M. R. (Hawkins) Scruggs
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Marucca R. (Hawkins) Scruggs (1862 - 1940)

Marucca [uncertain] R. (M. R.) "Marie, Marausey, Marucy" [uncertain] Scruggs formerly Hawkins aka Sherrill
Born in Georgia, United Statesmap
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Wife of — married 10 Jan 1884 in Ellis, Texas, United Statesmap
Wife of — married about 1899 in Hall, Texas, United Statesmap
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Died at age 78 in Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico, United Statesmap
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Biography

Marucy R. Hawkins Biographical Sketch

Marucy was born on the 19th of March 1862 in Lafayette, Walker county, Georgia[1]. Her given name has appeared in various documents as Marucy, Marcie, Mar, M. R., Marussey, Maruca and others. The predominant and most likely variant is Marucy, which will be assumed, here forth, to be the correct spelling. It is also the variant which appeared in documents that she herself may have signed. It is possible that the original name may have been Maruca, a name of Spanish derivation meaning “of the sea”, making Marucy a diminutive or nickname. Her middle name has never been determined, but family lore has deemed it as something more peculiar and unusual than Marucy. She generally just went by her initials, M. R. The parents who saddled her with such odd monikers were Leander N. Hawkins and Louisa Prudence Mathis[2]. Marucy was their first child. She was followed by five siblings, all of whom were given more prosaic names. Her siblings, in order of birth, were the following:

Wilson Andrew Hawkins. Wilson was born 10 September 1864, probably in Walker County, Georgia[3]. He married Mattie Frances Godfrey 8 December 1890 in Clay County, Texas[4] and they had six children between 1891 and 1907. Wilson died 1 February 1924 at the age of 59 in Hamlin, Jones County, Texas[5].
Robert Franklin Hawkins. was born in October of 1868 in Walker County, Georgia[6]. He married Margaret Ann Eliff 27 October 1894 in Clay County, Texas[7]. They had six children between 1896 and 1915, all born in Texas. Robert died 6 August 1952 at the age of 83 in Potter County, Texas.
Amanda S. Hawkins. Amanda was born 15 September 1870 in Walker County, Georgia[8]. She married B. M. Leuelling 17 December 1889 in Clay County, Texas and they had one son, Ethridge Louis, who died in a tornado in 1889[9]. Amanda died 17 May 1892 at the young age of 22.
Bettie Lee Hawkins. Bettie was born 2 July 1873 in Walker County, Georgia[10]. She married Charlie J. Morris[11] and they had two sons. Bettie died in Collingsworth County, Texas 23 February 1913 at the age of 39 and is buried ion the Fairview Cemetery in Memphis, Hall County, Texas[12].
Alonzo Decatur Hawkins. Alonzo was born 22 Nov 1876[13] in Texola, Beckham County, Oklahoma, the last of Marucy’s siblings. He married Pearl Ann McIntush in 18 Aug 1902 in Collingsworth County, Texas[14] and they had six children between 1903 and 1913. Alonzo died 16 November 1933 at the age of 55 in Amasas Pass, San Patricio County, Texas[15].

In July of 1870, when the census was conducted, Marucy’s family was living in Subdivision 128, served by the Fricks Gap post office[16]. Fricks Gap is located about 10 miles northwest of Lafayette and about 10 miles southwest of Chickamauga in Walker County, Georgia. In that census, she was listed as Marruca Hawkins. Marucy is said to have been told by her mother, Louisa, that the family could hear the cannon fire from the Battle of Chickamauga which occurred in September of 1862 when Marucy was just six months old[17].

The early years of Marucy’s youth were spent in the region of McLemore Cove, Walker County, Georgia. She apparently attended school there as she was able to read and write. Her family moved out of Walker County Georgia around 1875 and her brother Alonzo D. Hawkins was born in Texola, Beckham County, Oklahoma on 22 November 1876[18]. From there, the family moved on, first to Bowie in Clay County, Texas, and then to Midlothian in Ellis County, Texas where they were found in Precinct 7 in the 1880 census[19]. Marucy was recorded in that census as Marrusey.

Marucy met John Franklin Sherrill in Ellis County where they were both living. They were married in Ellis County, Texas on 10 January 1884[20]. Her name was listed as just M. R. in the marriage registry. John had previously married Catherine Jane Love 14 February 1877, also in Ellis County. John and Catherine had one child, a son named Chalmers, born 6 April 1878. Catherine was reported in the 1880 census as having consumption and died in Jun 1880, just a few days after the census. Chalmers remained with John and Marucy after their marriage.

According to the 1900 census, Marucy and John Sherrill had three children together between 1884 and his death in 1887 with only two still living in 1900[21]. The two who lived were their daughters, Grace Stella, born 21 January 1886, and Mary Frances, born 27 December 1887, both born most likely in Midlothian. There was an infant that was buried in the Midlothian City Cemetery that appears to be the third child of John and Marucy. Although there are no dates or name for the burial, circumstantially, the association seems most logical. John’s first wife is buried there in Plot O8, space 6. John is buried there in Plot O8, space 5 and the infant is buried there in Plot O8, space 9[22]. Also, there is a two-year gap between the marriage of John and Marucy and the birth of Grace, which leaves time for the birth of the unknown infant who was probably born in 1884 or 1885. A brief overview of Marucy’s girls follows.

Grace Stella Sherrill. Grace was born 21 January 1886 at Midlothian, Ellis County, Texas[23]. She married John Robert (Bob) Fisher 12 September 1910 in Memphis, Hall County, Texas[24]. Grace and Bob had three children between 1911 and his death in 1918 in White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico. After Bob’s death Grace homesteaded near Roswell, Chavez County, New Mexico near her mother and sister. Later she moved to Roswell and then to La Jolla, San Diego County, California for many years working as a seamstress. After retirement, she eventually moved back to Roswell where she died 30 December 1983 at the age of 97.
Mary Frances Sherrill. Mary was born 27 December 1887 in Midlothian, Ellis County, Texas[25]. She married Oscar David White in 1906[26] and moved near Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico where she had two daughters between 1907 and 1916. Mary died in Roswell in June of 1983[27] at the age of 95 six months before her older sister, Grace.

Marucy’s husband John Sherrill died 23 June 1887, just three and a half years after they were married. He left her a widow at the age of twenty-five, pregnant with their third child, Mary, one infant, Grace, and a nine-year-old boy, Chalmers, from John’s first marriage. Fortunately, Marucy had family support through this time with the presence of her mother, Louisa, and her sisters, Amanda and Bettie, who were also living in Ellis county at the time.

Marucy’s family members continued living in Ellis County through at least 1888 since her father appeared in the tax rolls there for the years 1881, 1882, 1883 and 1888[28]. By 1891, he appeared in the tax rolls of Clay County, Texas with ownership of 160 acres of land[29]. This suggests that the move from Ellis County to Clay County occurred between 1888 to 1891. Marucy’s father, Leander, died 18 January 1892 in Bowie, Clay County, Texas and was interred in the Liberty Cemetery[30]. It appears that Marucy and her two girls continued living in Clay County at least until 31 August 1898, when she married Isaac Goss Scruggs there[31]. They did not remain long in Clay County, moving on to Collingsworth County, Texas, near the town of Memphis in Hall County, Texas by the 1900 census[32]. According to the Texas County Tax Rolls, Isaac had land in Clay county as early as 1885 and as late as 1891[33]. He first appeared in the tax rolls of Collingsworth County in 1892[34].

Although the younger of the two girls, Mary was the first to marry. She married, about 1906, Oscar David White, probably in Memphis, Hall County, Texas[35]. They moved to Chaves County, New Mexico around 1908. Marucy and Isaac, along with daughter, Grace, were recorded in the 1910 census living in Collingsworth County, Texas near the town of Quail[36]. Grace’s marriage followed in 1910 to John Robert Fisher. They were also married in Memphis, Texas. They, like her sister and brother-in-law, moved to New Mexico about 1916, homesteading in Lincoln County near White Oaks.

Marucy’s second husband, Isaac, did not make it to the 1920 census, dying on 30 January 1919 in Memphis, Hall County, Texas of prostate cancer[37]. He is interred in the Fairview Cemetery at Memphis, Texas[38]. Marucy is recorded in the 1920 census in Roswell Ward 5, Chaves County, New Mexico in a house on East McGaffey, along with her daughter, Grace and Graces’s children.[39] Marucy was listed as Marie (probably sounded as MAR-ie) in that census. She apparently chose to move to New Mexico to be with her daughters after the death of Isaac.

In about 1922, Marucy filed for a homestead northeast of Roswell adjoining the homestead of her daughter, Grace, who had filed on her homestead in about 1919. Her other daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Oscar also had a homestead earlier near Marucy and Grace’s. Marucy proved up on the homestead and was awarded the 640 acres as Patents 996344[40] and 996345[41] on the 7th of April 1927. These Patents were assigned in the name Marucy R. Scruggs.

In the 1930 census of Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, Marucy was living at 407 West 1st Street with her daughter, Grace and her children[42]. She was listed in that census as just M. R. During this period, Marucy and Grace made many beautiful quilts together. Fine examples of quilting of the late 1800’s were made by them and were still in the families of Wilson Fisher and Bobbe Fisher Sterne, two of Grace’s children.

Marucy developed gangrene in one of her legs and had to have it amputated. She had an artificial leg to wear, but usually wore just a wooden peg leg around the house. She would only wear the artificial leg to church on Sundays.

The census of 1940 in Roswell, that recorded Marucy, was conducted on the 12th of April[43]. She and Grace were still living in a house at 407 West 1st Street in the census. Again, she went just by her initials, M. R., in the listing. Marucy did not make it through that year, dying on the 2nd of July 1940[44]. Her death certificate indicated that she died at home from an intestinal obstruction in which gangrene had set in, resulting from an old operation. Her body was shipped to Memphis, Texas for internment next to her husband Isaac in the Fairview Cemetery[45].


Photographic Memories

Marucy Hawkins Sherrill Scruggs ca 1918
Marucy (middle) with Elizabeth and Walter D. Fisher


Sources

  1. ↑ New Mexico Deaths, 1889-1945; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLYZ-48W; Marucy R. Scruggs; b. 19 Mar 1863; d. 2 Jul 1940; Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico
  2. ↑ 1870 United States Federal Census Record: Subdivision 128, Walker, Georgia; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC31-VHD; Leander Hawkins family
  3. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial; findagrave.com memorial # 65590743; W. A. Hawkins; b. 10 Sep 1864; d. 1 Feb 1924
  4. ↑ Clay County, Texas Marriages; Txgenweb.org; https://www.txgenwebcounties.com/clay/marriages/1887-1893.html; Amanda Hawkins and B. M. Lemelling (Leuelling) m. 17 Dec 1889; W. A. Hawkins and Mattie Godfrey m. 8 Dec 1890; R. F. Hawkins and Maggie Eliff m. 27 Oct 1894; Bettie Hawkins and Charlie Morris, m. 12 Dec 1897
  5. ↑ Ibid., findagrave.com memorial # 65590743; W. A. Hawkins
  6. ↑ Texas Deaths, 1890-1976; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3Z4-NQQ; Robert Franklin Hawkins; b. 18 Oct 1868; d. 6 Aug 1952; Anderson County
  7. ↑ Ibid., Clay County, Texas Marriages
  8. ↑ Liberty Cemetery, Clay County, Texas, www.cemeteries-of-texas.com/Wtx/cemetery/Liberty.htm, L. N. Hawkins, Manda S. Leuelling
  9. ↑ Ibid., Clay County, Texas Marriages
  10. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial; findagrave.com memorial # 46534461; Bettie Hawkins Morris; b. 2 Jul 1870; d. 23 Feb 1913
  11. ↑ Clay County, Texas Marriage Records, 1897-1900; https://www.txgenwebcounties.org/clay/marriages/1897-1900.html; Bettie Hawkins m Charlie Morris, 12 Dec 1897
  12. ↑ Ibid., findagrave.com memorial # 46534461
  13. ↑ World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZXM-26C; Lon Decatur Hawkins, b 22 Nov 1877; living in Dozier, Texas; wife Minnie L
  14. ↑ FamilySearch Person Information; https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDF2-1K8; Pearl Ann McIntush; b. 14 Aug 1880; m. 18 Aug 1902; d. 2 Feb 1915
  15. ↑ Texas Death Index, 1903-2000: Lon D. Hawkins, d. 16 Nov 1933; Minnie Hawkins, d. 20 Aug 1968
  16. ↑ 1870 United States Federal Census Record: Subdivision 128, Walker, Georgia; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC31-VHD; Leander Hawkins family
  17. ↑ Conversations with Wilson Fisher, a grandson of Marucy Hawkins Fisher
  18. ↑ Texas Deaths,1890-1976; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3CW-5JJ; Lon D. Hawkins; b. 22 Nov 1876; d. 16 Nov 1933
  19. ↑ 1880 United States Federal Census Record: Precinct 7, Ellis, Texas; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFN7-K85; Leander Hawkins family
  20. ↑ Texas County Marriage Index, 1837-1965; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV14-2VFQ; John F. Sherrill m. M. R. Hawkins; 10 Jan 1884, Waxahachie, Ellis County
  21. ↑ 1900 United States Federal Census Record: Justice Precinct 3, Collingsworth, Texas; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3L3-TRF; Isaac G. Scruggs family
  22. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial; findagrave.com memorial # 35322950; John Franklin Sherrill, b 4-16-1853, d 6-23-1887; Midlothian Cemetery, Ellis, Texas
  23. ↑ Grace S. Sherrill Fisher conversations.
  24. ↑ Marriage Certificate: Robert Fisher and Grace Sherrill; Marriage Certificate: Robert Fisher and Grace Sherrill; 12 Sep 1910
  25. ↑ Social Security Death Index: Mary White, b 27 Dec 1887, d Jun 1983, Roswell, Chaves, NM
  26. ↑ Grace S. Sherrill Fisher conversations
  27. ↑ Ibid., Social Security Death Index: Mary White
  28. ↑ Texas County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ8P-YQP3; L. N. Hawkins; 1881, 1882, 1883, 1888, Ellis county; 1-wagon, 7-horses, 50-cattle
  29. ↑ Texas County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ8G-5VWX; L. N. Hawkins, Clay county, 1891; 160 acres
  30. ↑ Liberty Cemetery, Clay County, Texas, www.cemeteries-of-texas.com/Wtx/cemetery/Liberty.htm, L. N. Hawkins, Manda S. Leuelling
  31. ↑ Texas County Marriage Index, 1837-1977; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL89-PQ2; M. R. Sherrill m. I, G, Scruggs; 31 Aug 1898, Clay county
  32. ↑ 1900 United States Federal Census Record: Justice Precinct 3, Collingsworth, Texas; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3L3-TRF; Isaac G. Scruggs family
  33. ↑ Texas County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ8G-5JFZ; I. G. Scruggs; 1891, Clay county
  34. ↑ Texas County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ8P-9GYP; I. G. Scruggs; 1892, Collingsworth county
  35. ↑ 1910 United States Federal Census Record: Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGSZ-R4H; Oscar D. White age 27 married to Mary F. White age 22
  36. ↑ 1910 United States Federal Census Record: Quail, Collingsworth, Texas; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2SZ-T25; Isaac Scruggs family
  37. ↑ Texas Deaths, 1890-1976; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K383-7YW; Isaac Goss Scruggs; 1847-1919
  38. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial; findagrave.com memorial # 46534686; M. R. Hawkins information about Isaac G. Scruggs
  39. ↑ 1920 United States Federal Census Record: Roswell Ward 5, Chaves, New Mexico; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4VL-KT4; Grace S. Fisher family and Marie R. Scruggs
  40. ↑ Elkins Ranching Patent is a 320-acre land patent in Chaves, New Mexico; https://thelandpatents.com/patents/nmlc--0026436#claim-actions; serial number NMLC 0026436; February 24, 1927; Marucy R Scruggs
  41. ↑ Elkins Ranching Patent is a 320-acre land patent in Chaves, New Mexico; https://thelandpatents.com/patents/nmlc--0026435; serial number NMLC 0026435; February 24, 1927; Marucy R Scruggs
  42. ↑ 1930 United States Federal Census Record: Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH1Y-LK8; M. R. Scrubs (Scruggs) family
  43. ↑ 1940 United States Federal Census Record: Ward 3, Roswell, Election Precinct 2 Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMRQ-9CF; Grace Fisher family and M. R. Scruggs; 407 West 1st Street
  44. ↑ New Mexico Deaths, 1889-1945; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLYZ-48W; Marucy R. Scruggs; d. 2 Jul 1940; Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico
  45. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial; findagrave.com memorial # 46534686; M. R. Hawkins Scruggs information




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