Brooks-Bulloch-Emanuel County GaArchives Biographies.....Scarborough, James Madison 1856 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 869-870

   JAMES MADISON SCARBOROUGH. An active factor in the development of the
agricultural resources of Brooks county, James Madison Scarborough has been
industriously engaged in his useful vocation in the Morven district many years,
by means of his ability and practical experience having become familiar with
this branch of industry. A son of James Scarborough, he was born June 14, 1856,
in Emanuel county. He is of pioneer stock, his grandparents having come from
North Carolina to Georgia at an early day. They settled first in Bulloch county,
from there moving to Emanuel county, where they spent their closing years.
   Born and reared in Bulloch county, James Scarborough seized every opportunity
to acquire an education, and being a diligent student acquired sufficient
knowledge while young to begin life for himself as a teacher. He was also a
natural mechanic, especially skilled as a wood worker, and in his leisure hours
used to make chairs, spinning wheels, and other needed household articles.
Industrious and thrifty, he accumulated some money, and made frequent
investments in land, becoming owner of large tracts, which he devoted to farming
and stock-raising. Disposing of all his Georgia property soon after the close of
the Civil war, he bought land in Columbia county, Florida, where he lived and
labored for nine years. Coming back to Georgia he purchased a farm in Colquitt
county, seven miles from Moultrie, and continued his agricultural work a few
years. Selling out then, he bought another piece of land in the same county, and
on the farm which he improved resided until his death, at the age of
seventy-four years. He married Elizabeth Lanier, who was born in Emanuel county,
Georgia. She died at the age of forty-eight years, leaving a large family of
children, as follows: Susan, Allen, Mary, Elizabeth, Miles, Nancy, James
Madison, and Missouri and Mazelle, twins.

Acquiring a good common school education in Georgia and Florida, James Madison
Scarborough began when quite young to assist his father in the work incidental
to life on a farm, remaining with his parents until twenty years of age.
Accepting then a position as superintendent of a large plantation in Brooks
county, lie retained it for five years, managing it in a most satisfactory
manner, the laud yielding abundant harvests under his care. Mr. Scarborough then
purchased his present farm of two hundred or more acres, it being finely located
in lot number 329, Morven district, and as a farmer he has since met with
characteristic success.

   Mr. Scarborough married, in November, 1881, Catherine Morrison, who was born
in Morven district, a daughter of Angus and Louisa (Pike) Morrison, of whom a
brief sketch is given elsewhere in this volume. Two children have been born of
their marriage, namely: Clara, living with her parents; and Lubie, wife of Frank
Devane. Mr. Scarborough is not a politician in any sense implied by the term,
but for twenty years he has served as justice of the peace. Fraternally he
belongs to Morven lodge, F. & A. M. Mr. and Mrs. Scarborough are both valued
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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