Helen M. Scott 1902 - 1980

Helen M. Scott was born in 1902 and died in 1980. She was the youngest child of Arthur Carroll Scott Sr, co-founder of the Scott and White Hospital, and Maud Marcia Sherwood of Temple Texas.  Her paternal grandparents were Martha Helen Moran and Rufus F. Scott originally from Tennessee they moved to Texas in a Rockaway Carriage in 1858.  Helen married Walker William Saulsbury.  

Though Helen was from a wealthy family she spent time helping out at her father's hospital.  After the death of her husband in 1944, her involvement in the Presbyterian Church led to missionary and volunteer work in hospitals in India, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Philipines and Japan.  Helen also travelled with other missionaries to speak to Presbyterian congregations about the work the missionaries were doing.   

In addition, Helen had a love of the arts with a particular interest in theatre.  She was one of the original Board of Governors of the Temple Civic Theatre which was chartered in 1968.  

She and her husband are buried in Hillcrest Cemetery in Temple Texas.

Helen Scott
Merry Xmas to
Cousin Harrel

                                                                                                 

   Helen and Harrell are 1st cousins.  

This is Charles
Harrell Moran,
the lucky recipient
of Helen's picture.

  

Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott Jr, 1890 - 1956 Temple Texas

Arthur Carroll Scott Jr was the son of Arthur Carroll Scott Sr (1865-1940) and Maude Marcia Sherwood (1868-1950).  He was married to Harriet May Brown September 1916.  They later divorced.  His second wife was Greneta Courtney, they married in 1946. Arthur C. Scott followed in the footsteps of his renowned father and became a physician.   After the death of his father in 1940,  Arthur Jr assumed the role of Chief Surgeon at Scott and White Memorial Hospital which had been co-founded by his father and Dr. Raleigh White Jr. In 1950 he became the President of the hospital and the foundation.  He stepped down from the position in 1953 but remained on the board of directors.  On February 21, 1956, Arthur Carroll Scott Jr committed suicide.  The following pictures were taken by findagrave contributor Linda and are used here with her permission.

I am curious about the emblem at the bottom of his headstone.
Does anyone know what organization uses that symbol?

Scott Family Memorial marking the family plot.

Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott Sr. renowned Cancer Specialist

Martha Helen Moran was one of John Williamson Moran's sisters.  She married Rufus Franklin Scott and they moved to Gainesville Texas.  She and Rufus had five sons: William, Moran, Arthur, Oscar and Berry. Arthur Carroll (also seen as Carrell) Scott was born 1865 and died in 1940.

Arthur Carroll Scott Sr.  packed a lot into that 85 years.  He graduated from Bellevue Medical College in 1886 winning an internship to Western Pennsylvania Hospital.  He returned to Gainesville and married Maud M. Sherwood and began private practice in 1889.  He was appointed Chief Surgeon in 1892 of the Gold, Colorado and Sante Fe Hospital in Temple Texas.  He and Dr. Raleigh R. White Jr formed a private partnership in 1897 and in 1904 they founded they Temple Sanitarium which the directed together.  Dr. White died in 1917 and Dr. Scott established a partnership with Dr. B.V. Brindley Sr and Dr. M.W. Sherwood.  The hospital became the Scott and White Hospital in 1922.

Dr. Scott was in internationally respected authority in the diagnosis and treatment of Cancer.  In 1933 Scott and White Hospital received accreditation from the American College of Surgeons as a cancer treatment center, the first in Texas.  Dr. Scott was active in local organizations and numerous medical organizations. The hospital he helped co-found became a multi-specialty treatment facility and is renowned throughout the United States.  Dr. Scott even has an historical marker dedicated to him by the Texas Historical Survey Committee.

Here is a Christmas card from Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Carroll Scott Sr., to his Moran cousins in Dresden, TN.  The envelope is missing but we know it pre-dates 1940 as that's when Dr. Scott passed away.