Early Memories of Saugatuck, Michigan : 1830-1930
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930

SCOTT W. EDDY

Mr. Eddy was for sixty-six years a prominent and honored resident of western Allegan County. He was born in Utica, N. Y., June 14, 1843, and in 1844 came with his parents to Indiana via Buffalo, Lake Erie and Toledo, the family settling near Warsaw, where under pioneer conditions he grew to young manhood.

In 1861, on his eighteenth birthday, he enlisted in Company B, 44th Indiana Volunteers for a term of three years. He was with the Army of the Cumberland under Corps Commander Gen. Crittenden. He was ill with typhoid and was sent home on a 30 day furlough, returning in April 1862 to his regiment, and crossing the battlefield of Shiloh to Corinth, Miss. He was on the Bragg and Buell chase crossing the Cumberland mountains to Louisville covering about 500 miles, on to Nashville and in the Battle of Murfreesboro where were eight days of the hardest fighting of the Civil War. Mr. Eddy was wounded, his hip being broken by an ounce ball at the Stone River engagement, after his recovery he again returned to his regiment and was honorably discharged at the close.

In 1864 Mr. Eddy was married to Miss Henrietta Hileman when they came to Ganges and purchased a large fruit farm. There were four children, Mrs. Maud Atkins of California; William, deceased; Mrs. Grace Eaton of Saugatuck and Mrs. Floy Ellis of Kalkaska.

Four years after the first wife's death he was married to Miss Lillian Grimes and two sons, Raymond and Benjamin were born to this union.

Mr. Eddy loved to talk of the old days of the ox teams, corduroy roads, the many hardships of the pioneers and compare them with this age with its every invention and improvement. Mr. Eddy died in March 1930, at the age of 87.