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Adam Albritton Biggs

Male 1840 - 1914  (73 years)


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  • Name Adam Albritton Biggs  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Birth 10 Feb 1840  Pitt, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1850  District 2, Graves, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence 1870  Feliciana, Graves, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Residence 1910  Mountain View Ward 1, Kiowa, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Death 31 Jan 1914  Mountain View, Kiowa, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • Capt. Adam A. Biggs Obituary

      Died Saturday, January 31, 1914. Capt. Adam Albriton Biggs, aged 73 years, 11 months and 21 days.

      Captain Biggs was the fourth son of James and Nellie Biggs and was born in North Carolina, February 10, 1840. At the age of two years his parents moved to Kentucky where most of his early life was spent. He enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of 20 years, and was later raised to the rank of captain in General Forest's Brigade.

      After the war he engaged in the mercantile business in Paducah, Ky. In 1867 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ellen Balenger, of Mayfield, Kentucky and to this union was born seven children, four girls and three boys, all living except one son. In 1878 Captain Biggs moved to Texas and in 1898 moved to Chickasha. Two years later he moved to Mountain View and became a settler of this town. He came here on the first train that ran into the town. He engaged in the hotel business and was successful and made many friends, as he was strictly moral and temperate in all things, and he was proud of the fact that he never used tobacco nor strong drink.

      Professing religion at an early age he united with the Cumberland Presbyterian church and ever after lived a consistent Christian, Capt. Biggs was a genial, whole-souled man - one who won the hearts of men. The little children were his friends and no one was too small or insignificant to be greeted by his cheerful word. The world is better from the fact that Captain Biggs once lived and was one human among many.

      The children who were at his bedside at death or attended the funeral are G. A. Biggs, Marlow: Mrs. Joseph Huber, Blair; Mrs. W.H. Kuder, Gotbo; Mrs. Fred Campbell, Hobart. Martha Lucinda Lamm, of Greenville, Texas, was with him for some time, assisting the wife and children in caring for the loving husband, father and brother.

      The floral offering from friends here, and from Chickasha, Comanche, Hobart and Gotbo were many and beautiful.

      Funeral services were held at the family residence Sunday, February 1, conducted by Rev. J.W. French, of the Methodist Church. The songs were touching and sweet and especially the solo "Face to Face" rendered by Mrs. F.D. Lucas, of Gotbo. The remains were laid to rest in the Mountain View Cemetery. Those who acted as pallbearers were O.K. Botts, James Lamm, William Reed, D.E. McBride, James Bradbury, and William Parnell.

      ‘Tis hard to break the tender cord,
      When love has bound the heart.
      Tis hard, so hard to speak the words "Must we forever part?"
      Dearest loved one, we have laid thee
      In the peaceful grave's embrace,
      But the memory will be cherished
      Till we see thy heavenly face

      SOURCE: Find A Grave
    Burial 1 Feb 1914  Mountain View Cemetery, Mountain View, Kiowa, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I10946  tng Genealogy

    Father James Biggs,   b. 15 Nov 1801, Martin, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Feb 1894, Masco, Hickman, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Nellie Allbritton,   b. 1815, Pitt, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1845, Graves, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 30 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 1836 
    Family ID F3977  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Ellen Balenger,   b. 1840, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Walter Biggs,   b. 1868, Graves, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Carrie Biggs,   b. Dec 1869, Graves, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Fannie Eugenia Biggs,   b. 8 Jun 1878, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Sep 1960, Harlingen, Cameron, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +4. Ada Jane Biggs,   b. 22 Feb 1873, Jackson, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1947 (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F3978  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 10 Feb 1840 - Pitt, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1910 - Mountain View Ward 1, Kiowa, Oklahoma Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 31 Jan 1914 - Mountain View, Kiowa, Oklahoma, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S360] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;).
      1850 United States Federal Census Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: NARA, 1850.M432, 1,009 rolls. District 2, Graves, Kentucky, roll M432_201, page 381, image 357.
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=17140517&indiv=try
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      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=17140517&indiv=try

    2. [S352] Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).
      1870 U.S. Federal Census. Feliciana, Graves, Kentucky, post office Feliciana, roll 464, page 77, image 154.
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1870usfedcen&h=17740671&indiv=try
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      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1870usfedcen&h=17740671&indiv=try

    3. [S541] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27717050.
      Record for Capt Adam Allbritton Biggs
      https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=82856502&indiv=try
      https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=82856502&indiv=try

    4. [S356] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;).
      Year: 1910; Census Place: Mountain View Ward 1, Kiowa, Oklahoma; Roll T624_1257; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 178; Image: 709.
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&h=22939083&indiv=try
      [ View Federal Census Document]
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&h=22939083&indiv=try



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