Recently Wilson House was pleased to welcome family members of Mary Scott who served the Wilsons for many years at their S Street home with her husband Isaac. (From left to right) Emerson Taylor, Angela Taylor Justin Wyatt, Delores Crawford, and Beatrice Wyatt joined Curator John Powell for a tour of Wilson House and a chat about old times. Some of the family members remembered visiting the house before in the 1950s and sharing a birthday cake with great aunt Mary in the kitchen.

Thanks to the family we have learned many interesting facts about Isaac and Mary. In August 1931 after years of service the Scotts purchased their own home at 4434 Hunt Place, NE in the Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, DC. At first the Scotts only spent one night a week at their new home, spending the rest of their time working at S Street.

Isaac and Mary continued in Mrs. Wilson’s service at S Street into the 1950s. Isaac retired first due to poor health. Mary’s niece, Lucy, and her husband the Reverend James Christopher Wyatt moved in with the Scotts on Hunt Place in the late 1950s to help care for the elderly couple. Isaac died on May 30, 1959 at the age of 83. Edith Wilson attended his funeral at the Shiloh Baptist Church and visited the family at their home on Hunt Place afterwards. Mary died on January 15, 1968 at the age of 85. The couple are buried at National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery in Landover, MD.

Mary Scott’s niece, Lucy, and her husband the Reverend James Christopher Wyatt continued to live in the house on Hunt Place for many years. Dr. Wyatt served as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Highland Park, MD from 1945 to 1973, and passed away in 1977 at the age of 76. Lucy, who passed away in 2008 at the age of 97, was known as a prominent civil rights activist. She organized community groups to advocate for desegregation and picketed for better schools for African American students. The Wyatts’ daughter, Angela, became one of the first African American children to enter the old Maryland Park Junior High School in 1954, something the Scotts were both alive to see.