Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Scarbrough, A. BG. January 19 1838 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    A. B. SCARBROUGH, a leading farmer and citizen of Calhoun county, Ala., was
born January 19, 1838. His parents, Lemuel and Nancy P. (McCrae) Scarbrough,
were both natives of North Carolina, came to Alabama in 1837 and settled in
Rabbit Town valley, where they remained until the father's death, in 1851, at
the age of fifty-one years. Lemuel Scarbrough came to Alabama with but one negro
girl and about $800, with which he began life in the then wilds, among the
Indians, but by close economy and good management he was very prosperous, and at
one time he owned about 550 acres of fine lands in Cheekeleeke valley. A. B.
Scarbrough was raised on the farm, and what little education he has was obtained
between crop times, in the old log school house, with but one door, one log cut
out to give light, a plank put on pins which were driven in a log, and a stick
and mud chimney. After his school days were over he took charge of the farm,
which he conducted until 1862, when he enlisted in company A, Thirty-first
Alabama regiment, under Capt. Elijah Thompson, and served until the surrender of
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, with whom he fought through all his campaigns. After
the war he returned to the farm, and has since then devoted himself to that
vocation, except six years that he was engaged in mercantile business at
Choccolocco. In 1874, he married Miss Hattie Weaver, daughter of Lindsay and
Lucy (Pace) Weaver. They were early settlers also in Calhoun county. Of the six
children born to this union, four are still living; Lindsey, Abby, Lucy and
Anna. The mother was born and reared in Calhoun county. Mr. Scarbrough is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, while Mrs. Scarbrough is a member of
the Baptist church. Mr. Scarbrough also served as justice of the peace one term
in his beat. He is now engaged in. farming and in the ginning business. He is
one of the substantial citizens of the county, and a man that stands very high
in the community where he lives.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 616-617

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