Coryell Co. TX - Bird Pierce and Sarah Scoggin

Submitted by Bobbie Ross  <bwross@htcomp.net>

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                       BIRD PIERCE AND SARAH SCOGGIN
                                      
    Bird Pierce was born in Tennessee in 1836. He came to Texas with his mother
    Sabina and brother Young Pierce. He is listed on the first Coryell County
    Tax Roll compiled in 1854. In September 1855 Bird married Sarah Scoggin,
    daughter of Jesse Scoggin. Jesse had moved to Sugar Loaf from Izard County
    Arkansas in the early 1850's and he and Bird and Jesse's son Isaac were
    involved in several land transactions. Bird Pierce, Jesse and Isaac Scoggin
    lived as close neighbors about two miles northwest of Sugar Loaf mountain
    on the Cowhouse. This area later was known as Pottersville where there was
    a bridge crossing the Cowhouse. The Scoggin homestead became known as "Fort
    Scoggin" and a place for the community to gather during Indian raids. Bird
    and Sarah had three children - Mary Eldora, born 15 October 1856, Sabina,
    born 1859 and Frances born 1860/61. On May 20, 1862 Bird enlisted in
    Company D 17th Texas Volunteer Infantry also known as Allen's Regiment. He
    became sick in December of tyhoid and pneumonia at Camp Nelson in Prairie
    County Arkansas. In January 1863 he was sent to the Pine Bluff Hospital
    where he died from pneumonia on March 3, 1863. In February 1867 Sarah
    married a man that, as unlikely as it seems, was also named Bird. Bird
    Clements returned from the Civil War and after he and Sarah were married,
    moved the family to Taylor's Branch in Bell County near Sparta where Bird
    had pre-empted 160 acres. Bird was a teacher at the Sparta School the
    Pierce girls attended. In early 1870 Bird and Sarah became dissatisfied
    with the land and with a single yoke oxen wagon pulled by two steers moved
    to Cass County. James Clements, Bird's father, had moved from Cass County
    to Sugar Loaf about 1850. In Cass County Mary Eldora Pierce married Lewis
    Carlile in 1872 and they had seven children. Frances married Wiley H. Brown
    in 1874 and they had two children. Bird Clements died in Cass County in
    1881. When Lewis Carlile and Mary Eldora moved to Hood County Sarah went
    with them and lived with Lewis the rest of her life. Sarah died in 1901 and
    is buried at Bronte, Texas. By Eldon Pierce who states "Bird Pierce was my
    great uncle, Young Pierce is my great grandfather and Young Pierce, Jr. was
    my grandfather." 

                                      
              Copyrighted Eldon Pierce & Bobbie Ross Sep. 2000