{"id":105,"date":"2011-12-11T15:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=105"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:53:03","slug":"scruggs-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/scruggs-john\/","title":{"rendered":"SCRUGGS, John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRUGGS, John, Clerk and Master of Chancery court of Grundy Co.; born Marion Co., Tenn., Feb. 19, 1844; Irish, Scotch and German descent; son of<strong> Carter and Lucinda (Killgore) SCRUGGS<\/strong>; his father was a farmer and general merchanic; paternal grandfather<strong> John SCRUGGS<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Millie (Manifee) SCRUGGS<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Charles KILGORE<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Nancy (Layne) KILLGORE<\/strong>; educated at Altamont Academy, Grundy Co., Tenn.; in early life clerked in store, later taught school; \u00a0married twice, first to <strong>Winnie Jane WALKER<\/strong> Jan. 24, 1867, second <strong>Mrs. Bertha A. O&#8217;LEARY<\/strong>, nee FRENDENBERG, Nov. 8, 1893; member Masons and Odd Fellow; is W.M.M. Masonic lodge; Democrat; Clerk of County Court of Grundy Co., twenty-four years; appointed Clerk and Master Chancery Court of Grundy Co. 1903; joined Confederate States Army before he had attained the age of 17 years, in Sept. 1861, participated in all the important battles of the Army of Tenn. Under <strong>Gens. Albert S. JOHNSTON<\/strong>,<strong> Braxton BRAGG<\/strong>,<strong> John B. HOOD, G.T. BEAUREGARD<\/strong> and others until he surrendered under <strong>Gen. Joseph E. JOHNSON<\/strong>, April 26, 1865; was Lieutenant, First, Sergeant, and held other minor military offices during the war; participated in battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and others; twice wounded, but not seriously, once captured by the enemy but escaped; is largely interested in farming enterprises; member M.E. Church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCRUGGS, John, Clerk and Master of Chancery court of Grundy Co.; born Marion Co., Tenn., Feb. 19, 1844; Irish, Scotch and German descent; son of Carter and Lucinda (Killgore) SCRUGGS; his father was a farmer and general merchanic; paternal grandfather John SCRUGGS, paternal grandmother Millie (Manifee) SCRUGGS, maternal grandfather Charles KILGORE, maternal grandmother Nancy (Layne) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,4062,4419],"tags":[127,131,128,129,126,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-grundy","7":"category-whoswho","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-killgore","10":"tag-layne","11":"tag-manifee","12":"tag-oleary","13":"tag-scruggs","14":"tag-walker","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13939,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/13939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}