Union County IL Archives Cemeteries.....WIGGS CEMETERY - Complete Survey ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: DONALD AND DEANNE BIGGS RAINASGRANDMA@GMAIL.COM February 11, 2014, 8:13 pm Abstracted By: DONALD AND DEANNE BIGGS LOCATED IN UNION COUNTY ILLINOIS EAST ON 146 TAKE TIMBER ROAD TO COX LANE TRAVEL ABOUT A MILE ON COX LANE.LOCATED ON THE RIGHT ABOUT 1/4 MILE TO CEMETERY. THEIR ARE 5 OLD GRAVES AND ONE NEW GRAVE THIS ONE BEING OUR BROTHER, LOUIS BIGGS. FROM TALKING JOAN GRAVES EDWARDS, SHE USED TO TAKE PICTURES OF THE CEMETERYS FOR UNION COUNTY, THERE ARE MORE GRAVES THAN WHAT IS SHOWING Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WIGGS RICHARD DEC.16 1825 NOV 251887 SGT IN CIVIL WAR WIGGS MARY FRANCES GREER OCT 10 1827 TENN FEB 8 1907 OXFORD ELVIA L AUG 23 1897 MAY 26 1910 DROWNED OXFORD SON 1892 DEC 26 1892 FATHER JOHN ALLEN OXFOTD MOTHER MARTHA C WIGGS BIGGS LOUIS MICHEAL MARCH 5 1943 JUNE 24 2004 OWNER OF THE LAND THAT WIGGS CEMETERY SITS ON THE DAY OF HIS DEATH UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Additional Comments: CO,E 109TH ENLISTED AUG 15 1862,AGE 37 BORN IN WAYNE CO.N.C. FARMER. MUSTERED IN SEPT 11 1862 DESERTED MARCH 23 1863 AT MEMPHIS TN. TRANSFERRED CO.C 11TH. MUSTERED OUY JUL. 14 1865 AS PVT. AT BATON ROUGE LA.HE WAS A SHARPSHOOTER DURING THE CIVIL WAR. DIED OF CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS AND EPILEPSY. RECORDED AS ROBERT T WIGGS IN CIVIL WAR RECORDS. THIS CEMETERY HAS BEEN SURVEYED AND THERE IS A 20 FT NON EXCLUSIVE PERPTUAL INGRESS AND EGRESS TO THIS CEMETERY. WE WOULD LOV TO VOLUNTEER TO KEEP IT CLEAN AND MAINTAINED File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/union/cemeteries/wiggscem91cm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ilfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb