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Samuel Chesley Scoggins

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Samuel Chesley Scoggins

Birth
North Carolina, USA
Death
22 Dec 1901 (aged 66)
Wise County, Texas, USA
Burial
Bridgeport, Wise County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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BIO OF S. CHESLEY SCOGGINS:
He was born in Macon County, North Carolina, where his father died when he was only four years old. Two years later his mother remarried to a man who was 20 years older than her so his step-father was 60 when Chesley was seven. He was the fifth of six known children and the very last one of them to marry.
In his mid-teen years, all of his family moved a short distance south into northern Georgia. There, in 1853, he married 18 year old Amanda Jane Priest. They immediately moved and lived in extreme northeastern Alabama where their first three children were born. But they moved west again by 1858 to Montgomery County, Arkansas, where they had six more children.
While in Montgomery, the Civil War began and Chesley enlisted in the CSA July 3, 1862. After the war, they moved again, this time to Benton County in northwestern Arkansas. In Benton, they had five more children. Still not content, they moved to north-central Texas in 1877 and had one final child there. They had a total of fifteen children with thirteen living to adulthood.
Chesley was always a farmer, apparently a pretty good one, as by 1900 he owned 670 acres of land in Wise County, located just about where Lake Bridgeport is now, and he also owned another 320 acres not far away in Archer County.
Both Chesley and Amanda died in Wise County during the year 1901.--- Bio, prepared by Gary Duke.
BIO OF S. CHESLEY SCOGGINS:
He was born in Macon County, North Carolina, where his father died when he was only four years old. Two years later his mother remarried to a man who was 20 years older than her so his step-father was 60 when Chesley was seven. He was the fifth of six known children and the very last one of them to marry.
In his mid-teen years, all of his family moved a short distance south into northern Georgia. There, in 1853, he married 18 year old Amanda Jane Priest. They immediately moved and lived in extreme northeastern Alabama where their first three children were born. But they moved west again by 1858 to Montgomery County, Arkansas, where they had six more children.
While in Montgomery, the Civil War began and Chesley enlisted in the CSA July 3, 1862. After the war, they moved again, this time to Benton County in northwestern Arkansas. In Benton, they had five more children. Still not content, they moved to north-central Texas in 1877 and had one final child there. They had a total of fifteen children with thirteen living to adulthood.
Chesley was always a farmer, apparently a pretty good one, as by 1900 he owned 670 acres of land in Wise County, located just about where Lake Bridgeport is now, and he also owned another 320 acres not far away in Archer County.
Both Chesley and Amanda died in Wise County during the year 1901.--- Bio, prepared by Gary Duke.

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