SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

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Thomas W. Scroggin, another esteemed citizen and industrious farmer of Lick Mountain Township, was born in what is now Nichols Township, in 1856. His parents were John and Mary M. (Inglehight) Scroggin. Mr. Scroggin was born in Mississippi about seventy-one years ago, and when a young man came to Conway County, where he was married about 1856. Here he spent his remaining years, dying in 1866. He was a farmer by occupation, and a man who was well-liked and well known. Mrs. Scroggin is now living with her youngest son at Hackett City, and is the mother of nine children, six of whom are living, viz: T. W. (our subject), Jane, the wife of Hugh Sewell, of the Indian Territory, Adeline, Sarah S., now Mrs. Columbus Floyd, of Hackett City, Julia A., wife of Thomas Burnett, of the Indian Territory, and Frank, of Hackett City. T. W. was reared a farmer boy with a very limited country school education, as the early demise of his father threw the main support of the family on his shoulders. In 1875 Mr. Scroggin married Miss Rosana Reed, who was born in 1859. Her parents were James and Anna Reed. Mr. Scroggin has four sons. He farmed as a tenant till 1881, then purchased his present farm, which had about twelve acres cleared. He now has a good farm, in a beautiful locality, two miles northwest of Centre Ridge. Politically, Mr. Scroggin is a Republican. He and wife are consistent members of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Scroggin's mother died in 1875.