Below is the obituary I found for Carroll Laverne Scoggins, a g-grandson of Martha Breedlove and David Green Scoggins. His paternal line is David Timothy Scoggins, Doctor Franklin Scoggins, David Green Scoggins. Sacramento Bee (California) Obituaries, 1998-99 Headline: C. VERNE SCOGGINS PRESS SECRETARY TO EARL WARREN Publication Date: July 09, 1994 Source: The Sacramento Bee Page: B5 Obituary: At his request, no services will be conducted for C. Verne Scoggins, retired California public relations and campaign consultant, former state and federal official and free-lance writer. Mr. Scoggins died Wednesday in Community Hospital of Monterey. He was 92. He worked as a news and public relations secretary for former Gov. Earl Warren from 1943 to 1953. While at the Capitol, Mr. Scoggins was active in water studies of the Commonwealth Club of California. He also was active in numerous ballot issues and a number of national campaigns. He was considered a media pioneer, often using television to present campaign messages well before televisions were common in U.S. homes. Mr. Scoggins was a free-lance writer for various political magazines. He wrote extensively about California government and political issues, especially the Frank Merriam, Culbert Olson and Earl Warren gubernatorial years. Many of his writings are the property of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. During the Eisenhower administration, from 1956 to 1961, he served as the first regional director of the U.S. Post Office, the chief postal official in California. Headquartered in San Francisco, his territory included Nevada, California, Hawaii and Pacific islands. He worked to increase mail mechanization and distribution speed. Mr. Scoggins served on the California Public Utilities Commission from 1953 to 1955, when it was struggling to modernize the rate structure of the trucking industry. He also was a member of the California Highway Commission. He retired from a San Francisco public relations firm in the early 1970s. His grandparents were Sacramento Valley pioneer farmers during the Gold Rush, and his father, David, was a San Joaquin Valley homebuilder. Born in Stockton, he spent his youth in Lodi, where he began his political career campaigning for the re-election of U.S. Sen. Hiram Johnson. He also worked in the newspaper business under Irving Martin Sr., founder of the Stockton Record. He later took a job as secretary to former Gov. Clement C. Young. His lifetime hobbies were drawing and exhibiting charcoal sketches of California scenery. Mr. Scoggins is survived by a nephew, Leonard Scoggins of Pleasanton; and a niece, Roberta Weitzel of Oak Harbor, Wash. After cremation at Little Chapel-by-the-Sea, his ashes will be inurned at Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma. ************************************* Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary