Gates County NcArchives Biographies.....WIGGINS, JAMES AND MARY 1832 - 1888
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Source: WIGGINS FAMILY REUNION 8-11-1940
Author: W.H.WELCH

STATEMENTS BY. W.H. WELCH,SR. GIVEN TO THE DESCENDENTS OF JAMES WIGGINS AND
MARY VIRGINIA TALOR MATHEWS WIGGINS AT THE FIRST WIGGINS FAMILY REUNION HELD
AT THE OLD E.C.WELCH HOMEPLACE SUNDAY AUGUST 11, 1940 NEAR EDENTON ON WELCH RD.
   JAMES WIGGINS WAS BORN ABOUT 1832 NEAR WIGGINS CROSS ROADS BETWEEN CORAPEAKE
AND MIDDLESWAMP IN GATES COUNTY, N.C. AND DIED ABOUT 1888 AT WIGGINS CROSS RDS
NEAR MINTONSVELLE IN GATES COUNTY . HE WAS LEFT A PRACTICALLY AN ORPAN WHEN HIS
MOTHER PRISCILLA BRINKLEY WIGGINS DIED AND HIS FATHER DIED HE WAS TAKEN BY HIS
COL JESSE WIGGINS HIS EXECUTOR WHERE HE LIVE UNTIL HIS UNCLE DIED. HIS MOTHER
SISTER SOHIA BRINKLEY STALLINGS OF MRS. WHIT STALLINGS WHO HUSBAND SERVE IN
THE N.C.HOUSE OF REPRESENTIVES. HE STATED THAT THE ESTATE OF HIS FATHER WAS
SOLD .THE WILL OF JAMES WIGGINS FATHER WAS PROBATED IN MAY 30. 1838 WHEN JAMES
WAS FIVE , JAMES STATED THAT HE WAS UNCLEAR ABOUT THE PLANTATION HE ALONG WITH
HIS BROTHER WAS TO INHERIT.
. JAMES WIGGINS GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER
WERE JAMES AND THERESA POWELL WIGGINS. HIS GREAT GRAND FATHER WAS JESSE WIGGINS
WHO LEFT A WILL DATED SEPTEMBER 5, 1823  AND FILED IN COURT IN MAY, 1826.
THOMAS WIGGINS NOW GATES LEFT A WILL DATED JANUARY 7, 1760 HE MENTIONS JESSE
WIGGINS THE GREAT GRANDFATHER OF JAMES WIGGINS.
  JAMES WIGGINS MOTHER WAS PRESICLLIA BRINKLEY WAS THE DAUGHTER OF SIMON 
BRINKLEY . SIMION BRINKLEY WILL DATED DECEMBER 6, 1827 PROBATED IN FEBURARY 
1828. GRANDMOTHER MARY VIRGINA TAYLOR MATHEWS WIGGINS FATHER WAS ROBIN TAYLOR
LIVED DURING THE REVOLUTION WAR TRADITION HAS IT HE WAS KILLED AT HIS OWN FRONT
DOOR. HE LEFT A WILL LEAVING THE FARM. JAMES AND MARY VIRGINIA MATHEWS WIGGINS
MADE THERE HOME ON CARTERS ROAD IN GATES COUNTY ON THE FARM SHE GOT FROM HER
LATE FATHER ESTATE. THEY RAISE TOGETHER WILLIAMS S WIGGINS BORN 1852-1923 
MARRIED  A CARTER , THERE CHILDREN WERE ( MARY , VIRGIE , LUCILE, AGES, EVELYN,
WILLIAM, JAMES.
   SEC CHILD WAS JOHN B WIGGINS(B-1853 D-1933) M FRANCES WINSLOW THERE 
CHILDREN WERE CHARLIE,JOHN B , LULA , KATIE , JESSIE, JOHN S WIGGINS.
   THIRD CHILD MARY ELIZABETH WIGGINS ( 1856 -1929 )MARRIED MOSES BYRUM
CHILDREN MINNIE, ANNIE, MOORES, MARY, MILTON , LUCY , MATTIE , JOEL, GRAHAM,
    FOURTH JAMES GRAHAM WIGGNS ( B-1858 D-1910) MARRIED GETTY TROTMAN THERE
CHILDREN CAROL, JIM, VIRGIE.
     FIFTH ROBERT GRAHAM WIGGINS ( b-1865    ) MARRIED MAMIE CRANE OF BALTMORE
MD. CHILDREN ROBERT G WIGGINS
      SIXTH NORA P WIGGINS B-1862 1931) MARRIED EDWARD WELCH CHILDREN WERE
BESSIE ,DREW, MAMIE, ROBERT, GLENN.
      SEVEN NAN WIGGINS (B-11-8-1864 MARRIED JOSEPH HARRELL CHILDREN WERE
AUDREY ,BOB, CAPTALLA, SAM , ADLEE.
       
       

Additional Comments:
THIS BIOGRAPHY IS FROM THE STATMENTS MADE AT THE WIGGINS FAMILY REUNION AND
PUT TOGETHER BY W.H.WELCH OF NORA P WIGGINS WELCH FAMILY.

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