Greene-Sullivan County IN Archives Biographies.....Pigg, Sanders 1813 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

    SANDERS PIGG, son of James and Mary (Neeley) Pigg, of North Carolina and
Virginia respectively, was born in White County, Tenn., May 13, 1813, but owing
to the removal of his parents to McMinn County, he was reared to manhood in the
last-named county. Six months was the sum total of his schooling advantages, but
so well did he improve this time that he learned to read and write readily and
transact any ordinary business. Having considerable skill in the use of tools,
he learned the carpenter's trade, and made that his occupation many years.
Together with his parents, he removed to Sullivan County, Ind., in 1829,
remaining with his father until twenty-one years of age, when he located a
"claim" in Wright Township, Greene County, but a year later exchanged this
property for a farm owned by a brother-in-law, W. Gamble. This he has cleared
and improved, and now owns a fine farm of 314 acres. In 1870, he erected his
present brick dwelling, a building that reflects not only credit upon himself
but his township as well. In this county, on the 16th of October, 1832, he was
married to Miss Hannah Gamble, who was born in White County, Tenn., in about the
year 1818, the fifth child born to the union of Martin and Susan (Shadden)
Gamble, both of whom were natives of the Old Dominion. To them eleven children
have been born—Mary E., James, Morgan G., Wiley H., Susanna, Andrew J., John H.,
Eliza E., Elizabeth A., William C. and Emma. The last three named are deceased.
Mr. Pigg is a member of the Christian Church, a Democrat, and one of the few
remaining of our old pioneers. On first coming to Indiana, it was a new country,
filled with wild animals and game of various kinds, and so new was the country
and so thick the game that Mr. Pigg has seen as many as eighty-seven deer in one
drove.

Additional Comments:
Wright Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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