Henry P. Scott (Issaquena County)
Henry P. Scott
State House: 1878-1879
Born: North Carolina
Planter. Also served as sheriff (appointed by Governor Alcorn and then reelected) and tax collector of Issaquena County. Estimated birth year varies widely: 1846 in the 1878 House Journal, 1825 on the 1870 census, and 1830 on the 1880 census. Listed with wife Nancy and family on the 1870 census in Vicksburg and the 1880 census in Issaquena County.
Signature of Henry P. Scott from an 1871 letter to Governor Alcorn's office
Weekly Mississippi Pilot, 8 Jan 1870
Letter to the governor's office, 20 May 1871
Letter to the governor's office, 24 May 1871
Vicksburg Daily Times, 15 Feb 1872
Weekly Democrat-Times, 12 Dec 1874
Daily Mississippi Pilot, 25 Sep 1875
Vicksburg Herald, 2 Feb 1886
Weekly Democrat-Times, 1 Oct 1887
Daily Commercial Herald, 2 May 1890
Vicksburg Evening Post, 18 Jun 1895