Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Elder Larkin Scott

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Elder Larkin Scott, of Bentonville, Ark., was born in Barren County, 
Ky., in 1818, and is a son of Samuel and Hannah (Phillips) Scott. The 
father was of Scotch-Irish descent, born in North Carolina, and there 
resided until his marriage, when he immigrated to Kentucky, and died 
in Callaway County, of that State, in 1837. He was a farmer. His wife 
was born in East Tennessee, and died in 1842, having borne eleven 
children, only two of whom are living. Larkin was the ninth in the 
family, and was educated in the pioneer schools of Kentucky. April 17, 
1836, he was married to Miss Charlotte, daughter of Daniel and Sarah 
(Caldwell) Kirk, who are Virginians by birth. Mrs. Scott was born in 
Daviess County, Ky., in 1819, and is the mother of twelve living 
children: Francis M. (deceased), Margaret A. (wife of M. A. Jenkins). 
James F., Mary J. (wife of David Hoover), Sarah C. (wife of Frank 
Carter), Newton B., John W., Celia F. (wife of Larkin Wilson), David 
P., Martha M. (wife of William Oakley), William T. and Matilda Ellen. 
Rev. Scott has sixty-seven grandchildren and seven great-
grandchildren. In 1840 he left Kentucky and moved to Dade County, Mo., 
but in 1856 came to Benton County, Ark., and purchased a farm of 200 
acres four miles from Bentonville. In February, 1888, he moved to 
Bentonville, where he expects to pass the remainder of his days. In 
1842 he became a member of the Christian Church, and in 1868 was 
ordained a minister of that denomination. He organized the Antioch 
Church, and was pastor of the same for about eighteen years. He also 
organized a congregation at Robinson School-house, and was pastor of 
that flock for eight years. He is [p.889] the organizer and pastor of 
the Wire Spring Church, and is also pastor of the Lowell Church. Elder 
Scott is the eldest minister in Benton County, where he is widely 
known as a true Christian gentleman and a useful and upright citizen. 
His wife has been a member of the Christian Church for fifty-four 
years. Their youngest child still resides with them. Elder Scott 
preached his first sermon in a small brick school house in 
Bentonville. The house is still standing. 

[ He did not stay in Bentonville or at the very least he is
not buried there.  He is buried in Hanson Cemetery, Texas, off of Hwy
377 between Dublin and Commanche,Texas.    My uncle Wendell Hoover and
his son Mark, visited the cemetery and took pictures.  Larkin's
daughter, my great-grandmother, Mary Jane, and her husband, David
Hoover, are both buried there too.  Larken died on 5/22/1903; Mary Jane
on 6/24/1922; and David on 4/12/1921.  Two more Scotts are buried
there:  Mary Jane's brother and sister -- W.P. (1859 - 1936) and Ellen
(11/14/1861 - 11/13/1937) --  next to Larkin Scott.]

Julie Anna Hoover Smylie (daughter of David Herman Hoover, son of 
George Hoover, son of David and Mary Jane Scott Hoover)
Email:  smylie@pnx.com