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Note: PER 1900 CENSUS, LIVED IN WHITE COUNTY, HARRISON TWP, AR, AGE 20 AND LIVING ALONE. WAS BORN IN AUG 1880 IN MO.
PER 1910 CENSUS, LIVED IN INDEP. CO, FAIRVIEW TWP, AR, AGE 31. WAS WITH WIFE NANCY J.-22, LOLA A.-5 AND LULIE A. 9/12. Was a Farmer.
Mortgaged land on Feb 7, 1910 Listed wife Nancy and his middle initial A.
Per Article in the Batesville Guard in May of 1994: "60 years ago - - - - B.A. Scroggins, 55, who was recently sentenced to the Arkansas penitentiary for life by Judge Marcus Bone after a jury found him guilty of murder, was shot to death Saturday night after trying to escape from Tucker prison farm. Testimony was offered by another prisoner in the farm hospital where Scroggins was being held for a case of mumps that Scroggins ripped off the screen from a door and unbolted the door. He was chased by a trusty guard, Lawrency Baker, who threateded to shoot if he did not stop. Scroggins turned and attacked Baker with a knife and the trusty guard shot him. The killing occurred about midnight. During the trial here Scroggins told his attorney, W.M. Thompson, that he would rather die in the electric chair than spend six months in the penitentiary. He had been in the state prison only two weeks."
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