Mahalie Mary Biggs

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Between 3 and 4 Jun 1880, keeping house. McKinley, Monroe, Alabama
• Residence: 1840, Monroe, Alabama
• Residence: 8 Jun 1860, Burnt Corn, Monroe, Alabama
• Residence: 28 Jul 1870, keeping house. Dennards Bluff, Monroe, Alabama

Notes:

Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969

Name: Wilson J Wiggins
Spouse: Mip Mary Biggs
Marriage Date: 30 Jul 1834
County: Monroe
State: Alabama
Performed by Name: H B Travis
Source information: Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data:
Alabama Center for Health Statistics. Alabama Marriage Index, 1936-1969. Alabama Center for Health Statistics, Montgomery, Alabama.
Dodd, Jordan R., et. al. Early American Marriages: Alabama to 1825. Bountiful, UT: Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx.
Hunting For Bears, comp. Alabama marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfiche, or book format, located at the Family History Library.
Dodd, Jordan R., comp. Early American Marriages: Alabama, 1800 to 1920.

Mahalie married Wilson S. E. Wiggins on 30 Aug 1834 in Red Hill, Monroe, Alabama. Wilson (son of Elijah Daniel Wiggins and Mariann Ann Locke) was born on 11 Jun 1813 in Sampson, North Carolina; died after 1880 in Monroe, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Catherine T. Wiggins was born about 1839 in Monroe, Alabama; died in 1871 in Monroe, Alabama; was buried in 1871 in Franklin, Monroe, Alabama.
2. Nancy Dorcas Wiggins was born about 1840 in Monroe, Alabama; died in 1900.
3. Frances Wiggins was born about 1844 in Monroe, Alabama; died before 1944.
4. William H. Franklin Wiggins was born in Feb 1844 in Monroe, Alabama; died on 18 Jun 1932 in Monroe, Alabama; was buried in Jun 1932 in Franklin, Monroe, Alabama.
5. Zachariah Taylor Wiggins was born on 1 Sep 1848 in Monroe, Alabama; died on 22 Mar 1929 in , Escambia, Alabama; was buried in Mar 1929 in Brewton, Escambia, Alabama.
6. Charles Wiggins was born about 1851 in Monroe, Alabama; died about 1880 in Wilcox, Alabama.
7. Mary Jane Wiggins was born in Jun 1853 in Monroe, Alabama; died before 1953 in Bell's Landing, Monroe, Alabama; was buried in Franklin, Monroe, Alabama.
8. Hazelwood Biggs Wiggins was born in May 1856 in Monroe, Alabama; died on 2 Nov 1935 in Clarke, Alabama; was buried in Nov 1935 in Scyrene, Clark, Alabama.
9. Cornelia Ellen Wiggins was born on 17 Sep 1857 in Monroe, Alabama; died on 19 Jul 1918 in Monroe, Alabama; was buried in Jul 1918 in Uriah, Monroe, Alabama.
10. Thomas Wiggins was born about 1867 in Monroe, Alabama; died before 1880 in Monroe, Alabama.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1790, Edgecombe, Edgecombe, North Carolina
• Residence: 1830, , Monroe, Alabama
• Land: 28 Jul 1838, , Monroe, Alabama
• Residence: 1840, , Monroe, Alabama
• Land: 2 Feb 1852, , Monroe, Alabama
• Land: 1 Nov 1858, , Monroe, Alabama
• Land: 1 Sep 1860, , Monroe, Alabama

Notes:

Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 4
Total Free White Persons: 6
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 6
T7-N R8-E St. Stephens Meridian Section-3 Section Part-SENW.
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 3
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 2
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total Slaves: 5
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 9
T7-N R8-E St. Stephens Meridian Section-9 Section Part-SWSE
T7-N R8-E St. Stephens Meridian Section-10 Section Part-NWNW
T7-N R8-E St. Stephens Meridian Section-3 Section Part-NWNW
From the will of John Biggs 1789 Edgecombe Co., NC.

I give To my son Tully Three notes of hand for money one against Wm. Simmonds one against James Simmonds & one against John Symmonds., also I give him one grey Horse Called Dolphin & one Grey mair Called pegion and one Ewe and Lamb - - To him and his Heirs forever.

I Leave to the Use of my well beloved wife Bethiah and Children during her Life, all of my property and Negroes which is not Legacied above and after her Death I give To my son Tulley one feather bead and furniture

Mitchell + Elizabeth Matthews McClure. Elizabeth was born in Dec 1778 in , , Georgia; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edgecombe County, NC - Will of John Biggs, 1789


In the Name of God Amen the Twelvth day
August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred And Eighty Nine, I John Biggs of Edgecomb County in North Carolina being very sick and weak in body But of sound & perfect Mind and Memory, thanks be Given Unto God for the same, and Calling to mind the Mortality of my body, and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and Recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body I Recommend it to the Earth, to be Buried in a Christian like man-
-ner nothing Doubting But at the Jenerall Resurrecttion I shall receive the same again by the Mighty power of God and as Touching such worldly Estate as Where with it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life I give, Devise, and Dispose of in
Manner and form following, that is to say, in the first place I give and Bequeath unto my well Beloved son James and his Heirs forever, a Tract of Land Whereon Francis Haynes now lives, containing Two Hundred acres, more or LeSs to be Divided from
this by a Branch that runs this side of his Barns Also I give to my son William and his Heirs foreve the Tract of Land Whereon I now life - - - - - -Also I give To my Daughter sarah and her Heirs forever one feather bead and furniture also one
negro girl named Huldy and her Increase ---------..
Also I give to my Daugher Nancy and her Heirs for Ever one negroe Boy named Cain ---- Also I give To my Daughter Lovie and her Heirs for Ever one feather Bad and furniture, and one negroe Boy named Jesse - - Also I give to my Daughter Elizabeth and to her Heirs forever one feather Bead and furniture, and if my Negroe woman Lucy Shall Bear another Child I give that To her and if she shallo not Bring another Child I leave Her fifty pound to be raised out of my Estate at my wife's Death - - - Also I give To my son Tully Three notes of hand for money one against Wm. Simmonds one against James Simmonds & one against John Symmonds., also I give him one grey Horse Called Dolphin & one Grey mair Called pegion and one Ewe and Lamb - -
To him and his Heirs forever - --- also I leave one sorrel Horse to be sold
Also I Leave to the Use of my well beloved wife Bethiah and Children during her Life, all of my property and Negroes which is not Legacied above and after her Death I give To my son Tulley one feather bead and furniture, and all the Rest of the property to be Equally Divided among my Children ------------Also I Constitute, make and ordain
my well beloved wife, and my son Tully my only and sole Executors of this my Last will & Testament I do hereby DiSallow, Revoke and Dis annul all and Every other will, Testament and Legacies Bequeath, and Exr. by me, in ways before this time
.
Named willed and Bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirmin this and no other to be my Last will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have Hereunto set my hand and Seal the day and year above written------ Sign'd Seal'd publish'd pronounced and Declar'd by the Said John Biggs (Seal)
John Biggs as his Last will and Testament in the presents of us
Francis Laurence Haynes
Kinchen killebrew
Jinthia Spinks

Edgecombe County Nor. Court 1789

the Within Will was duly Proved in Open Court by the Oaths of Francis Lawrance
Haynes & Jenthia Spinks. Excrs Qualified and the Will Ordered to be Recorded
Test
Edwd. Hance

Source: Edgecombe Co NC Wills, NC State Archives, Raleigh, NC
Call number: CR.037.801.3, Biggs, John 1789

John married Bethiah Ludgall about 1750. Bethiah was born about 1730 in Norfolk, Virginia; died about 1795 in Edgecombe, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the will of John Biggs 1789 Edgecombe Co., NC.

I Leave to the Use of my well beloved wife Bethiah and Children during her Life, all of my property and Negroes which is not Legacied above and after her Death I give To my son Tulley one feather bead and furniture.

John + Sarah Etheridge. Sarah was born about 1690 in Virginia; died about 1750 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]