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EAST TEXAS FAMILY RECORDS VOL.14, NO.3, FALL 1990
ANDERSON COUNTY - Pioneer Families
By Estelle Corder
LaRue, Texas
In the Brushy Creek Communityis one of the earlier churches of Christ in
East Texas. While proof of the beginning of the church at Brushy Creek is not
know, we know the church was meeting or began to meet early 1850, when Silas
Scarbrough's family moved into the country from Union County, Arkansas.
In the book, GOSPEL PREACHERS WHO BLAZED THE TRAIL, is a write-up on Silas
Scarbrough. "Silas Scarbrough was born in Arkansas, November 10, 1829, Obeyed
the Gospel at the age of sixteen. At the age of twenty he married Miss F. A.
Blackshear. To them five children were born - one now living (in 1911).
At the age of twenty-one he moved to Anderson County, Texas. In 1850, he
moved to what is now Hood County, Texas. His first wife died in 1859. The day
Texas seceded from the Union, he married Mrs. M. D. Heart. To them five children
were born."
The children of Silas Scarborough and Frances Algelina (Blackshear) Scarborough
were: (1) L. W. Scarborough, born 7 August 1851 in Anderson County and
died, 6 November 1853 in Anderson County, Texas. (2) Victoria Texas Scarborough,
born 28 December 1852 in Anderson County, Texas and died g26 February 1875. (3)
Louella C. Scarborough, born 15 December 1854, married 7 July 1871 to ?
Hightower, and moved to Seattle, Washington. (4) Sarah F. Scarborough, born 5
August 1857 in Anderson County, Texas, married in August 1872 to ? Eaker.
(5) John Franklin Scarborough, born 10 December 1859 in Hood County, Texas,
married 14 December 1884 to Miss Mary Amazona Perry. (Daughter of Doc Cornelius
and Izabel Jane Abercrombie Perry.)
The children of John Franklin and Mary Amazona Scarborough were (1) William
Calvin Scarborough, born 1886 in Hood County, Texas; (2) Thomas Daniel Scarborough,
born 1888 in Hood County; (3) Ollie, born 1890 and died 1891; (4)
Mayme Scarborough, born 1892 in Quannah, Hardeman County, Texas; (5) John
Franklin Scarborough, born 1894 in Quannah; (6) Walter, born 1896 in Quannah,
Texas; (7) Agnes, born 1898; and L. A. (Dick) Scarborough born 1900.
Silas Scarborough's children by his second marriage to Mrs. Mary Heart were:
(1) King, (2) Jim, (3) Paschael, (4) Ida, and (5) Bessie.
At the time of his death in 1921 in Mineral Wells, Texas, Silas Scarborough,
has preached the gospel for over seventy years.
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East Texas Genealogical Society. East Texas Family Records, Volume 14, Number 3, Fall 1990, periodical, Autumn 1990; Tyler, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38016/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting East Texas Genealogical Society.