Scott died at Valley of Lagoons on 29 June 1890. A large granite monument was sent from Great Britain by his brothers intended for his grave at Valley of Lagoons. On arrival at Cardwell, it was found to be too large to transport up the rough track to Valley of Lagoons, so it was erected in Cardwell instead on land owned by the Scott brothers between Clitheroe Street and Dalrymple Street. In 1914 the family gifted the land with the headstone and five adjoining blocks to the Anglican Church on the condition that they maintained the headstone in perpetuity. In 1965the church sold the land and in 1966 built a church at 145 Victoria Street and, using a crane, relocated the headstone to the front of the new church.