{"id":1044,"date":"2015-09-24T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:36","slug":"john-w-wiggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-w-wiggins\/","title":{"rendered":"WIGGINS, John W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JOHN W. WIGGINS<\/strong>, a successful farmer and stock raiser, was born December 26, 1812, in North Carolina.\u00a0 He is the son of <strong>Harrel and Sallie (Royster) Wiggins<\/strong>.\u00a0 The father was born in North Carolina in 1788, and when quite young immigrated to Indiana, where he remained but a few months.\u00a0 He then went to Kentucky, and from there to Coffee County, Tenn., where he remained until 1830, when he immigrated to Bedford County, and settled in the Twentieth District.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">He reared a family of seven children, three of whom are living at the present time: <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">John W., David and Harbert.<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0 <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Harrel Wiggins<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church and died in 1851.\u00a0 Mrs. Wiggins died in 1873.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Our subject was given a fair education in the common schools.\u00a0 In 1835 he was married to <strong>Miss Mary Greer<\/strong>, a native of North Carolina.\u00a0 To this union seven children were born, only two of whom are living:\u00a0 <strong>Mary A. and Hundley<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Mrs. Wiggin<\/strong>s was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and died September 15, 1885.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Wiggins<\/strong> has always been a tiller of the soil, has been rather successful and owns 450 acres of good land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN W. WIGGINS, a successful farmer and stock raiser, was born December 26, 1812, in North Carolina.\u00a0 He is the son of Harrel and Sallie (Royster) Wiggins.\u00a0 The father was born in North Carolina in 1788, and when quite young immigrated to Indiana, where he remained but a few months.\u00a0 He then went to Kentucky, &#8230; <a title=\"WIGGINS, John W.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-w-wiggins\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WIGGINS, John W.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1787],"tags":[3579,3576,3577,3578,3575,3581,3574,3580],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-coffee","tag-greer-mary","tag-royster-sallie","tag-wiggins-david","tag-wiggins-harbart","tag-wiggins-harrel","tag-wiggins-hundley","tag-wiggins-john-w","tag-wiggins-mary-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}