When Harriet Amelia Butcher was born in March 1851, in Clay Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States, her father, David Leroy Butcher, was 36 and her mother, Keziah Mildred Woodall, was 28. She married William Scott about 1870, in Clay Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 9 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Mercer, Missouri, United States for about 20 years and Newtown, Sullivan, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 5 March 1931, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.