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William Reeves SCRUGGS

Male 1811 - 1894  (82 years)


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  • Name William Reeves SCRUGGS  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 11 Feb 1811  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 1606 
    Death 1894  [1
    Person ID I1606  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Father Thomas Buford SCRUGGS,   b. 1790, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Mar 1850, Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Lucy LINDSAY,   b. 1792   d. 1834 (Age 42 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Y  [4
    Family ID F169  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine ELLISTON 
    Family ID F855  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Notes 
    • In North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 p. 196, it says that William Reeves Scruggs married Catherine Elliston (1813-1886) in 1830.
      - William and Catherine had a daughter Sarah (1834-1895) who married Richard Gladson (b 1832) in 1852.
      - Richard and Sarah had a son John A Gladson (b 1853), who married Eva Baker (b 1857) in 1877.
      - John and Eva had a daughter Edyth, b in Mason, Ill.; she married Arthur L Abraham.
      - John and Eva had a daughter Sarah Catherine, b in Mason, Ill.; she married Benjamin Wharton

  • Sources 
    1. [S172] North America, Family Histories 1500-2000, p.196.

    2. [S64] Dunklin, Ethel Hastings Scruggs. Scruggs Genealogy (New York, LaPlante & Dunklin Printing Company, 1912), p.70.

    3. [S270] The History of Thomas Buford Scruggs, Article by Dennis Smith, May 16, 2016, found of ancestry.com.

    4. [S137] Forks of the Elkhorn Church, p. 188.


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