Biography of Wiley S. Scroggin - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 105

Wiley S. Scroggin, the subject of this sketch, owes his nativity to
the State of Mississippi, but was brought to Conway County, Arkansas,
when a child of six years of age by his parents, who were among the
earliest settlers here. He was born April 8, 1833, and his parents,
Henson and Malinda (Carpenter) Scroggin, were natives of Georgia and
Mississippi respectively. They were the parents of eleven children,
nine of whom grew to maturity, and seven are yet living. Mr.
Scroggin, Sr., was a farmer by occupation, and emigrated from
Mississippi to Arkansas in 1839. He settled in Conway County, where he
entered land. He was a man who took quite an active part in building
up schools, churches and society in those early days. He and wife were
members of the Christian Church. Mr. Scroggin died November 16, 1860,
and was followed to his eternal rest, twenty-seven years later, by his
faithful wife, who died March 6, 1887. The subject of this sketch
received a limited education at the common private schools of Conway
County, and at his majority began life for himself, by engaging in the
occupation of farming. In this he has been eminently successful, and
now owns a fine tract of land, of 280 acres, with 125 acres under a
high state of cultivation, which, equipped with stock and necessary
farming implements, will make it one of the most desirable places in
the northern part of the county. Mr. Scroggin has been twice married;
to his first union in 1859, were born nine children, who were named,
in order of birth, Dennis C., Sarah J., Malinda C., Martha E., Henson,
Matilda C., James M., Wiley A., (deceased), and Robert F. He lost his
wife by death, October 1878, and in 1879 he married his second and
present wife, who was a native of Tennessee. To this union have been
born two children, Minerva and William A. C. (deceased.) Mr. Scroggin
is socially a member of the Masonic Lodge at Cleveland, No. 473, while
he and wife hold membership and worship at the Christian Church.