Carver-Price Legacy Museum benefits from family investment

Like many families across Virginia, the Scruggs-Jopling family has rich ties to the area. In May, family members gathered in Appomattox on land that has been in the family since 1877.

Many who returned to the "homeplace" near the Civil War Surrender Grounds remembered it as the central gathering place for family over many, many years. Others remembered the farm that used to be on the property and its chickens and fresh eggs, fruit trees and vegetables.

HaHie Scruggs inherited the land in Appomattox from his grandmother, Biddy Scruggs, and his father, Albert Scruggs. He and his brother married sisters from Goode. After leaving Appomattox, serving in the United States military and working in the coal mines in West Virginia, HaIlie and Elizabeth Jopling Scruggs would return to the "homeplace" in 1950 with their youngest sons, Sam and Gene. Both sons (and their spouses) graduated from Carver-Price High School.

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