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Samuel G. Scruggs is a son of Hopwood D. and Eliza E. (Sands) Scruggs, who were born in Tennessee and North Carolina, in 1820 and 1816 respectively. The mother was brought by her parents to Wilson County, Tenn., when a child. Here she afterward met Mr. Scruggs and married him. Their farm consisted of 315 acres, and the father was a Whig and was captain of the militia in early times. He died in 1857. His widow and six children continued to reside on the home farm, and after the war broke out, many of the men, to whom she had loaned money, became bankrupt; thus her children were deprived of their legacy. She was in feeble health at the time, and her troubles unsettled her mind and it was found necessary to place her in an asylum. She yet lives and is seventy years of age. She was a woman of great business tact and ability and of fine intellectual powers. Our subject inherits Dutch blood from his father, and English blood from his mother. He was born in Wilson County, July 19, 1845, and received ordinary educational advantages. At the age of sixteen he joined Company B, Forty-fifth Tennessee Confederate Infantry, and during two years’ faithful service was not wounded nor taken prisoner. After his return home he began farming, and in 1864 married Anna E. Allen, who was born in Wilson County, on the 27th of February, 1848. To them were born six children. Mr. Scruggs, his wife and four children are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he is a Democrat. He came to Gibson County in 1873, and now owns 167 acres of good land, and although he has resided but thirteen years in the county he is considered one of its first citizens.