Athens Weekly Review Feb. 23, 1933 
Mrs. Mollie Scruggs, 76, wife of J. R. Scruggs, prominent merchant, at Baxter, died late Friday afternoon at the family home in that community.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock from the Baxter Methodist church. The services were conducted by Rev. M. I. Brown, Methodist pastor at Murchison, and Rev. R. E. Connell, pastor of the First Methodist Church at Athens. Her six sons acted as pall bearers. Interment was in the Athens cemetery.

The deceased, the former Miss Mollie T. Brown, was born on October 19, 1856 at Norwood, Ga. She and J. R. Scruggs were married on September 2nd, 1883 and after living a number of years in Georgia the family came to Texas in 1900, moving first to Bell county. They lived successively in Grayson, Hopkins and Johnson counties, moving to Henderson county in 1918 when they purchased the John D. Knight farm in the Baxter community.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Scruggs is survived by eight children; six boys, C. B. Scruggs, Saltillo, J. H. Scruggs, Roscoe; R. S. Scruggs, Waco; L. F. Scruggs, Cleburne; G.B. Scruggs, Mallinger; R. L. Scruggs, Athens; two daughters, Mrs. G. A. Johnson, El Paso, and Mrs. Viola Whittington, of the Baxter community. Eleven grandchildren, and four great grand children, are also left to mourn her loss.

Mrs. Scruggs had been a devoted member of the Methodist Church for many years.