Gates County NcArchives Cemeteries.....HOFLER-HOBBS-WIGGINS - Complete Survey
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GERALD WIGGINS gwiggins@inteliport.com February 25, 2006, 8:07 pm

Abstracted By: GERALD WIGGINS

THE CEMETERY IS LOCATED ON CARTER RD SR 1100 IN GATES COUNTY
N.C. THE CEMETERY IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE ROAD AND IS AT OR
NEAR THE 880 BLOCK OF CARTER RD. THE CEMETERY IS PART OF THE
EMMETT H ESTATE AND HIS LISTED IN THE CHOWAN CLERK OF COURT
IN EDENTON N.C.

Last Name     First Name    Middle Name          Birth       Death       Comment
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ALPHIN        RALPH         T/ WORLD WAR I       1896        1987        1
ALPHIN        IOLA          G                    1905        2000        1
HOFLER        ROBERT        W                    1876        1935        2
HOFLER        ROSELINE      W                    1880        1963        3
HOFLER        HUGH          W                    1900        1963        4
BRITTEHAM     ORIS          R                    1916        1996        5
HOFLER        MAVIS         W                    1922        2000        6
HOFLER        W             EARL                 1903        1968        7
HOBBS         PEARL         H                    1897        1952        8
HOBBS         RUFUS         L                    1883        1953        9
HOFLER        EMMETT        VERON/WORLD WAR I    1893        1918        10 KILLED IN FRANCE
HOFLER        IOLA          WELCH                1871        1947        11
HOFLER        LEROY         S                    1898        1969        12
HOFLER        ETHEL         S                    1897        1986        13
WIGGINS       EMMETT        HOFLER/WORLD WAR II  1921        1995        14
ELLIOTT       PENNIE                             1819        1894        15
HAYES         SARAH                              1840        1911        16
HOFLER        SARAH                              1905        1905        17



Additional Comments:
EMMETT WIGGINS, WAS IN THE NEWS MEDIA ALOT OVER THE YEARS IT WAS REPORTED THAT
THE LAND CASE HE AND THE RAILROAD CLAIM TITLE TO WAS THE LONGEST COURT FIGHT IN
NORTH CAROLINA, HE OWN A BOAT SALVAGE COMPANY AND RAISED A LIGHT HOUSE THAT WAS
SAID COULD NOT BE DONE HE LIVE IN THE HISTORIC LIGHT HOUSE IN EDENTON ,UNTIL 
HIS DEATH IN 1995 HE WAS THE ONLY CHILD BORN TO C.J.AND PAULINE HOFLER WIGGINS 
HIS DADDY C J WIGGINS DROWN OF THE COAST OF NAGS HEAD WHILE ON VACATION AFTER 
HE RETURN BACK HOME FROM WORLD WAR I. EMMETT ALSO INVENTED A SCUBA DIVING SUITE 
TO GO TO DEPTHS IN THE OCEAN FLOOR THAT HE WAS TOLD WAS TO DEEP, THE SUITE HE 
INVENTED TOOK HIM TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN FLOOR.

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