When George Motley Scott was born on 12 April 1854, in Manchester, Adams, Ohio, United States, his father, Alphonso Fisher Scott, was 27 and his mother, Elsey Jane “Alice” Crawford, was 29. He married Hannah Lucas about 1883. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Manchester Township, Adams, Ohio, United States in 1900. He died on 7 March 1935, in Manchester, Adams, Ohio, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Manchester Ioof Cemetery, Manchester, Adams, Ohio, United States.