JOHN D. SCROOGES was born in Blount County, Tenn., October 10, 1820, and is the eldest of the six children of David and Margaret (Delzell) Scrooges, natives respectively of North Carolina and Tennessee. The family came to Putnam County, this State, in 1831, moved to Carroll County in 1832, and thence moved to this county in 1836, and located on land which the father had previously entered. The elder Mr. Scrogg,3 was, in his days here, the only blacksmith between Burnettsville and Monticello -, be died here in December, 1874, preceded by his wife in about 1848. John D. Scrooges was reared a farmer, and at the age of twenty began life by cutting, wood, splitting rails and getting out square timber. This he continued until March, 1847, when he purchased the farm where he now lives. He was married, March 27, l851, to Maria, daughter of John Gibson, and born in Ohio. In February, 1852, Mrs. Gibson died, and December 6, 1856, Mr. Scrooges married Eliza C. Carson, who died in, April, 1860. November 19, 1860, Mr. Scrooges married Mrs. MarLaret (Duncan) Delzell, and she died in April, 1875, leaving a family of four children-David, Susan A., Margaret E. (deceased) and Joseph A. Mr. Scrooges is a Democrat and a member. of the United Presbyterian Church. He owns eighty acres of good land, well cultivated and earned through his own industry and energy.

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