Nauman Scott - Judge Scott's Obituary

Judge Scott's Obituary

Judge Scott's funeral was held at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Alexandria with two nephews, the Reverend LaVerne "Pike" Thomas and Deacon Charles F. Read, Jr., officiating. Burial was at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans in the Scott family plot of his grandfather, noted contractor Nathaniel Graves Scott (1848–1926).

Another childhood friend and associate, well-known Louisiana political figure who, like Judge Scott, was born in New Roads, deLesseps Story Morrison, Sr., a former mayor of New Orleans and ambassador to the Organization of American States, is also interred at Metairie Cemetery. The Provostys and Morrisons were political allies and sometimes rivals in the tumultuous local politics of Pointe Coupée Parish.

Judge Scott was preceded in death by his wife Blanche Hammond, who herself was active in Republican politics and whose mother, Hilda Phelps Hammond, penned one of the most celebrated anti-Huey Long books in the 1930s, Let Freedom Ring. A younger brother, oilman Albin Provosty Scott, likewise preceded him in death. Survivors included three sons, Nauman S. Scott, III, and Arthur Hammond Scott, both of New Orleans, and Jock Scott; one daughter, Ashley Scott Rankin of Dallas; three sisters, Sidonie Scott Thomas of Alexandria, M'Adele Scott Read of Covington, and Natalie Scott Persons of Mobile, Alabama, and six grandchildren.

In 1981, Judge Scott's oldest and youngest sons, Nauman, III (born May 10, 1945), and Hammond Scott (born 1950), founded Black Top Records, which specializes in rhythm and blues music. Nauman, III, a New Orleans lawyer as well as record company executive, died at the age of fifty-six on January 8, 2002, on what would have been his parents' sixtieth anniversary. His death came four months after Judge Scott's death. The record company folded about 1999. Middle-son Jock Scott died on April 25, 2009, at the age of sixty-one while working in his yard at his residence on Jackson Street in Alexandria.

Jock Scott was an Alexandria lawyer and assistant professor of history at Louisiana State University at Alexandria. In 2004, he tried yet again for higher office, running for Fifth District congressman, but he ran afoul of a "political dirty trick" as the popular freshman Democratic incumbent, Rodney Alexander, switched affiliation at the last hour of qualifying to the Republican Party, bringing the state GOP apparatus along with him. Jock Scott remained in the race, but without the endorsement of his party trailed far behind.