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POW Hollis Allen Scruggs

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Prisoner of War Hollis Allen Scruggs marched to Bataan along with Scotty Satterwhite in the Spring of 1942. On that march, many were clubbed or bayoneted to death and left lying on the road.Scruggs came from Taylor. His father was George Harrison Scruggs who was born in Arkansas. His grandfather, was Henry Manville Scruggs (1850-1910) born in Alabama and his paternal grandmother was Laura Josephine Mills. The Scruggs family has deep roots in this country having participated in the American Revolution. Richard “Gentleman” Scruggs (1627-1669) came to the United States from Bedfordshire in England.Hollis Allen Scruggs’s mother descended from the ...

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