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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 484-485]

    THOMAS SCURLOCK, one of the hardy pioneers, came to Cherokee County
    in May, 1863, at which time he entered eighty acres of land as a
    homestead upon which he still resides.  He was born in Jackson County,
    Ohio, December 22, 1816, and is a son of WILLIAM and SARAH (HUMPHREY)
    SCURLOCK, early settlers of Jackson County; the father served in the
    War of 1812; the parents were natives of North Carolina.  THOMAS spent
    his youth in assisting his father to clear and improve a timbered farm.
    He was married September 23, 1838, to JULIA PERKINS, a native of Gallia
    County, Ohio, and a daughter of ERASTUS PERKINS, a native of Conn-
    ecticut.  Some three years after his marriage Mr. SCURLOCK removed to
    the Territory of Iowa, settling in Jackson County, where he was one of
    the first settlers.  In 1856 he went to Humboldt County, settling on
    the Des Moines River; at that time Humboldt County had but few set-
    tlers, and those who were there had to undergo many privations and
    hardships.  In 1863 Mr. SCURLOCK came to Cherokee County, and found it
    as sparsely settled as the county he had left, there being only seven
    voters in the county.  He has been a resident of Iowa for nearly fifty
    years, and has witnessed the growth and development of one of the best
    States in this grand Union.  He has lived a life of honesty and fair
    dealing, and has won the confidence and esteem of all whom he has met.
    Politically his sentiments are voiced by the Republican party.  He has
    served as Supervisor of the county for four years, acquitting himself
    with much credit.  Mr. and Mrs. SCURLOCK have ten children living:
    JASPER, LEVI, NEWTON, SCOTT, WILLIAM, GEORGE, HENRY, MARY, THOMAS and
    SUSAN; they have lost three children: FRANK died at the age of twenty-
    eight years; ERASTUS, at the age of fourteen months; and JOHN, at the
    age of three years.

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