1750s

Mary Scott’s (Bob’s mother) family, the Whites, settle in the Hawfields area.

1755

Hawfields Presbyterian Church is organized.

1780s

The Scott family settles in the Hawfields area.

1888

Robert Walter Scott (Bob Scott’s grandfather) is elected as a Representative in the General Assembly at the age of 27. He will serve for 5 sessions.

1896

William Kerr Scott is born to Robert Walter and Elizabeth Hughes in Haw River, NC.

1900

R.W. Scott is elected to the state Senate; he serves one term.

1901

R.W. Scott is appointed by Governor Aycock to the State Board of Agriculture. He was appointed by six succeeding governors.

1902

The two-room schoolhouse opens in Hawfields. It is the building where Kerr and Robert will attend school.

1917

W. Kerr graduates from NC State University.

1918

W. Kerr joins the Army. He is discharged before entering officer training school because WWI ends.

1919

W. Kerr marries Mary Elizabeth White. They have 3 children Osborne, Mary, and Robert.

1920

W. Kerr is Farm Agent, Alamance County, working with local farmers to improve farming methods.

1928

R.W. Scott is again elected to the state Senate, and resigned from the Board of Agriculture.

1929

R.W. Scott dies. Robert Walter Scott, II (Bob) is born in Haw River.

1930

W. Kerr elected Master of the NC State Grange.

1934

W. Kerr serves as regional director of the Farm Debt Adjustment Program, in the Dept. of Agriculture’s Resettlement Administration.

1936

W. Kerr is elected State Commissioner of Agriculture. He will be elected 3 times.

1938

W. Kerr Scott is awarded the Man of the Year award from Progressive Farmer.

1940

W. Kerr and Ralph Stevens found the Chittlin Club.

1944

Ralph H. Scott (Kerr’s brother) serves two terms as county commissioner.

1947

Bob Scott attends Duke studying pre-med.

1948

W. Kerr is elected the “Go Forward” Governor of NC.

1949

W. Kerr appoints Frank Porter Graham to the Senate to fill a seat vacated by the death of J. Melville Broughton.

1950

Frank Porter Graham is defeated in his run for the Senate seat he is filling by Willis Smith.

1951

Bob Scott marries Jessie Rae Osborne. Ralph H. Scott is elected to the state Senate and will serve until 1980.

1952

Bob Scott graduates from NC State with a degree in Animal Industry.

1953

Bob Scott is drafted into the army and serves in Japan in the Counter Intelligence Corps.

1954

W. Kerr is elected U.S. Senator to fill a Senate seat left by the death of Willis Smith.

1956

Hawfields Presbyterian Church is awarded the Rural Church of the Year award from the NC State Grange.

1958

W. Kerr dies suddenly one week after a heart attack.

1959

Bob and Jessie Rae are voted one of 5 outstanding Young Grange Couples in the nation.