Evelyn Mayo Davies (1866 - 1918)
Submitted by Stuart D. Scott, Jr.
After someone kindly brought to my attention this wonderful Davies web site, it occurred to me to add a few words about my paternal grandmother, Evelyn Mayo Davies.
The daughter of James Henry Davies and Sarah Elizabeth Harris, Evelyn was born May 23rd, 1866 in Bedford, Virginia, and died at a hospital in Lynchburg on June 28th, 1918.
The photo of Evelyn on the left was taken about 1890. The one on the right is dated 1904.
In 1888, at an evening ceremony at Glendale, Henrico County, Evelyn married Dr. Hugh Donald Scott, and in 1905, Dr. Scott purchased 300 acres in Amhert County. That property, known today as "Laurel Cliff”. was originally called "Cedar Gate Farm, named after the nearby road leading to Elon. From Cedar Gate, “Dr. Don” carried out his country doctor medical practice, as well as serving as the doctor for the Southern Railroad, which gave him the nickname, “the Railroad Doctor.”
Evelyn, or “Miss Eva,” as she was known to friends, apparently bore a strong loyalty to the south in the postbellum era. She was said to be a friend of the lawyer and former Lieutenant-General Jubal A. Early during his latter years in Lynchburg, and she so admired J.E.B Stuart that she chose her second son’s given name, my father, Stuart D. Scott, as the namesake of the famous Confederate cavalry officer.
This information is partly anecdotal, as told to me by my father from his early life at Cedar Gate, and otherwise the data are drawn from the Amherst New Era Progress, Amherst Co. Land Tax Records, and miscellaneous family records.