Excerpts from an aticle in The Journal, Altavista, VA, October 29, 1980 - The original house...before Parker Shorts' grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. COLEMAN scruggs.... Parker Short's father, Sam Short, bought the home after Mrs. Scruggs died.He and his wife, the daughter of Henry Scruggs and a granddaughter of the Coleman Scruggeses, lived there and raised nine children....Soap Stone Creek winds through the bottom land "through the prettiest country you ever saw" ...and flows into the Sycamore. |