Elbert Lynn Scott signed portrait “To Martha, All my love, Lynn” (photographer unknown)
Elbert Lynn Scott
Born May 27, 1922, in Moran, Shackelford, Texas as the first child of Egbert Monroe Scott and Myrtle Jane (Morrison) Scott. He had five siblings: Robert Oren, Jack Edward, Roger Coleman, Jo Ann, and Mary Jean. Lynn died from a vehicle accident in Albany, Texas, on June 8, 1974, at age 52. When he was twenty-six, he married Martha Jean Avent in October 1948. Three years later, on September 25, 1951, their son, Bob Roe Scott, was born weighing six pounds, twelve ounces in San Angelo, Texas. When he was thirty-eight, he married Dorothy Woodward in San Angelo, Texas. There were no children born into that marriage. Though they remained friends for the rest of his life, the marriage survived only two years.
Lynn was born and raised in Shackelford County, Texas. He was known to hold membership in a Masonic Lodge.
Lynn’s early life was impacted by the Great Depression and likely more significantly by the Dust Bowl between 1931-1939. The Dust Bowl was a period of repeating destructive dust storms in the southern plains of the United States.
As those storms were ending, Lynn enlisted in the Army. He served in the military during World War II in the Army, surviving the D-Day operation in Normandy, France. Seeing action during World War II left him, like many, with horror for the rest of his life. Later wars, the Korean and Vietnam, no doubt re-kindled those dreadful memories.
Employed as a linesman with Santa Fe Railroad, his work required frequent relocation within Texas and New Mexico repairing company property.
Late in his life, the first-person lands on the moon.
Bob Roe Scott, Son
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