Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James Scroggs




Husband James Scroggs 1

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           Died: Abt 1861-1865
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         Father: John Scroggs (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Jane Paxton (      -      ) 2





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General Notes: Husband - James Scroggs


Having enlisted for service in the Civil War, he was killed in action at the battle of Manassas, or Bull Run.

He was an accomplished engineer and machinist. He was a young man of great physical strength and agility. He was called by his comrades "Bunt" because of his short and thick body. He was in command of a battery of light artillery at the time he met a soldier's death at the battle of Manassas.

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Sources


1 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 47.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 43.


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