Obituary: Scott-- P.B. Scott, Sr., born in Maury County, Tenn. August 2nd, 1814. His father who was an itinerant Methodist preacher, moved soon after to Giles county, and from thence to Lauderdale county, Ala; from ther to Texas, landing at the mouth of the Brazos in 1831. He professed religion and joined the Methodist Church when in his seventeenth year in whose communion he lived through all the vicissitudes of frontier and army life a consistent member. He was married in 1841, and settled five miles east of where Caldwell now stands in what was then Milam county-- now Burleson--before the Indians or buffalo had left the prairie on which he settled. On the place he first settled he lived until the day of his death, which occurred, Sept. 12th, 1886. He took an active part in rescuing our Empire State from the Mexicans and Indians; was with Col. Bowie at the battle of Concepcion, was in the grass fight, and in Milburn's Division at the storming of San Antonio, in 1835. When the war of the rebellion broke out, although past the age of military duty, he entered the ranks of the Confederate army and participated in several of the severest battles in the Southwest. By dint of honest persevering effort, he acquired a handsome property. His rules for years were never to allow his pastor's salary to fall behind, as his church. Toward all benevolent enterprises his heart and hand was always open. he came as near as near fulfilling the command to take up his "cross daily" as any one I ever knew. His last illness was protracted and very painful; when spoken to about getting well, his eye seemed fixed on the "land beyond," and his preference to join the part of his family on the other shore. His greatest desire was to die easy, and shure enough, a few hours before he died he passed the boundary of pain, and in this happy state passed away quietly as an infant falling asleep. Father Scott leaves an aged companion and seven children, together with a very large circle of relatives scattered over Texas. The number of his friends is only limited by those who ever knew him. No preacher now living, who has been on the Caldwell circuit during the last forty-five years but, will remember with grateful heart the hospitalities of Bro Scott's comfortable home. The writer was his pastor for seven years, hence I know something of his work, and the question comes up in our mind, who will take his place at Elizabeth Chapel? One of the best men that ever lived in Texas is gone to Heaven. May the mantle of the departed father fall upon the sons.
J. L. Lemons, Writer
Obituary: County Mourns Oldest Native
November 18, 1934
Philip Bruce Scott, probably the oldest citizen born in Burleson County, died Sunday morning, November 18, 1934, after a brief illness. With Rev. J. F. Kidd officiating, funeral services were conducted at the Methodist church Monday afternoon, using only instrumental music with Mr. Scott's granddaughter, Mrs. Shirley Potts Baldridge, at the organ. P. B. Scott was born in this county November 1, 1845, and was the son of Mary Rice and Philip Bruce Scott, Sr., who came to this county one hundred years ago. Mr. Scott lived and served in Burleson county his entire life and volunteered his services to the Confederacy at the age of fourteen. Interment was made in the cemetary at the old Elizabeth Chapel, a church built ninety-nine years ago by his ancestors and named for his grandmother. The following grandsons of P.B. Scott acted as pallbearers: George Potts, Thomas Scott, Everett Scott, Marion Scott, Hewlett Rockett and Buist Sharp. P. B. Scott is survived by six living children and two stepsons - J. P. Scott of Austin, Mrs. Bettie Scott, John Scott and Mrs. R. H. Rockett of Caldwell, Griffin Johnson of San Francisco, California and S. D. Johnson of Dallas; eighteen grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, two sisters and one brother.