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Author: WBROWN
Surnames: Biggs Montgomery
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Telitha was a common name in the Biggs family. Yours is the daughter of Burrill (or
Burwell) Wall (or Walls)Biggs (1787-1846)and his first wife, Elizabeth Lambert. Other
children were Sterling,Ambrose, John Jackson, Mary Elizabeth, Talitha, and Polly (may be
the same as Mary).
He married Elizabeth 27 March 1805. Burill had been born in Virginia, but in 1787
Kentucky was still part of Virginia, so there is no contradiction here.
Elizabeth died before the children were grown, and in 1867, Burrill had a second marriage
to Mary (Secrest) Montgomery, widow of Hugh Montgomery with children of her own. Hugh was
in Adams County, Ohio, not far north of Lexington, KY. I don't know if the two got
together in Ohio or KY. The combined Biggs-Montgomery family then moved to Nevins Twp,
Vigo County, Indiana.
Ancestry.com's World Tree lists 8 trees that include Burrill, name spelled as Burwell,
giving the ancestry of both the Biggs and the Lambert families.
I discovered the Biggs while looking up material on the Montgomeries. I doubt that I am
related, but way back in my ancestry I have a Burwell family that settled in CT.
Wilson Brown
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