I wasn't offended. Your response is very gracious. I hope you will continue to interact because I need to run this down (which is why I posted it.) I fully understand that people make up stories about their ancestors. But this story has legs, and from different sources.
I don't know why, but Alabama, for some reason, created surname lists of many families in North Carolina. Perhaps it's because many North Carolinians migrated to Alabama, but that's just speculation on my part.
Here's the collection (you can view this without an ancestry account): https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61266/
Search for prominent North Carolinians. You will find many.
If you search for Scurlocks, you will find:
Mary to John Burns (1750-1760)
Bettie Frazier to an unknown spouse (10 Sep 1912)
Mary to Vincent Compton, Wilson County, TN (20 Sep 1832)
Search for Brantley, and you will find records dating back to the 1700's.
Search for Stallings, same thing.
Pick any NC family name.
I don't know the provenance of these records, and it's something I've been meaning to follow up on, but they are official state records.
This is the official statement regarding the records. "Staff members at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) started compiling these records on Alabamians in 1901. They include a variety of items and record types arranged by surname: newspaper clippings, obituaries, local and family histories, donated family research and records, extracts from censuses, research requests made to the archives, and other items.
While ADAH staff began collecting and assembling these records in 1901, names of people included can predate this year."
Despite the fact that it clearly states the records are regarding Alabamians, there are people in those records, like John Burns, who never (AFAIK) set foot in Alabama, but their descendants did.