William Wiggins and Family, Smith County, TX ****************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Carey L. Smith -- ccoloradomtn@cs.com 22 May 2001 ****************************************************************** WILLIAM WIGGINS AND FAMILY "Biographies of Old Settlers." Historical, Personal and Reminiscent. Volume I By Sid S. Johnson, 1900: Sid S. Johnson, Publisher, Tyler, Texas Chapter LXXXV--Pages 343-344. William Wiggins was a native of North Carolina; moved to Alabama, and married Miss Sarah Marsh, who was a native Alabamian. He moved to Texas in 1850, and settled near Mt. Carmel, where he died about the close of the civil war. He was a prominent planter--a man of great popularity by all who knew him. He was an old, Southern gentleman of that school which gave the South such prominence for generous hospitality. Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins raised four children--John M., Thomas, Mary E. and Ed W. John M. Wiggins married Miss Laura Bates; they raised four children-- Sallie, Mittie, J.W. and Ida. Sallie married John P. Smith; Mittie married Geo. R. Kennedy; Ida married John B. Douglas. Ida died about one year after her marriage. J.W. married Miss Mattie Rountree. Geo died several years ago, leaving a widow and one son--Chesley. Mary E. Wiggins married Geo. W. Bates; they raised two children--Jas. W. and Dora. Jas W. was killed in Tyler, soon after the close of the civil war. Dora married Chas. Reeves; they have three children; they reside in Mineola, Texas. Thomas Wiggins married Miss Sallie Wadsworth; several children. All dead. Ed B. Wiggins married Miss Eliza Roberts; they have four children-- Lizzie, Mary, Eddice and Florence. Lizzie married John A. Bonner; they have three children--Edmund, Jack and Elizabeth. Mary married Jas. S. Loftin; they have two children--Sophie and Elizabeth. Eddie and Florence reside with their parents, No. 540 Bois'dArc St., Tyler, Texas. The Wiggins families have occupied the front seats in business. True to the duties of good citizenship, it is truly an intelligent Southern family, loyal to Southern institutions and Southern traditions.