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Surnames: BIGGS, CAMPBELL
Classification: Query
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To: Betty Wiggins
Dear Betty.
I have come across all the Biggs family line history.
Yes William Martin Biggs was from Terre Haute, Vigo Co,
Indiana.
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Annie Cora Taylor is from Vigo Co, Indiana also.
Their children are;
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Charles Edwin Biggs b. Jun 28, 1869 in Douglas, Illinois
died. Mar 08, 1955. buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery,
Pershing County, Nevada.
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Alice Myrtle Biggs. b. Jul 13, 1872. Douglas, Illinois.
died. Sept. 11, 1908
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Mable Claire Biggs b. Jul 08, 1875, Pleasant Valley, Elko Co, Nevada. died. Oct. 08, 1953.
buried Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. [ my Grandmother ].
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Cecil Verner Biggs. b. Mar. 08, 1877, Pleasant Valley, Elko
County, Nevada. died. Oct. 30, 1940, buried in the
lone Mountain Cemetery, Pershing Co, Nevada.
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Bertie Biggs. b. Aug. 25, 1880. Pleasant Valley, Elko,
County, Nevada. died Jun. 06, 1883. buried I beleive
in Elko County.
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Here is what you are looking for, this information:
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Cecil Verner Biggs. married Helen Dorthy Lange on Oct. 11, 1911 in San Francisco,
California. She was born Apr. 20,1889
in Germany. She died, Feb. 27, 1928. buried in Lone Mountain
Cemetery, Pershing County, Nevada. Lovelock is the county
seat.
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Their children are;
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Carroll Verner Biggs b. Feb. 06, 1913 Lovelock. d. Jan 21,
1989. Lone mountain Cem.
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Bonnie Dorothy Biggs. Aug. 11, 1914 Lovelock, d. Sep. 09, 1998 in Sacramento, Ca. buried
Winnemucca Cemetery,
Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada, Noble family plot.
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GRACE ELEANOR BIGGS. b. Feb. 03, 1917 Lovelock, d. Jan. 05,
1986. married Clayton Charles Campbell. Jul. 31, 1937.
Grace 2nd marriage to John Lamb. Sep. 11, 1965. Grace changed spelling of name to Grayce
as a teenager.
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Arthur Eugene Biggs. b. Aug. 30, 1918. d. Nov 28, 1989.
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Bobby Binton Biggs. b. Nov. 04, 1920 Lovelock. Apr. 18, 1988
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Thelma Sunshine Biggs. b. Aug. 21, 1922 Lovelock. d. Jan. 19, 1976. buried in Lone
Mountain Cem.
She was known as Sunny.
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Charles Richard Biggs. b. Feb. 24, 1924, Lovelock. d. Nov. 20, 1956. Never married.
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When their mother died in 1928, all the children were placed in the Nevada Childrens Home
[ Orphanage ] in the State
Capital, Carson City, Nevada.
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Now send me your snail mail address, and I will mail all the History of the Biggs family
on to you. I am now making up copies for several Biggs decendants.
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grave site, death date and where on William Martin Biggs. Well he was under foot all
these years, only I didn't know it. the story about that is very
interesting, it will be told in the Biggs Family History.
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I need your mailing address in ortder to send this to you.
Good Luck.
Donald B. Jeakins
P.O.Box 2036
Fallon, Churchill Co, Nevada.89407
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