When Clifton Way Scott was born in August 1911, in Eastover, Richland, South Carolina, United States, his father, John Sidney Scott, was 45 and his mother, Carrie Simmons Walker, was 37. He had at least 3 sons with Morey Vernice Huckaby. He lived in School District 10 Eastover, Richland, South Carolina, United States in 1930 and School District 9 Kingville, Richland, South Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 26 February 1995, in South Carolina, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Eastover, Richland, South Carolina, United States.