Reuben S. Scott, farmer of Hardeman County and resident of Hickory Valley, is a native of Wake County, N.C., born February 23, 1825, son of Joseph and Susanna (Halliburton) Scott. The parents were both natives of Wake County where they were married and lived all their lives. The father was born in 1781 and was of Scotch descent. He was a planter by occupation; for a number of years held the office of magistrate and was at one time deputy sheriff of his county. He served as second lieutenant of infantry in the war of 1812 and died in his native county at the age of eighty-seven years. The mother was of English ancestry, born about 1786 and died in the ninety-fourth year of her age. Reuben S. is the eleventh of a family of twelve children and secured a good education. In 1849 he immigrated to Hardeman County, Tenn., and with the exception of two years has ever since made it his home. In 1862, he enlisted as first lieutenant in Company L, Thirteenth Tennessee Regiment (Infantry), was received in Cheatham’s division and participated in the battles of Shiloh, Richmond, Perrysville and Murfreesboro, and on account of ill health was honorably discharged in 1863. In 1868, he purchased the farm thirteen miles southwest of Bolivar where he lived five years, but early in 1874 he moved to Hickory Valley and has since been one of its substantial residents. He owns upward of 400 acres of land, besides a town lot within sixty acres connected. May 23, 1850, Mr. Scott married Miss Ehiza J. Perry, a native of Chatham County, N.C., born October 27, 1827. To this marriage have been born eight children; three of whom are living. Mr. Scott is a Democrat in politics, and he and family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Source: “The Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Tennessee, 1886”