Here is his genealogical pedigree:
1 James C. Scaggs, a Revolutionary War veteran from South Carolina who later moved to Tennessee
1 James C. Scaggs, a Revolutionary War veteran from South Carolina who later moved to Tennessee
2 Moses Scaggs
3 Louis Scaggs
4 Greer J. Scaggs m. Annie Tramwell
5 Edgar Greer Scaggs married Doris Hodges
6 Royce Gifford Scaggs
7 William Royce Scaggs ("Boz")
There is uncertainty about who were the parents of James C. Scaggs. Some think his father was the James Scaggs who married a Susanna and lived in Virginia, Tennessee and died in Kentucky about 1814. Others believe his father was a Charles Scaggs, brother of the above James, who lived in South Carolina, Tennessee and the illegal Simms Settlement in Mississippi who died about 1811.
There is uncertainty about who were the parents of James C. Scaggs. Some think his father was the James Scaggs who married a Susanna and lived in Virginia, Tennessee and died in Kentucky about 1814. Others believe his father was a Charles Scaggs, brother of the above James, who lived in South Carolina, Tennessee and the illegal Simms Settlement in Mississippi who died about 1811.
UPDATE: The Skaggs DNA Project has demonstrated that James C Scaggs was son of Charles Scaggs and belongs to the Safeway Skaggs family group.
I am beginning to think that Charles Scaggs was the father of James C. James C mentioned in his pension application that he visited his father's house while serving in the militia in South Carolina. The 1790 South Carolina census has some evidence of a Charles Scaggs in Spartanburg County when you take into account spelling mistakes by census takers and/or record transcribers:
ReplyDeleteJames Seages, page 87, column 3, line 33, 1 male 16+, 1 female
Charles Sages, page 87, column 3, line 41, 3 males 16+, 2 males 0-15, 1 female