1850 Census - Wayne County, Tennessee
District 6 - 20 Sep 1850

  375 384
  James Scott    27 M Farmer 500 Tenn
  Jane           25 F            Tenn
  Francis         1 F            Tenn

  [I believe this to be James Staggs and his family.  The names of the family members and their
  ages fit fairly well.  This family lives adjacent in the census to an older James Scott who
  already has a son James.  James Staggs shows up in the 1860 census almost adjacent to the 
  same James Scott.  I believe the census taker made an error in recording the surname.]

1860 Census - Wayne County, Tennessee
District 17 - 31 July 1860

  883 883
  James N. Staggs   34 M Farmer 400 450 Tenn
  Saphira J.        28 F                Tenn
  Fannie            11 F                Tenn
  Mary J.            9 F                Tenn
  Jacob B.           5 M                Tenn
  Nancy              2 F                Tenn

1870 Census - Wayne County, Tennessee
District 6 - 26 Aug 1870

  15 15
  Staggs, Safrona J.   38 F W Farming  400 428  Tenn
  Mary J.              19 F W Keeping House     Tenn
  Jacob B.             15 M W Works on Farm     Tenn
  Nancy                12 F W At House          Tenn
  Elizabeth            10 F W   do              Tenn

1880 Census - Wayne County, Tennessee
District 14 - 18 June 1880

  164 167
  Staggs, Surphrony  W F 47      W Keeping House Tenn Ky   Tenn
  Jacob B.           W M 25 Son  M Farm Laborer  Tenn Tenn Tenn
  Amanda[y]          W F 18 DLaw M               Tenn Engl Tenn
  Pollock, Robert A. W M 27 SLaw M Farm Laborer  Tenn Tenn Tenn
  ---, Nancy         W F 22 Dau  M               Tenn Tenn Tenn
  ---, James M.      W M  6 GSon S               Tenn Tenn Tenn
  ---, Walter C.     W M  4 GSon S               Tenn Tenn Tenn [born in Jan]

From Andreas Eastep's Research Notes:

10. JAMES NESBITT3 STAGGS (JOSEPH2, WILLIAM CHARLES1) was born December 29, 1826 in Wayne County,
Tennessee, and died April 1862 in Wayne County, Tennessee. He married SOPHONIA JANE CHURCHWELL Abt.
1846 in Wayne County, Tennessee, daughter of RICHARD CHURCHWELL and SALLIE MCBRIDE.

Notes for JAMES NESBITT STAGGS:
He was born and reared in Wayne county, Tennessee. He enlisted in the Civil War and during that war
died with fever.

'James N. Staggs, son of Joseph and Frances Nesbitt Staggs, was born around 1827/28 in Tennessee. He
married Sophonia J. Churchwell around 1847. They were the parents of Fanny, Mary J., Jacob B., and
Nancy. James N. Staggs settled the estate of his parents."

"Be it remembered that a Quorum County Court held in a town of Waynesboro, Tennessee. Febuary 6,
1860, William S. T. Edwards, James N. Staggs, William Pollard, chairman, William Jones, clerk, and J.
B. Biffle, his deputy.

Children of JAMES STAGGS and SOPHONIA CHURCHWELL are:
14. i. JACOB BIFFLE4 STAGGS, b. May 28, 1855, Wayne County, Tennessee; d. August 16, 1925, Maury
County, Tennessee.
ii. FANNIE STAGGS, b. 1849.
iii. MARY JANE STAGGS, b. 1851.
15. iv. NANCY STAGGS, b. 1858, Tennessee.
v. ELIZABETH STAGGS, b. June 21, 1860; d. December 10, 1925; m. PATRICK HENRY CORCORAN, Lawrence
County, Tennessee.