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Surnames: Diggins
Classification: Query
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I am researching my family ancestry and have found out that my great-great grandfather,
Benjamin Jeremiah "Jerry" Diggins, was a worker in the silver mines of Virginia
City circa 1860's or 70's. Jerry Diggins came to the U.S. from County Kerrey,
Ireland, in 1861, and served with the Union Army for a few months during the Civil War,
after he was discharged for poor health he went to Virginia City where he met my
great-great grandmother, Anne C. McElligot, and married her. Their daughter, Catherine
(Kate) Fredericka Diggins (born in 1872), married Robert Charles Purcell in Alameda County
California in 1891. Their son, my grandfather, Clement Alexander Purcell, was born on
November 22, 1902.