When Winson Pettus " Pet" Shott was born on 25 February 1883, in Piney Cemetery, Waveland, Yell, Arkansas, United States, his father, Charles ( Charlie) A. Shott, was 30 and his mother, Nancy E. Justice, was 18. He married Ethel Sanford about 1904, in Waveland, Yell, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Richland Township, Yell, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Waveland, Yell, Arkansas, United States in 1910. He died on 21 March 1945, at the age of 62, and was buried in Waveland, Yell, Arkansas, United States.