Thomas Scott, Belle Vernon

Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County by Gresham and Wiley,
1889, p380
 Thomas Scott was born in 1833 in County Longford, Ireland, and his parents
were James and Catherine Scott. When he was eight years of age, his parents
came to Pennsylvania where his father died soon after their arrival, and the
boy was thus thrown upon his own resources. He worked three years for Joseph
S Walton, a Quaker of Chester county, receiving as compensation his board,
clothing and three months schooling each winter. His next employment was
three and one half years� service in the Doe Run Cotton Mills, thence he
went to Lancaster county and labored for a time in a saw mill.
 In 1854 he came with his widowed mother to Belle Vernon where he has since
resided.
 In the late war he enrolled himself as volunteer under Lincoln�s first call
for troops. His enlistment dated from October 16, 1862, in an independent
company, but later joined the Ringgold Battalion then consolidated with the
Twenty Second Pennsylvania Volunteers.
 He was in thirty six engagements, mustered in as a corporal, and came out
as a commissary sergeant, October 31, 1865. He has a commission of promotion
signed by J G Isenberg and A J Greenfield.
 He was married in 1858 to Sarah A Gamble, daughter of James Gamble, an old
and respectable citizen. They had three children: Alice S Scott, married to
Samuel McKean and lives in Belle Vernon; John T Scott is in partnership with
Lewis Jobes in the butchering business; and Anna M (Mrs Scott) died May 18,
1883,
 Mr Scott is a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
belongs to George D Baird Post, No 178.