Samuel B. Wiggins

Research notes:

• Some genealogies show him as Samuel BAKER Wiggins. Seeking documentation of his middle name.
• According to Agness Wiggins Gunter (Descendants of Captain John Wiggins of Martin County, North Carolina, 2000), he died October 13, 1872. However, at least one court record (Carroll vs. Wiggins, Ashley Circuit Court, November, 1875) shows him living in January, 1873. We know he had died by March, 1874 (Ashley County Probate record). The compiler is seeking documentation of his death date.
• W.F. Combs was administrator of his estate. This is likely his son-in-law William Faulker Combs.

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Copiah County, Mississippi Marriages

Dunham, Rachael A. - Wiggins, Samuel B. - 14 Jan 1836

Wiggins, Samuel B. - Etheridge, Mrs. Catherine - 20 Apr 1841

http://copiah.msghn.org/marriages_u.html

Claiborne County, Mississippi Marriages

Wiggins, Samuel B. Wade, Mary F. .Apr 16, 1845

http://msahgp.genealogyvillage.com/MSMarriages/msw8.html

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1850 CARROLL PARISH, Louisiana

63 Wiggins, Samuel 38 m SC planter 9000

63 Wiggins, Mary F. 25 f TN

63 Wiggins, Laura H. 3 f LA

63 Wiggins, Lavena W. 1 f LA

63 Hutchinson, B. W. 26 m NC overseer

63 Jones, Mary A. 18 f NC

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJQ-DQ5

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1860 US Census, Carter Township, Ashley, Arkansas, United States

S B Wiggins M 48 South Carolina

Mary F Wiggins F 37 Tennessee

Laura H Wiggins F 14 Louisiana

Mary G Wiggins F 7 Arkansas

S B Wiggins M 4 Arkansas

John L Wiggins M 1 Arkansas

T P Mason M 50 Alabama mechanic

Wm Hagler M 25 Alabama overseer

Jas Shelton M 30 Tennessee mechanic

Richd Sheppard M 20 Mississippi laborer

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M87B-WQR

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S.B. Wiggins married [Mrs.] Emma A. Cole, 18 Sep 1864, Harrison County, Texas

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV14-PLQH, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK8Y-C9ND, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXQL-W6T, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX7Q-TPN, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2MW-CK2, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2MW-CKG, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2MW-DVX

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1870 US Census, White Twp., Ashley County, Arkansas

Samuel Wiggins M 58 South Carolina dry goods merchant

Emma Wiggins F 42 Alabama keeping house

Mary Wiggins F 16 Arkansas attending school

Samuel Wiggins M 10 Arkansas attending school

John Wiggins M 8 Arkansas attending school

Henry Wiggins M 6 Arkansas attending school

Elizabeth Cole F 10 Louisiana attending school

Larken Sleadman M 18 Louisiana saw mill laborer

Squire Tiler black M 11 Arkansas domestic servant

Augustus Wood M 24 Georgia dry goods merchant

Sarrah Wood F 21 Mississippi keeping house

Walter Wood M 2 Arkansas at home

Susan Wood F 0 Arkansas at home

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNHB-CLF

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Three brothers (Ricks B.Wiggins, Samuel B.Wiggins and John Wiggins) got land grants in Copiah Co,MS in 1840. Ricks died soon after, and Samuel and John moved down to Louisiana and Arkansas.

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Re: Wiggins of Copiah County Ms

By Virginia Weeks Warbington August 27, 2001

I have been through the Copiah Co., MS 1840 Census several times already and cannot find an enumeration for Samuel B. Wiggins, although land records place him there during 1840 and 1841. I did, however, discover that he was one of the census takers for the county that year, with the name "S. B. Wiggins" across the top of numerous pages of the census, as well as the title sheet. The best I can figure is his household was on one of those pages that is so blurred, as to make his name unreadable.

The only Wiggins family I have found in all of Copiah Co. was headed by Mary E. Wiggins on pg. 104: "1 male 5 & under 10, 1 male 10 & under 15; 1 female under 5, 1 female 5 & under 10, 1 female 20 & under 30."

Samuel B. Wiggins began buying Federal lands in Ashley Co., Arkansas 15 May 1852 and contined to do so at intervals thru 15 May 1876, for a total of 839.87 acres.

[note: later records may be Samuel B. Wiggins's son of the same name]

http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/wiggins/2211/

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Ashley County, Arkansas - Deserted Villages

Marie Saline Landing on the Ouachita just below the mouth of Marie Saline river was a most important village because of its location on the only stream furnishing navigation the year round. All kinds of boats went up and down the Ouachita. Only small boats could make it up and down Marie Saline and Bayou Bartholomew and these only during high water. It became a community village only after people began to settle that part of the county along the overflow area from the rivers. Most of these early settlers lived along the Hamburg-Marie Saline Landing road and the north and south trail running from Fountain Hill and Longview south to the Louisiana line and Extra Landing at the line. This route forked to the left for the Louisiana trace leading to Monroe and to the right for Petersburg and Sulphur Springs in later years. In 1849 when the first assessment of property was made for the county, there was only one land owner, John B. Wilson, in this area. He owned 80 acres of land in Township 19 South, Range 9 West, and four slaves of assessable age, 5 to 60 years, with which to farm it. Other early settlers were the Bells, Halls, Gillespies, Williamses, Switzers, Hundleys, Bellas, Conners and Wimberleys - Williams had a gin and grist mill on his farm. This was a horse powered gin and would take about a bale of cotton a day. By 1860 there were 56 families in Marie Saline township. There was one merchant, J. D. Christian, one teacher. D. C. McElvey and one blacksmith, J. W. Looney, two carpenters, Jonathan Britt and J. Sutton, two mechanics, I. D. Clark, and C. W. Stevens, two gentlemen, E. O. Hundley and A. H. Wimberly, three clerks, C. A. Calahan, James Barnes and Smith Lawrence, four engineers, probably surveyors, J. W. Manning, G. M. Manning, A. A. Durham and Thomas McNeal, and six doctors or students to become such, W. J. Locke, W. E. Easter, who later moved to Hamburg and spent the balance of his life there, T. M. C. Hundley, Preston Smalley, W. H. Mobley and Deroty Jackson. The rest of the population were farmers. A gentleman was a property owner who only managed his estate.

It was a business center for all the county for incoming and outgoing shipments. Timber, cotton, corn, beeswax, pelts and other products were shipped from the landing and such goods as were necessary were imported through it. Early in 1853, Nathaniel M. Mulholland, who had been running the landing with Joseph D Christian as his partner and owning 119 acres and had the previous year bought 80 acres more at the site from James S. W. Ailes for $800, sold out his interest in the business to James A. Mason for $400 cash, a $600 draft on Savage, Williams & Company of New Orleans, due January 1, 1854, and a note executed by Mason and Joseph D. Christian for $400 due January 1, 1855. The draft on Savage, Williams & Company was secured by a deed of trust executed by both Mason and Christian on the 119 acres surrounding the landing. This draft was accepted and paid by the New Orleans company. April 2, 1853, Mulholland sold his slaves to Samuel B. WIGGINS for $400 cash. They were Haden, a negro boy age 15, Nat, a negro boy age 14, Henry, a negro boy age 13, Margaret, a negro woman age 25, and her child, Wade, age 3, the bill of sale being witnessed by Jno. M. Mulholland and D- L. Pippin, who then lived at the point on Marie Saline river now known as Stillions.

http://genealogytrails.com/ark/ashley/deserted_villages.html

Ashley County AR Archives History .....Administrators Accounts Current, 1858-1889 C-D

http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/ashley/history/other/administ12ms.txt

[excerpts related to Wiggins--see all records at link]

Brooks, John &#150 Apr 1860 &#150 page 32

For James Norris, S.B. Wiggins & Van H. Manning note for negros hire for 1860 due 1st Jany 1861 $225.00

For S.B. Wiggins, James Norris & Van H. Manning note for negros hire for 180 due 1st Jany 1860 $225.00

Total $450.00

Brooks, John &#150 Jan 1861 &#150 page 55

To additional negro hire for the year 1860, not included in former settlement

say S.B. Wiggins, V. Manning and J. Norris not for hire Vincent . Due 1st January 1861 $169.00

Dade, H.C. – Jul 1867 – page 223

Est H.C. Dade a/c ct

H.C. Dade vs S.B. Wiggins Judgment March 1/60 $4020.00

She also claims credits as follows:

Amount received on Lands on S.B. Wiggins note as per return a fif.. in circuit Court. $3807.00

received in lands on judgment on Wiggins, Hawkins & Nobles on fif… Circuit Court $60.40

Dade, H.C. –Oct 1869 – page 280

Elizabeth Dade as Executrix of H.C. Dade in this account current charges herself with balance as per Act. April 23rd 1869 $6481.23

And she claims credits as follows for:

Balance judgment against Wiggins $3960.00

Balance judgment against Wiggins, Noble & sons $300.00

Duckworth, Wm. – Jul 1860 – page 41

M.A. Duckworth Exr Wm Duckworth a/c ct

Judgment against S.B. Wiggins & R.W. Noble $1182.13

Int at 10 per ct from 23 Sep 1858 to 23 Apr 1860 $187.16

As per additional Inventory filed 24 Oct 1859 $1857.45

Account on Wiggins & Day $31.88

Duckworth, Wm – Apr 1863 – page 103

M.W. Duckworth Exr Wm Duckworth a/c ct

Voucher 18 Wiggins & Day $18.00

Balance judgment on Wiggins & Noble $292.59 $728.51

payments due from the estate of M. Thacker, 1865 and 1866: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/ashley/probate/1t.htm

payments due from the estate of Levi B. Stroope, 1865 and 1868: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/ashley/probate/1s.htm

see also: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/ashley/history/other/administ16ms.txt

United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen's Complaints

complaint against Samuel B Wiggins by Hannah Roberts

13 Oct 1866

Hamburg, Ashley, Arkansas, United States

Hannah Roberts, "colored defendant," is a sharecropper who had an agreement re: six acres of land on which she rented a house and was to plant with cotton, corn, and potatoes. She charges that Samuel B. Wiggins, "without cause or provocation," turned his horses and mules onto the crop, destroying it. The destroyed crop was judged to be worth thirty-four dollars, which was deducted from the rent due by Hannah Roberts.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QR-H9KZ

ASHLEY CO., ARK., FEDERAL LAND RECORDS

http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/ashley/land/ashley.txt

• WIGGINS MARY E 19 16S 7W 0 1895/11/26
• WIGGINS MARY E 19 16S 7W 80.21 1895/11/26
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 19 16S 7W 40 1856/09/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 20 16S 7W 40 1859/07/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 30 16S 7W 0 1852/05/15
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 30 16S 7W 80.09 1852/05/15
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 30 16S 7W 40.3 1857/07/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 30 16S 7W 40 1859/07/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 31 16S 7W 39.84 1852/05/15
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 31 16S 7W 40 1860/09/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 31 16S 7W 39.85 1860/10/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 32 16S 7W 80 1869/08/20
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 13 16S 8W 0 1856/09/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 13 16S 8W 0 1876/05/15
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 14 16S 8W 80 1860/04/02
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 22 16S 8W 80 1855/03/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 24 16S 8W 80 1856/09/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 24 16S 8W 40 1857/07/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 24 16S 8W 80 1876/05/15
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 25 16S 8W 0 1859/07/01
• WIGGINS SAMUEL B 25 16S 8W 80 1859/07/01

(some of these records appear to refer to his son)

Wiggins, S.B. – Mar 1874 – page 355

Est of S.B. Wiggins

W.F. McCombs Admr of S.B. Wiggins

DR

To sale of personal $134.25

CR

By paid auctioneer sale $1.00

By clerks fees V1 $17.88

By coms on $134.25 $70.50

$102.80

Bal down due Est. $31.45

Respectfully Submitted Mch 30/74, W.F. McCombs

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Wiggins, S.B. – Oct 1879 – page 406

S.B. Wiggins Est, W.F. McCombes Ad.

To amt due on last settlement $31.45

By cost pd Carroll vs Wiggins $22.50

By cost pd Dean Shff $17.50

To bal due admr $8.55

col 1 $40.00

Recorded Oct 30th 1879, E.L. Thomson Clk, Jackson , DC

http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/ashley/probate/1w.htm