_Isaiah James SCRIVNER _
_Michael Warren SCRIVNER _|
| |_Mary Ellen BOASE ______
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|--James Edgar SCRIVNER
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|_Mary Frances HUDSON _____|
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In 1914 or 1915, James Edgar moved his family to New Mexico, following his brother William Clarence Scrivner. James homesteaded a section of land about nine miles between Tatum and Lovington. He built a barn with a tin roof and the family lived in it until the house was built. The barn was made of adobe brick with rock on the outside. Totsie and Warren helped James Edgar build the house. It was built of local rocks, with adobe mud for filler, and had windows and doors. James Edgar and Warren dug the well.
About a year after Dora died in childbirth, James Edgar married Lena Stringer, the sister of Everett Scrivner's wife, Virgie. They separated some time after 1922 and Lena remarried one of her former husbands (the father of Geneva). James did not marry again.
At one time, James had a domino parlor in Oklahoma.
James Edgar Scrivner died at Amherst Hospital, near Earth, Texas, after having had all his teeth extracted. It was too much for his heart. He is buried at Bookout Cemetery, Dermott, Texas, as are Dora Dell, both his and her parents, some of their grandparents, and other relatives. It is a private, family cemetery, now maintained by Scurry County.