Carter Tarrent Scroggin (1796 - 1859)

Born 3 Jan 1796 in , Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Phoebe (Shelby) Scroggin — married 18 Mar 1818 in Pope County, Illinois

Descendants

Died 23 Apr 1859 at age 63 in Mount Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois

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Biography

Carter Tarrent Scroggin was born in Kentucky, in 1796. When he came with his parents to the "Territory of Illinois" it contained less than 15,000 white inhabitants. His father, Humprhey Scroggin, was a native of North Carolina and married Sarah Kirby, a native of Virginia. His father enlisted at the age of seventeen and served in the Continental Army, during the American Revolutionary War.

In Gallatin county, Carter met and married Phebe Shelby, a native of North Carolina, who had come to Illinois with her father, Jacob Shelby. In the year 1827, Carter and Phebe came to what is now Logan county, Illinois (Logan County was created 15 February 1839, from Sangamon County). They staked out a claim in the Lake Fork timber, about four miles south of the present site of Mount Pulaski, and built an unhewn log cabin, with a puncheon floor. In the fall preceding "the deep snow," in 1830-31, Carter built a comfortable hewed log house on the same site. Carter and Phebe were the parents of ten children: ^[1]

• Leonard Kirby Scroggin, born January 25, 1819, died August 19, 1916, married 1) Lavina Buckles and 2) Rhoda Alice Girtman

• Mary Ann Scroggin, born November 27, 1820, died October 29, 1891, married William Rial Buckles

• Russell Shelby Scroggin, born 1823, died 1914, married Elizabeth Lucas

• Humphrey Scroggin

• Esther Jane Scroggin, born February 29, 1828, died December 16, 1904, married John Andrew Buckles

• Sarah E. Scroggin, married John H. Lucas

• Carter T. Scroggin

• Pleasant Marion Scroggin, born January 27, 1833, died April 18, 1894, in Sheridan, Yammill county, Oregon, married Sarah Elizabeth Howard

• Thomas J. Scroggin, born August 13, 1837, died January 20, 1911, married 1) Rebecca Birks and 2) Harriett N. Landis

• Ellen Caroline Scroggin, born July 29, 1841, died August 1, 1927, married Caleb Kelsey Lucas

Carter Tarrant Scroggin died April 23, 1859, at the age of 64 and is buried in the Steenbergen Cemetery, in Mount Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ History of Logan County, Illinois: A Record of Its Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, by Lawrence Beaumont Stringer, Pioneer Publishing Company, 1911 Volume 1, page 79
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14648911/carter-tarrant-scroggin

• And She Held Forth Her Hand, by Emagene Veech Green, Published by Miller Typesetting Service, Decatur, Illinois, 1961

Acknowledgments

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