Post by *Marjorie on Aug 18, 2020 20:04:01 GMT -7
18 April 1853 – Fenwick, Aryshire, Scotland
24 September 1940 – Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico
Robert Logan Scott born April 18, 1853 in Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, son of John Ferguson Scott and Ann Shields. He was baptized in the LDS Church December 5, 1871 by Thomas Godfrey. The ice in the River Clyde had to be broke for his baptism. He was confirmed by Alexander Rankin.
He emigrated to Utah and there married Catherine Latimer, the daughter of James Latimer, also from Scotland, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, August 11, 1876. He obtained work as a Section Boss on the railroad near Deseret, Millard County, Utah, and homesteaded a farm there.
In 1892, their friend Robert Logan Scott’s father-in-law, their boss James Bone Latimer of Deseret, moved his family due to polygamy, into Old Mexico to the Mormon Colony of Colonia Juarez and remained. Robert Logan Scott moved there also.