Scoggins, the father of Bob Scoggins and Mrs. C. E. Horton was a farmer
near Jonesboro, and a very good
man and citizen. That he was popular, and not kin to the Scoggins who was
John L. Spurlin’s step-mother. The latter had been sheriff or very
popular in Falls County, but went downgrade, drinking, and that he was a
sort of dead beat here.