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Name: DR JAMES MURPHY SCOTT
Birth: 1830 in VA
Death: 1918 in ST LOUIS,MO

Father: HARROD BRUNSKILL SCOTT b: 1808 in VA
Mother: SARAH JORDON CHRISTIAN b: 1795 in VA

Marriage 1 ESTELLE (STELLA) KIRKER b: 1838
Married: in MO
Children
STELLA L SCOTT b: 1862
THOMAS HARROD SCOTT b: 1870