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Thomas SCRUGGS

Male Abt 1767 - 1828  (~ 61 years)


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  • Name Thomas SCRUGGS  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Birth Abt 1767  Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    • SAR membership application lists his birth date as 1760 and death as 1828.
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 198 
    _MILT SAR 43845  [8] 
    Death 1828  Scott County, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Person ID I198  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Father Thomas SCRUGGS,   b. 1737, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1804, Bedford County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Susannah HUGHES,   b. 1744, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1810, Sinks Grove, Monroe, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Abt 1762 
    Family ID F27  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Judith BUFORD,   b. Abt 1767, Bedford County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1854, Scott County, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 87 years) 
    Marriage 1 Mar 1787  Bedford County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 9, 10] 
    • Viriginia, Marriages, 1785-1940, reference pg 218, FHL micorfilm 30,591.
    Children 
     1. William SCRUGGS,   b. Abt 1788, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     2. Permilia SCRUGGS,   b. 1790, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1829, Carrollton, Carroll, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)  [natural]
     3. 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)  [natural]
     4. Elizabeth SCRUGGS,   b. 1794, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1881 (Age 87 years)  [natural]
     5. John SCRUGGS,   b. Abt 1795, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1829 (Age ~ 34 years)  [natural]
     6. Nancy SCRUGGS,   b. 1801, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     7. Abraham SCRUGGS,   b. 1803   d. 16 Jun 1888, McPherson, McPherson, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)  [natural]
     8. Henry Valentine SCRUGGS,   b. 1806, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [natural]
     9. Simeon SCRUGGS,   b. Abt 1808, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1884 (Age ~ 77 years)  [natural]
     10. Generation 6 SCRUGGS,   b. Scott County, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. various Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Family ID F52  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1767 - Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1 Mar 1787 - Bedford County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1828 - Scott County, Kentucky, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • HISTORY: Dunklin says that Thomas (reference I.4.3.3) "moved to Kentucky with his father and brothers in 1793-94 and settled there on the 'Scruggs Place'. The Scruggs Place was located in Scott County, Kentucky, where Thomas settled with his five grown children (with the exception of his son Gross, who returned to Virginia). He gave to each, adjoining tracts of land near 'Lndsay Station' aout twelve miles from the city of Frankfort, and known to this day as the 'Old Scruggs Place'." (Dunklin, p.32)

      THOMAS SCRUGGS (reference I.4.3.3), "second son of Thomas Scruggs, was born in Virginia. He married in Bedford County, Virginia, March 1, 1787 (by the Rev. Jeremiah Hatcher), Judith Buford, the daughter of Captain James Buford and Elizabeth Bramlett, and a sister of Elizabeth Buford, who had married William Scruggs. Thomas Scruggs went to Kentucky with his father and brothers in 1793-94, and settled there on the 'Scruggs Place.' He had issue: William, Thomas Buford, John, Abraham, Valentine, Simeon, Elizabeth, Pamelia, Nancy". (Dunklin p.42-43)

      Wikitree adds some birth and death dates: ThomasBuford-b1790 in VA/dMar1850 in Jo Daviess, Illinois, Permilia-b1790 in VA/dSept5,1829 in Carrollton, Carroll, KY, John-b1795/d 1829, William-bJun7, 1797 in KY/dSept8,1870 in Owen,KY, Nancy-b1801 in VA/d1870 in New LIberty, Owen KY, HenryValentine-b1805 in Scott Co., VA/ (more info on hiswifeAnna Elizabeth Sinclair, son Marcellus and his wife Amanda Harlow), Simeon [see this database], Abraham [see this database], Elizabeth and Betsy - no known data, then Nancy#2-b1823 in KY.

      MARRIAGE 1787: on Virginia, Marriages 1785-1940. Thomas Scruggs married Judith Buford in 1787 in Virginia.

  • Sources 
    1. [S58] Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940, Found on familysearch.org.

    2. [S59] 1800-Kentucky Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index 1810-1890, Found on ancestry.com.

    3. [S64] Dunklin, Ethel Hastings Scruggs. Scruggs Genealogy (New York, LaPlante & Dunklin Printing Company, 1912), p.32.

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

    5. [S64] Dunklin, Ethel Hastings Scruggs. Scruggs Genealogy (New York, LaPlante & Dunklin Printing Company, 1912), p.71.

    6. [S171] 1810 US Federal Census, Location: Scott, Kentucky; Roll: 8; Page: 173; Image: 00166; Family History Library Film: 0181353. Found on ancestry.com.

    7. [S64] Dunklin, Ethel Hastings Scruggs. Scruggs Genealogy (New York, LaPlante & Dunklin Printing Company, 1912), p.31.

    8. [S135] U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application 1889-1970.

    9. [S55] U.S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900, Source number: 774.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 4.

    10. [S194] A genealogy of the Buford family in America, with records of a number of allied families, Written by Marcus Bainbridge Buford. Published in 1903: San Francisco.


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