Samuel Wiggins and Sylvia Harris

Question

 

Samuel Wiggins

1830–1916

BIRTH DEC 1830 • South Carolina

DEATH 06 APR 1916 • Limestone, Alabama

 

I have a father listed as J.B. Wiggins born 1800 in South Carolina ( He was a slave owner I believe a few slave records show for him) Samuel was African-American. I am looking to find more information on Samuel Wiggins his possible father J.B. (I honestly believe his name might have been John or Joseph) and a possible mother but if she were a slave that could be hard.

Silvia or Sylvia Harris

BIRTH ABT 1845 • Alabama

DEATH Unknown

There is a marriage record showing that she married Samuel Wiggins (both a Freedman and Freedwoman) 26 Jan 1867 • Henry, Pickens, Alabama, USA. I just need help finding anything else about her anything at all.

 

Thank you.

 

Comments

Alexander, I was trying to find information.  The first thing I found was the marriage record you mentioned.  The original is not very clear, so I graphically enhanced it.  I just uploaded the result to Samuel Wiggins' profile.

It is going to take a better pair of eyes than mine and better skills at handwriting interpretation than I have to be sure, but it looks to me like the names are not the same as you have.  Samuel's last name looks like it starts with "Way" and I'm not sure of the rest.  His bride's first name looks like Silva and her last name looks like maybe Harsis, but I just don't know enough for my opinion to have any value here.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but until you nail down those names, it's not possible to look for anything more.

Answer 1

Sylvie Harris

United States Census, 1870

Name	Sylvie Harris
Event Type	Census
Event Year	1870
Event Place	Texas, United States
Gender	Female
Age	25
Race	Black
Race (Original)	B
Birth Year (Estimated)	1844-1845
Birthplace	Alabama
Page Number	56

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Birthplace
Lucus Harris		M	40	Texas
Sylvie Harris		F	25	Alabama

View the original document. The original may contain more information than was indexed.

United States Census, 1870

Household ID	416
Line Number	17
Affiliate Name	The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number	M593
GS Film number	000553088
Digital Folder Number	004267880
Image Number	00332

Citing this Record

"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLY-PWF : 17 October 2014), Sylvie Harris in household of Lucus Harris, Texas, United States; citing p. 56, family 416, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,088.