Athens Weekly Review
Sept. 3, 1925
J. R. Scruggs
Henderson County is not more appreciative of her native son than
she is
of those citizens of other sections who choose to cast their lots
here
and who so take their positions in the body politic as to leaven
it with
the characteristics of good citizenship that make for the
upbuilding of
the country. Of such citizens there are many among us, not
the least
significant in this number is J. R. Scruggs, of the Baxter
Community, who
was born April 22, in Warren county, Georgia, and who moved to
Bell
county, Texas, in 1900 and who lived successively in Grayson,
Hopkins and
Johnson counties, over a period of 17 years, having farming for
his
occupation. He came to Henderson county in 1918, purchased
the John D.
Knight farm in Baxter community which he still owns and which he
farmed
for three years prior to his entering the mercantile business he
is now
conducting as "The Baxter Trading Co."
Mr. Scruggs attended rural and village schools in his native
State, and
grew to manhood on his father's farm. He spent 21 years
first as clerk
in a store and later as railroad agent and operator for the
Georgia
railroad, before coming to Texas. He was married September
2, 1883, to
Miss Mollie T. Brown, and has six sons and two daughters.
One of his
sons served for more than a year with the army in France.
Where ever he
has lived he entered into the social, religious, educational and
political activities of his home community, serving in the
capacity of
trustee, Justice of the Peace, steward in the church and
superintendent
of the Sunday school and such other functions necessary to the
community
that require service to be performed without pecuniary
reward. He joined
the Methodist church when only twelve years old and believes in
the
Bible religion as taught him at his mother's knee and practices
it every
day toward his fellowman. Reserving to himself the
inalienable right to
his own opinions, he is tolerant of the same rights of
others. In the
seven years he has lived in the Baxter community, he has been a
dominant
figure in making it one of the most progressive rural communities
in the
county. Through his services in helping to work out
marketing problems
for products of the farm he has rendered a service to his
community and
county, that will live to keep him dear in the hearts and
memories of his
neighbors who respect and love him.
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