Sarah Anabella Scruggs

1826 - 1913  (87 years)

• Name	Sarah Anabella Scruggs  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	16 Jan 1826	Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	15 Dec 1913	Texas   [2, 3]
  Burial	Harvey Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas   [2, 3]
  Notes	The State of TEXAS, County of Sabine Statement of Mrs. Sarah A. Harvey, made at her home in Sabine County, TEXAS on the 24 day of Jan.A. D. 1913. My name is Sarah A. Harvey. I was born on the 16th day of January A.D. 1826, near the town of Florence, in the State of Alabama. I am the daughter of Jesse T.Scruggs and Susan Thornton Scruggs. My father and mother moved from the State of Alabama, to Sabine County, Texas, about the year 1836, and settled when we first came to Texas, near Milam, and resided there about one year. We then moved to Hamilton on the Sabine River, and lived there not quite one year, and moved fron there and settled on the McAdams tract or land in Sabine county, and lived there a great many years. I was married while living on that tract of land to Robert Harvey on August, 10th 1854, and after my marriage; my husband and I moved to the place I now reside on, where I have lived ever since then, and this place I now reside is about two and one half miles from the John McAdams tract of land. I knew Lawrence McGuire and his family for many years. When my father and mother came to Texas about 1836, Lawrence McGuire, and his family came with them, and all settled in Sabine County. Hambleton McGuire, so I was told by Lawrence McGuire, came to Texas about one year before we did, and we found him in Sabine County when we arrived there. Lawrence McGuire's family when we moved to Texas consisted of his wife, a son named Hambleton B. McGuire, and two daughters: one named Mary, the other named Arabella. Lawrence McGuire was married one time, and by his said wife he had the above children. My mother was Susan Thornton Scruggs, died after we came to Texas, and my father, Jesse T.Scruggs, married Mary McGuire one of the two sisters of Hambleton McGuire. My husband, Robert Harvey, had been married once before I married him, and his first wife was Arabella McGuire, a sister of Hambleton McGuire, and a daughter of Lawrence McGuire, as above stated. Lawrence McGuire died in Sabine County, Texas, about year A.D. 1855, and he was buried in the McGuire burial ground on the John McAdams survey in Sabine County.; his first wife died prior to his death, and is buried in the same burial ground near him. At the time of his death, Lawrence McGurie left surviving him; his son, Hambleton B. NcGuire, who was a practicing physician; and his daughter Mary McGuire, who married my father; and the children of Arabella, who was my husbands first wife, who was the daughter of Lawrence McGuire as above stated. Hy husband, Robert Harvey, as the guardian of his children by Arabella McGuire, his first wife. Lawrence McGuire, at the time of his death was the Owner of a one-half interest in a tract of about twelve hundred and eighty acres (128O), a part of the John McAdams survey, in Sabine County, which he purchased, together with his son, Hambleton McGuire; from John McAdams about the year 1848. He also owned some negroes, and had some money. After his death, a division was made of his estate among his heirs, and Hambleton McGuire was given as his part of the estate the interest owned by Lawrence McGuire in the John McAdams survey in Sabine County, Texas; Mary Scruggs, nee McGuire, my step-mother, received two negroes as her portion of the estate, and the children of Arabella Harvey, nee McGuire, received cash as their portion of the estate, and this money was paid to my husband Robert Harvey, who was guardian of said children, and their father. Hambleton McGuire after he received as his portion of the estate owned by his father in the John McAdams survey, sold the land about the year 1861 to J. H. Burroughs. Hambleton B. McGuire was frequently at our house, and was there just prior to the time he sold his land to J.M. Burroughs, and was talking with my father, and he stated to him that he was going to sell the land to said Burroughs. He was there a short while after this, and stated that he had sold all the John McAdams survey to J. M. Borroughs, and that he had also sold said Borroughs a Negro woman named Hannah. J. M. Burroughs at that time was living on a tract of land adjoining the John McAdams survey, and after the purchase of the John McAdams tract from Hambleton McGuire, as stated above, he cultivated a large portion of the said McAdams survey, and had it cultivated for about forty years, and at all times claimed it as his own. J.M. Burroughs was an attorney at law, and Was ummarried. This statement is made in the prescence of T. G. Minton, who signs my name hereto at my request for the reason that on account of extreme age, 1 am unable to write, and also in the presence of Docia Harvey, wife of Perkins Harvey, and in the presence of W.C.Ramsey. Witness my hand at home, on this day 24th of June A.D. 1913. (signed) Sarah A. Harvey Sworn to and SUbSCribed before me at the home of Sarah A. Harvey in Sabine County, Texas on this the 24th day of January, A.D. 1913. T.G. Minton, J.P. TX official Notary Public in and for Sabine Co., Texas (LS) Docia Harvey W.C. Ramsey Filed for record Jan.27, 1913 Recorded in Deed Book no. 5, at pages 678 and 679. (Sent via email by Irene Walton on 23 March 2006. Irene's email address at the time was: walt@netdot.com. The email attachment was a word document titled BOBBYEMC@earthlink.net)
  Person ID	I1226	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Jesse Thomas Scruggs, Sr.,   b. 1 Feb 1799, Virginia d. 16 Nov 1882, Sabine County, Texas (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Susan A. Thornton,   b. Bef 1805   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Bef 1825  [1]
  Family ID	F850	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert S. Harvey,   b. Abt 1826, North Carolina d. 16 Aug 1882 (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	10 Aug 1854	Sabine County, Texas   [5]
  Children	1. Jesse Harvey,   b. Abt 1856   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Susan A. Harvey,   b. 2 Aug 1848, Sabine County, Texas d. 27 Sep 1937, Zwolle, Sabine Parish, Louisiana (Age 89 years)   3. Sarah Harvey,   b. Abt Nov 1859   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Lucy J. Harvey,   b. 25 Mar 1866   d. 9 Nov 1933, Texas (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F846	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 16 Jan 1826 - Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama Marriage - 10 Aug 1854 - Sabine County, Texas Death - 15 Dec 1913 - Texas  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S485] Walton, Irene Email Transcription of Affadavit of Sarah A. HARVEY dated 24 Jan 1913. [S1207] McCary, Mackie & Kay "Harvey Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/. [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.), # 64877058 (Reliability: 3). [S339] Betts, Leatha A--Family Researcher (jlabetts@burgoyne.com) 777 West 1000 South Woods Cross, UT 84087, (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=leathaabetts). [S434] Toole, Blanche "Sabine County Marriages 1875-1900 1900-1910 Prior to 1875" c. 1983.