone families. In 1920 it would not have been unusual to find a 15 year old working full-time and boarding out.

There was a newspaper article from 1924 when Bob and Viola moved their store the short distance from Elderton to Shelocta.2

Robert Scott and family, of Elderton, have moved to Shelocta to the Samuel Kimmel property. The store stock of goods will also be moved to Shelocta into the Kimmel store property.

In 1930 Bob and Viola had moved to Vandergrift in Westmoreland County.3 The general store was closed and Bob is driving truck between the farms and the markets. Whether the store closed because of the Depression or Bob’s poor health wasn’t known by his son Blair. Blair usually listed his father’s occupation as truck driver on his papers.

Bob was well known within the family for his sense of humor, always ready with a joke or a pun.

Bob died 12 September 1932 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and is buried in the Elderton Cemetery.4


1. 1920 U.S. census, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania population schedule, Plumcreek Twp, enumeration district (ED) 15, p. 9A, dwelling 29; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.Ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T625, roll 1508.
2. “Local Events,” The Indiana Weekly Messenger, 10 Jan 1924; digital images.
3. 1930 U.S. census, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania population schedule, Vandergrift, enumeration district (ED) 177, p. 16A; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.Ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626, roll 2160.
4. Pennsylvania Department of Health, death certificate 81003 (12 Sep 1932), Robert Scott; Division of Vital Records, New Castle, Pennsylvania.