I am searching for the parents of Ephraim Scruggs. From the 1870 census I know his birth year was about 1840. He listed both of his parents as born in Georgia, but I'm not too sure of this since it was before the Land Lottery. (Unless one or both of his parents were Cherokee?) In 1870 he and his wife and children lived in Pickens County (Dug Road District), Georgia.

He married Tabitha Evans sometime before 1863. Their known children are a daughter born about 1858, a son John born between 1859 and 1860 and a daughter, Martha Ann born November 01, 1861. Martha Ann Scruggs was my g-g-grandmother. (She married Barney Adams and had three daughters before dying young -- buried Yellow Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Pickens County.)

Ephraim died sometime between the 1870 and 1880 census. By the time of the 1880 census, Tabitha and her two youngest children, John and Martha Ann, were living in Dawson County (Yellow Creek District) with her father, John Evans, two sisters, and her mother-in-law Mahaly (Mahala?) Scruggs age 60 (born about 1800?),

A Meardy (Meredith?) and Mahala Scruggs lived in Forsyth County, Georgia in the 1840s. They were charter members of Friendship Baptist Church. I have not found a list of their children, but wonder if Ephraim was their son?