This is my family, Minnie Pearl is my mother. That is about as far as I got so far too. I have applied for their birth and death certificiates. I did get the marriage certificiate of my grandparents.
I am really trying to find out if the White Ned Scruggs who owned a farm, and openly lived with a black woman by the name of Mariah is actually my grandfather's father or grandfather. The Scruggs from Franklin are said to actually be Browns. Some people and accountings say that the Scruggs and Browns are related. Actually, they are one and the same family.
So I really need to ask if there are any Browns out threre from Tennessee, Mississippi, Virginia or Alabama originally who are kin to the Scruggs from Franklin, TN. Though my granddad, Walter Scruggs was born in Columbia, TN, he and his family lived in Franklin.