Lester Scaggs with his descendents, pictured 17 June 1977.
Lester Scaggs, a former mule skinner with 11 siblings, celebrated his 96th birthday at an all-day family reunion June 25, 1977, at the Elks Pavilion in Lake of the Woods
Park , near Mahomet.
As a young man Scaggs farmed before moving to Onarga; he later moved to Loda, where he worked for Healey Poultry Company. Scaggs drove mule teams that hauled corn to the Rankin Canning
Plant. His wife Katherine died in 1970.
With Scaggs in the pictures above are; from left, Shirley Sykes, his granddaughter; Viola Morris, his daugnter, and Cynthia Sykes, his great-granddaughter.
He holds his three-month old great-great-granddaughter, Donyell Sykes.
