Jesse J Scarbrough of Abbeville, Henry County, AL was born in December 1910 in Coffee County to Seth Rubin Scarbrough and Leila Elizabeth Flowers. He had siblings Mary Magdeline (Scarbrough) Adams, George Scarbrough, Roy Scarbrough, Albert Espey Scarbrough, Gloria Jean Scarbrough Powell, Ila Pearl (Scarbrough) Boyd Scott, Willie Dora (Scarbrough) Walden, Angelia Elda Scarbrough, Emma Lee Scarbrough, and Easter Bee Scarbrough. He married Flossie Flowers, and had children Frank Scarbrough, Winfred Scarbrough, and Jessie Mae Scarbrough. Jesse Scarbrough died at age 77 years old in August 1988.
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...