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W. F. Scott - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal May 17, 1919

In the death of Captain Scott we mourn with his family their loss of a noble son and brother. 
As citizens we mourn the loss of one worthy of all honor, who by his life, has erected for himself 
a monument more enduring than stone.

Gifted by nature with unusual ability and with the will and determination to avail himself in full 
measure of every opportunity to press forward in his chosen profession, measuring always up to the 
full standard of manhood, ready on the instant on his country's call, it would seem that his experiences 
had fitted him for a life of usefulness and great good to humanity. We cannot know why, after passing 
through so many dangers, and after undergoing such suffering and hardships, he was cut down at the 
threshold of his life work for which he was so fully prepared; but we do know that his suffering and 
hardships were for us, and that he gave a brilliant young life that other men and women and children 
of his country might be saved from calamity, and that his country might be saved from dishonor.

It may be that what seems to us what may be a calamity is in truth a reward. It may be that the suffering 
and privations which he endured were but the training needed to fit him for higher things and that having 
done a man's work in the world he was ... (remainder illegible.)