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Marjorie Lowanda SCRUGGS

Female 1919 - 2011  (92 years)


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  • Name Marjorie Lowanda SCRUGGS  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Birth 3 Feb 1919  Oilton, Creek, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Female 
    Name Marguerita  [1] 
    Reference Number 252 
    Death 20 Apr 2011  Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7] 
    • Buried in Santa Rosa Memorial Park, Santa Rose, Sonoma County, Califronia, Plot: Veterans Lawn, Grave 2513-3B-DD. FIndagarve Memorial# 141624764
    Person ID I252  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Father Walter Blackburn SCRUGGS,   b. 4 Sep 1877, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jan 1941, Napa, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Violet Eudora DODD,   b. 21 Nov 1898, Coshocton, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 May 1979, Napa, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 29 Jun 1918  Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 8] 
    Family ID F88  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Robert Melton JEFFRIES,   b. 28 Feb 1911, Louisville, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jun 1952 (Age 41 years) 
    Marriage 15 Feb 1936  San Benito, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Children 
     1. Robert Milton JEFFRIES, Jr,   b. 4 Oct 1936, San Benito, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Feb 1971, Contra Costa, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years)  [natural]
     2. Living
    Family ID F136  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Family 2 Lewis Martin HENDERSON,   b. 23 Feb 1921, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jun 1977, Mendocino, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Living
     3. Jean HENDERSON  [natural]
    Family ID F463  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Family 3 Hurcel L DONALDSON,   b. 1910   d. 2001, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years) 
    Marriage 24 Mar 1979  Mendocino, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Divorce 25 Jan 1980  Mendocino, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Family ID F464  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 3 Feb 1919 - Oilton, Creek, Oklahoma, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 15 Feb 1936 - San Benito, California, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 24 Mar 1979 - Mendocino, California, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDivorce - 25 Jan 1980 - Mendocino, California, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 20 Apr 2011 - Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Notes 
    • From Ancestry, Henderson Family Tree, her name is Marjorie and she married Lewis Martin Henderson (1921-1997). They are in the same grave (see findagrave) with dates Feb.3, 1919 to April 20, 2011. Burial (for both) is in Santa Rosa Memorial Park in Sanata, Sonoma Co., California, Plot: Vets Lawn 2513-3A. They had 3 children. Is this the right Marjorie? There is a marriage certificate which indicates that Marjorie was married to Robert Milton Jeffries in California and they have 2 children in 1940: Babie/Bobie, age3 and Bill, age2, living in Tennessee. Death information comes from Henderson Family Tree. So, was she married to Jeffries from 1936 till at least 1942 and then married to Lewis Martin Henderson after 1942? No data to confirm this. Lewis died in 1977. Then, there is information that Marjorie Lowanda Scruggs Jeffries married Hersel Loyed Donaldson in 1979 and then divorced him in 1980 (less than 1 year later). If this is the right order of the marriages, then she returned to her Henderson name after the divorce from Donaldson.

      CENSUS 1920: Marguarite Scruggs, 11 months, b in Oklahoma, living with parents: Walter42/Violet22 Scruggs. location: Mounds Township, Creek County, Oklahoma

      MARRIAGE 1936: Marjorie Lowanda Scruggs married Robert Milton Jeffries on Feb. 15, 1936 in San Benito, California. (California, County Marriages)

      CENSUS 1940: on familysearch.org. Marjorie Jeffries, 21, b. in Oklahoma, eduation: grade8, living with husband:Robert29 and two children: Babie3/Bill2 Jeffries. location: Louisville, Bount County, Tennessee

      HISTORY 1942: on ancestry.com. Robert and Marjorie Jeffries with 2 children listed on TVA land relocation document.

      (Note: Robert Milton Jeffries marries again in 1944 so he and Marjorie must have divorced by then. She remarries after 1944, to Lewis Martin Henderson (no documentation found to date. Then Martin Henderson dies in 1977.)

      Note: the second marriage, to Lewis Martin Henderson is documented in Ancestry Family Trees. No source for this was found. But GenealogyBank Obituaries list Marjorie Henderson as a sister to Walter and Joseph Scruggs.

      MARRIAGE 1979: on ancestry.com. Marjorie L Henderson (Scruggs) married Hurcel L Donaldson in Mendocina, California. Less than a year later, they divorce on January 25, 1980.

      BURIAL 2011: on findagrave.com. Marjorie L. Henderson died April 20, 2011 and is buried in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, wife of Lewis Martin Henderson, her second husband. Buried in Santa Rosa Memorial Park, Santa Rose, Sonoma County, Califronia, Plot: Veterans Lawn, Grave 2513-3B-DD. FIndagarve Memorial# 141624764

      the rest here was found on Ancestry in Family Trees (May 24, 2017).

      2019: DNA matches to two daughters of Marjorie and Lewis Henderson; not clear yet which of the daughters these are; Possibly Lois and Charlotte. They would be 2C to me. They are Lois Heaney (175 cMs) and MenigC (171 cMs).

      HJ is a DNA match (109 cMs). His tree is "Jeffries Family Tree" on ancestry but it is not certain how the connection is, through whom.

      CHILDREN: mentioned in GenealogyBank obituaries: Jean (Gary) Lewis, Lois Heaney (Dan Moffmann), Charlotte (Carlie) Anderson. There may also be a son: Lew Henderson, Jr.
      - between 1940 and 1944, Marjorie and Robert separate/divorce. Marjorie remarries.
      - 1944 Robert marries again -- Elizabeth Vineyard (Tennessee State Marriages 1780-2002) on Jan.27, 1944 in Loudon, Tennessee.

  • Sources 
    1. [S39] 1920 USA Federal Census, Location: Mounds, Creek, Oklahoma; Roll: T625_1459; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 32; Image: 993. Found on Ancestry.com.
      NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29.

    2. [S41] 1940 USA Federal Census, Location: Blount, Tennessee; Roll: T627_3874; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 5-23. Found on Ancestry.com.

    3. [S76] California, County Marriages, 1850-1952.

    4. [S110] US Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014.

    5. [S2] Family Trees from Ancestry, Henderson Family Tree. Last accessed August 2015.

    6. [S92] Find a Grave Index.

    7. [S161] US, Obituary Collection, 1930-2017.

    8. [S27] Internet Information-1, Found on http://www.randlesstation.com/Family2.html.

    9. [S143] California, marriage Index, 1949-1959.

    10. [S160] California, Divorce Index, 1966-1984.


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