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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  L. H. SCRUGGS was born in Madison County, Ala., in 1837 and is a son of Henry
F. and Sarah (Scruggs) Scruggs, both natives of Virginia. The ancestors of this
family came from Wales, and were among the very early settlers in Virginia.
Henry F. Scruggs came with his father to Madison County at an early date, and
settled on a plantation. He was a member of the bar in Madison County, and,
after moving to Sumter County, was Circuit Judge about 1844. He was a member of
the Legislature from Sumter for several years; moved to Morgan County and
practiced law there until his death. Five of his children are still living.

  L. H. Scruggs was reared and educated in Sumter and Madison Counties, and in
1861 he entered the Confederate Army as a private in Company I, Fourth Alabama
Infantry. He spent four years in the Army of Virginia, and was in all the
battles except that of the Wilderness. He was also engaged at Chickamauga, in
the Seven Days' Fight before Richmond, Antietam and Farmersville. He was wounded
four times. When the war closed he was lieutenant-colonel of his regiment, and
commanded it after the battle of Antietam. He surrendered with General Lee at
Appomattox.

  After the war he entered the cotton trade at Huntsville, and followed it there
until the fall of 1887. Mr. Scruggs is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight of Pythias,
a Knight of Honor, and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workingmen.
  Mr. Scruggs was married in 1871, to Miss Emma Cooley, of Nashville. They have
five children, and are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

  Mr. Scruggs is a member of the firm of Murray, Scruggs & Co., real estate,
stock and bond brokers, in Decatur.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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