Obituary - Mount Pulaski Times-News, 30 August 1962 ORAN O. SCROGGIN, 93, DIED MONDAY, SERVICES YESTERDAY Oran Oliver Scroggin, oldest male resident of Mount Pulaski, who lived on West Jefferson St., died at 12:40 a.m. Monday, Aug. 27, 1962, in St. John's Hospital at Springfield, Ill. He had been hospitalized for eight days. Mr. Scroggin was aged 93 years, 10 months, and 10 days. He was in the hospital earlier this summer and underwent surgery. Decedent was born Oct. 17, 1868 at Mahomet, near Champaign, Ill., a son of Alfred C. Scroggin and Mary Phillipe Scroggin. He came to Logan County with his parents in boyhood, living on the Scroggin farm close to the Steenbergen Cemetery four miles southwest of Mt. Pulaski. In Williamsville, Ill., on Jan. 28, 1892, he married Lillie Steenbergen. For 14 years they resided on farms in Oklahoma, Iowa, and Minnesota, and then they moved back to the old homestead. In 1922 Mr. and Mrs. Scroggin retired from the farm and moved to the residence on West Jefferson Street. During the years Mr. Scroggin looked after his land interests and for some time was associated with his son-in-law, Russell Buckles, in the operation of the Mount Pulaski theater. Decedent was a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard K. Scroggin, pioneers, who had come to this area of Illinois a number of years before the town of Mt. Pulaski was founded in 1836. They settled on what is now called the lake ditch area which was then also occupied by Indians. The pioneer Scroggin family is of Welsh and was founded in America in colonial days. Mr. Scroggin had been a member of the Christian Church for a great many years and also belonged to the Modern Woodmen of America. His wife preceded him in death Jan. 19, 1958. He is survived by one son, Wesley of Mount Pulaski, and two daughters, Mrs. Jennie Smallwood of Decatur, and Mrs. Edna Buckles (wife of Russell Buckles) of Mount Pulaski. There are six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. The remains were removed to the Schahl Funeral Home in Mt. Pulaski, where funeral services were held Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 2 p.m., conducted by the Rev. Paul Burdick, pastor of the Mt. Pulaski Christian Church. Appropriate hymns were played on the organ by Mrs. Burdick. Burial was in the Mt. Pulaski cemetery. Pallbearers were Everett Rothwell, Wilford Scroggin Jr., Earl Holmes, Austin Shaffenacker, George A. Volle, and John Whittle, the latter from Decatur.