Daniel H. Wiggins (1780 - 1855)

Born 1780 in Dobbs County, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Ann Speare — married 1852 in Dale, Alabama, United States

Descendants

Died 21 Sep 1855 at about age 75 in Richmond, Henry, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Although Daniel Wiggins was not a rich man, he was yet prominent and well-respected, and wherever he ventured. Our original Alexander settlers into the old Sumter District were his friends in the latter 1700s, and on into the earlier half of the 1800s. When Daniel was an older teenager, almost an adult, he traveled with the family of Mrs. Frances (nee?) Alexander, and his mother into Sumter District, basically the area in and around modern-day Bishopville (incorporated 1888), Lee County, South Carolina.

Sometime between his mother's death in 1822, and before 1825, Daniel moved on to Washington County, Georgia, located not too far from Augusta. Around 10 years after that, he was living in a log cabin in the now-defunct town of Richmond, the original county seat of the original Henry County, AL. They later moved the seat to Abbeville. Daniel stayed there, and was buried there, in a populated cemetery governed by Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, once known as "The Wiggins Church." The old Richmond is now Grimes in Dale County, Alabama, and is across the road from Napier Field, a Dothan-area airport. Daniel was buried in the church's cemetery, reportedly the first, or one of the first.

Just from amateur deduction, I'm thinking that Daniel was probably responsible for many of families in old Sumter District moving into that section of Alabama. Not long before that, the area had been part of the Mississippi Territory, so with the Creek Indians now forced out by the United States Government, the land was going for, I'm told, a $1.25 an acre. The Creeks had inhabited the lands on both sides of the well-known Chattahoochee River that flows between and borders Georgia and Alabama. Three known tribes along the Chattahoochee were Coweta, Tallassee, and Muscogee. Columbus, Georgia on the Chattahoochee is in Muscogee County, and as another side note, there is a Muskogee County in Oklahoma, only spelling differently.

More than three of John and Mary "Polly" Woodham Alexander's kids moved into or temporarily resided in the Henry and Dale counties area in the first half of the 1800s. The only two to continue to lived in that area were James Irvin Alexander, Sr., his wife, the former Elizabeth Jane Stokes, and Mary Alexander, who married R. McGee, and lived in Dale County, one of those counties made out of the original Henry County. She lived in or near to the Rocky Head Community, not too far from Coffee County, Alabama.

Daniel's mother was a daughter of Edward Woodham Sr., and sister of Edward Jr., Mary "Polly" Woodham's father.

There were no children to the marriage to Ann Speare

The following note was copied from the profile of Daniel's daughter Nancy's husband. Redden Barwick. "Among the earliest settlers in Center Church Community of Henry County was Redden Barwick, the youngest of fifteen children of William Barwick B. Ireland and his wife, Elizabeth Phillips Barwick, "Black Dutch". After his (William's) death, and that of his wife, most of the children moved to GA, AL and MS. (after 1822) he (Redding) lived with his brother, Stephen, for two or three years in Abbeville District, SC., then went to Washington Co, GA, with other brothers, came to what is now the Cureton's Bridge section of Henry Co., in 1827. He cleared land here, boarded with Bill Whiddon on the Choctawhatchee, then went back to Sandersville, GA and married Nancy Wiggins...and returned with his wife and her parents, Daniel and Susannah Wiggins. A brother, Samuel Barwick, came about the same time to below Newton, in Dale Co. A log house built by Redden in 1827-1828 on his land, later owned by his son-in-law, John Seaborn Lisenby, and now owned by the Mills, is still standing and used as a tenant house.""History of Hendry Co, AL" pgs 157-158

findagrave record at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery Grimes Dale County Alabama, USA

Note

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Sources

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The Family Records of Daniel Wiggins by Clarence Wilkinson

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