Daughter of Abel Fiske and Sar­ah Rock­well Jones, Cla­ra at­tend­ed, in 1856, the first Mu­sic In­sti­tute held in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois by C. M. Ca­dy. She went on to teach mu­sic at the La­dies Sem­in­a­ry, Ly­ons, Io­wa (1859). She mar­ried Hen­ry Clay Scott in 1861. Scott met and was great­ly en­cour­aged by Ho­ra­tio Palm­er, who helped pub­lish ma­ny of her songs. She is­sued three col­lect­ions be­fore her untim­e­ly death, in­clud­ing:

• The Roy­al An­them Book, 1882, the first an­them col­lect­ion by a wo­man
• Happy Songs, Truth in Song for Lov­ers of Truth Ev­er­y­where (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Stock­ham Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1896)
• Short An­thems, 1897

• Erickson, p. 390
• Hustad, p. 315
• Reynolds, pp. 400-01

1. God Is Love
2. Open My Eyes, That I May See
3. Rejoice with Me