Scott Field

Education and law practice

After the war, Field attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, where he graduated in 1868. He returned to Mississippi and taught school for two years while studying law. Field was admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1871. of Canton, Mississippi.

He married three times. Field married Victoria Lucky on December 13, 1874, and she died on February 21, 1877, at the age of 26. He married Lucy E. Garrett Randolph on June 6, 1878. Lucy was the widow of George F. Randolph. Scott and Lucy had three sons, Thomas, Scott and Eugene. Lucy died on August 20, 1903. Upon her death, he married the widow Maude Harlan Green.