Biographical Sketch of C. M. Scruggs, Johnson County, Missouri,
Montserrat Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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C. M. Scruggs, son of one of the most intellectual of the pioneers of
Johnson county, the capable merchant and efficient postmaster of Mont-
serrat, Missouri, was born October 3, 1865, in Johnson county, Missouri
son of Rev. A. F. and Mrs. Scruggs, who came to Johnson county in 1859.
Reverend Scruggs was reared on a plantation in Virginia, located within
eighteen miles of Nashville, Tennessee.  In early manhood, Reverend 
A. F. Scruggs entered the ministry and the remainder of his life was
spent in doing good, in following the Christian precepts himself and in
leading hundreds of others to do likewise.  When he began preaching, he
was a missionary, working among the Cherokee Indians of Tennessee.  At
first, he taught the red men with the assistance of an interpreter but
in a short time he learned their native language and spoke directly to
them.  He was a member of the church conference in Tennessee and by the
conference was sent as missionary.  For his services he received one 
hundred dollars annually and barrels of clothing and provisions were 
frequently sent him by the church.  It was barely a living wage but 
Reverend Scruggs was not engaged in church work for the purpose of 
obtaining wealth.  He was endangered by the plagues of yellow fever and
cholera, which swept the South, but through all passed in safety.  In
1849, Rev. Scruggs was one of the committee of leading citizens of May-
ville, Tennessee, who were appointed to meet General Zachary Taylor as
he came by boat up the river from Louisiana on his way to Washington,
D. C., where in a few days he was to be inaugurated President of the
United States, a position he was destined to fill but one brief year 
and four months.  Mrs. Scruggs was born in Ohio.  She was married to
Reverend Scruggs in 1856 and to them were born three children: C. M.,
of this review; Doctor Scruggs, who died in Johnson county in 1898; and
Mrs. J. H. Rothwell, Knob Noster, Missouri.  After a long life of near-
ly one hundred years, Reverend Scruggs died September 7, 1902.  He had
labored long and patiently for Christ in Tennessee, Alabama and Miss-
ouri, and he has for his services been rewarded by One who never 
measures the worth of a man in silver or gold.  In 1907, he was joined
in death by his noble and faithful wife.  On a farm in Grover township,
C. M. Scruggs was reared to maturity.  In 1884, he started in business
for himself in the town of Montserrat, where he worked at several 
different occupations, working as clerk at one time and in some other
position at another time, until 1903, when he left Missouri and went to
Colorado.  In Colorado, Mr. Scruggs was employed by a mining company as
manager of their company store and coal business.  He returned to John-
son county in 1905 and opened a general mercantile establishment in 
Montserrat, where he has ever since been located.  Mr. Scruggs has a
fine stock of goods valued at two thousand dollars.  He enjoys an 
excellent patronage, for his name is bond for honest, honorable, up-
right dealings.  In April, 1913, C. M. Scruggs was appointed postmaster
of Montserrat and on June 17, following, he assumed the duties of that
office.  In June, 1901, C. M. Scruggs was united in marriage with Betty
Chatten, of Johnson county.  To Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs have been born six
children: Beryl, Bernice, Glen, Meda, Gordon and Clarence.  The Scruggs
family have long been prominent and highly respected in Johnson county,
the members of which are all excellent and industrious citizens, worthy
of the name they bear. 

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