From the Matagorda County History & Genealogy page
By Dr. Gordon E. Richardson
Dr. Edward Eugene Scott was born February 20, 1867, in Lampasas, Texas.
His parents were Dr. Morgan Jackson and Harriett Kenney Scott. They were natives of Gasconade County, Missouri, both being born there in 1821.
This family moved to Texas in 1852 and settled in the town of Lampasas.
His father, Dr. Morgan Jackson Scott, was a pioneer doctor, stock raiser and Texas Ranger Captain.
When Edward was five years of age, his father was killed in a gunfight on the post office steps of Lampasas.
His mother married Jackson Holly on Aug. 6, 1877, when Edward was ten years of age. Harriett Scott Holly died in 1911.
Dr. E.E. Scott was a graduate of the University of Louisville and later graduated from the John Sealy School of Medicine in Galveston. Scott acquired his education by working while attending school.
Scott also took post-graduate courses from time to time in Chicago, New York and New Orleans.
He practiced medicine in El Campo, Hawley, Van Vleck and Matagorda before coming to Bay City.
He practiced in Bay City for 31 years and operated the Scott Drug Company until the time of his death May 28, 1937.
He was County Health Officer from 1930 to 1937.
A member of the Bay City Masonic Lodge No. 865, he was a 32nd Degree Mason with membership in the Mother Consistory, Valley of Galveston, Orient of Texas, Scottish Rite Bodies, in Galveston.
He was a member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Bay City.
On July 3, 1895, he married Mary Isabelle Freeman of the Sargent area.
They were the parents of three sons: Marvin Ignatius, born April 22, 1900, married Oranell Haynes; Herman Morgan, born December 17, 1906, married Inez Horne; and James Edward, born January 15, 1908, married Fannie Halleman.
Besides raising his own three sons, Dr. and Mrs. Scott reared his niece, Georgia Rich. She married Roy Shoulz and was the mother of George Shoultz and Dr. Charles Shoultz of Bay City.
Dr. Scott died May 27, 1937, and was buried beside his first wife Mary Isabelle Freeman, in Cedarvale Cemetery in Bay City.
Historic Matagorda County, Volume II