Dear Elisa,
May be coincidental, but my paternal ggrandfather Alvis Alexander Pigg
found on Indian Territory now McCurtain County, OK. 1900 census shows
him to be born in MS. His father un-named b TN and mother b MS.. One of
my grandmother's brothers was named George Wesley Pigg b Jan 1873 AR.
We have no documentation tracing this Pigg line farther back.
We would like very much to see the 1850 MS. census you speak of. If
that census format follows the format of the 1900 census we would know
Mary's and her father and mother's birth states.
This Mary Pigg may be my gggrandmother and if so I could at least fill
in Alvis's siblings that were at home in 1850. We have a tentative
birth date for Alvis A. Pigg as Jan 1852 or 53 which would be impossible
as your Mary Pigg was a widow in 1850. Also Mary would be about 52 when
Alvis was born. Not impossible but unlikely as frontier motherhood was a
hard life. Alvis could not read nor write and we find considerable
inconsistencies in family lore. So if Alvis is not Mary's son perhaps
Mary's deceased husband had a brother. Which is more likely.
We find in the Government Land Office records in MS. a Mary A. Pigg
being issued a land patent
for 80.83 acres at
Aliquot
# 1, Parts E½NW, Blk 13/, Twnshp 9-N, Range 5-E, Fract. Sect.
No, Meridian-
CHOCTAW, State MS., Counties MADISON and SCOTT, Survey Nr. --- in
1847.
We find William Pigg issued 40 acres October 8, 1835 again in Madison.
Could be Mary's husband. When I get time I'll find the proximity of
these two parcels. I know a web site that locates these.
This was not Leake co. MS..
We find your David L. Pigg taking 120 acres in Leake Co. in October 1,
1859, then 40 more acres in October 1, 1859.
But there is a James Pigg that was issued 8 parcels totaling 703 acres
in Madison and Hinds Counties from 1829 to 1840
Please relate your source for this Leake co. MS census.
Best regards,
Message:
1850 census of Leake co. MS shows widowed mother
Mary (maiden name
unknown)Pigg b. 1800 TN, children: Augustus Pigg
b.1831 MS, David L.Pigg 1833, Eliza
Pigg b.1835 and George W. Pigg b.1839. Father b.
in Tennesse. What are the parents
names? Any info on this family appreciated. Elisa
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