Hance THOMPSON

                   JAMES SCOTT (second son of Joseph and Sarah (Douglas) Scott) was born January 1, 1836, on the borne farm in Mt. Pleasant township, this county, receiving his education in the district schools of the neighborhood. In 1867 he was united in marriage with Eliza Thompson, a native of Carroll county, Ohio, daughter of Hance and Eliza (Henderson) Thompson. The parents were born in Ireland, emigrating to America in 1830. In 1834 they moved to a farm in Carroll county, Ohio, thence to Harrison county, Ohio, where he died February 9, 1892, having been preceded in 1863 by his wife. She was the mother of the following children: Sarah (deceased in Carroll county, Ohio, at the age of ten years), Margaret (deceased in Pittsburgh, Penn.), George (deceased in childhood), Eliza (wife of James Scott), George (deceased in his eighteenth year), Jane (living in Harrison county, Ohio), Sarah (wife of Joseph Thompson, Carroll county, Ohio) and W. P. (living in Carroll county, Ohio).
Text taken from page 529 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).