Biography of William Huggans - Craighead Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Unknown < > Date: 26 Sep 1998 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. Goodspeed Publishers, 1889. page 336 William Huggans was born in Hall County, Ga., in 1821, and is a son of David and Elizabeth (Irbel) Huggans, natives of Georgia and South Carolina, respectively. The mother went to Georgia when quite a girl, was there married, and resided until her death in 1849. Her husband died in 1882. They were the parents of one son and three daughters, our subject being the only surviving child. Though only a boy, he went to Florida during the Seminole War, enlisting as a soldier. He returned home in 1839, and in the fall of the same year moved to Alabama, where he remained until 1854, when he came to Arkansas, locating near Greensboro, in Greene (now Craighead) County. He entered some land in Greene County, and rented for several years, and had improved a number of farms before coming to his present location. He is a wide-awake and energetic farmer, and although he only came to this place in 1887, he now has in a state of splendid cultivation seventy-five acres of choice farming land. December 8, 1839, he was married to Miss Mary Anthony, who was born and reared in South Carolina, and to this union have been born two children: John J. and Mrs. Elizabeth Steward, both now deceased. The son, John J., had married, and to him and wife had been born two children, one of whom grew to womanhood and married. She had one child, William T. Manerd, who is now living with Mr. Huggans. Both Mr. and Mrs. Huggans are active and charitable members of the community in which they live, and the latter is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.