Individual Details
Eddie Earnest SCOTT
(26 May 1897 - 24 Jul 1927)
[young.FTW]
Known to be a tall man over 6'2" with very wide shoulders. As a kid he worked for his dad off and on but he had a strong liking to travel and would at a moments notice take off. One oral history story has him in Willows with his brother Stanley when a freight train rolled by heading north, so at the spur of the moment Eddie jumps off the wagon and runs down the train jumping into an open box car with the ease of a high jumper. He waved good by and wasn't seen again for many years.
Eddy joined the U.S. Army 13th Cavalry and in 1916 was chasing Poncho Villa and his Villista's in New Mexico and Old Mexico with Black Jack Persing General U.S. Army in the last Cavalry action to ever take place in America and the first Mechanized (gun trucks and combat cars) units ever formed which would lead to the modern army of today. The 13 Cavalry was then formed into the 1st Division (Big Red One) and under the leadership of General Persing was sent off to the trenches of France to fight in some of the worst battles of WW 1.
Chico Enterprise July 1927:
Earnest E Scott 30, native of Canada died suddenly yesterday afternoon at the Feather River Pine Mills near Orville. Death was due to hemorageing of the lungs.
Scott was widely known here and had worked for Contractor Wilson on the concrete mixer between Flume and Orient on 7 th St up until Thursday evening. He then went to Quincy and returned to Orville where he secured employment with the lumber co and was to go to work the next day.
As he approached the lumber from which he was knocked a year ago by a crane he was seized by a fit of coughing which brought on the fatal hemorrhage.
In the former accident, Scott after being struck by the crane was knocked from the top of the pile of lumber to the ground striking his head on a railroad tie. His skull was slightly fractured at that time and Scott was confined to the hospital for several weeks but apparently recovered.
Recently he had complained of a pain in his chest. He was a veteran of the world war during which he saw a great deal of action.
Notes from Oroville Record:
Scott was layed off from the mixer job so the next day drove up to Quincy to look for work, finding none he returned to Oroville. His friends stated he was uneasy about going back to the lumber yard where the year before he was knocked off a stack of lumber 25 feet to the ground. But needing a job he went in the afternoon and got the job but as he was walking through the yard at the exact place he was knocked to the ground he went into a coughing fit, spitting up huge amounts of blood, and died.
A veteran friend who served with Eddie in the First Division in France during World War 1 stated that Eddie was in all the major actions and that the hemorrhage from the lungs could have been caused by the Mustard Gas used during the war. FIELD NAME Page FIELD NAME Page FIELD NAME Page
Known to be a tall man over 6'2" with very wide shoulders. As a kid he worked for his dad off and on but he had a strong liking to travel and would at a moments notice take off. One oral history story has him in Willows with his brother Stanley when a freight train rolled by heading north, so at the spur of the moment Eddie jumps off the wagon and runs down the train jumping into an open box car with the ease of a high jumper. He waved good by and wasn't seen again for many years.
Eddy joined the U.S. Army 13th Cavalry and in 1916 was chasing Poncho Villa and his Villista's in New Mexico and Old Mexico with Black Jack Persing General U.S. Army in the last Cavalry action to ever take place in America and the first Mechanized (gun trucks and combat cars) units ever formed which would lead to the modern army of today. The 13 Cavalry was then formed into the 1st Division (Big Red One) and under the leadership of General Persing was sent off to the trenches of France to fight in some of the worst battles of WW 1.
Chico Enterprise July 1927:
Earnest E Scott 30, native of Canada died suddenly yesterday afternoon at the Feather River Pine Mills near Orville. Death was due to hemorageing of the lungs.
Scott was widely known here and had worked for Contractor Wilson on the concrete mixer between Flume and Orient on 7 th St up until Thursday evening. He then went to Quincy and returned to Orville where he secured employment with the lumber co and was to go to work the next day.
As he approached the lumber from which he was knocked a year ago by a crane he was seized by a fit of coughing which brought on the fatal hemorrhage.
In the former accident, Scott after being struck by the crane was knocked from the top of the pile of lumber to the ground striking his head on a railroad tie. His skull was slightly fractured at that time and Scott was confined to the hospital for several weeks but apparently recovered.
Recently he had complained of a pain in his chest. He was a veteran of the world war during which he saw a great deal of action.
Notes from Oroville Record:
Scott was layed off from the mixer job so the next day drove up to Quincy to look for work, finding none he returned to Oroville. His friends stated he was uneasy about going back to the lumber yard where the year before he was knocked off a stack of lumber 25 feet to the ground. But needing a job he went in the afternoon and got the job but as he was walking through the yard at the exact place he was knocked to the ground he went into a coughing fit, spitting up huge amounts of blood, and died.
A veteran friend who served with Eddie in the First Division in France during World War 1 stated that Eddie was in all the major actions and that the hemorrhage from the lungs could have been caused by the Mustard Gas used during the war. FIELD NAME Page FIELD NAME Page FIELD NAME Page
Events
| Birth | 26 May 1897 | Sinclair, Ontario, Canada |  | ||
| Death | 24 Jul 1927 | Oroville Calif | | ||
| Marriage | Living |
Families
| Spouse | Living |
| Father | Louis Hamilton SCOTT (1870 - 1928) |
| Mother | Harriet Victoria YOUNG (1872 - 1939) |
| Sibling | Emily Leana SCOTT (1893 - ) |
| Sibling | Clara May SCOTT (1894 - ) |
| Sibling | Olive Alberta SCOTT (1899 - ) |
| Sibling | Stanley Victor SCOTT (1901 - 1982) |
Endnotes
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