Saturday, March 8, 2008

Some Sigmon Family History

I found an article on http://www.myindianahome.net/ entitled "Some Sigmon Family History"
written by Olive Clements Cotton for the Vevay newspaper in 1944.

John Sigmon b. Viriginia June 6, 1784 married Rachel Richards b. November 26, 1793. They have seven kids.
1. Mary "Polly" married William Griffith (her first cousin)
William Griffith dies, Polly marries William Gray. It probably is convenient to have both your husbands with the same first name. :)
2. Thomas married Rachel Lewis (his cousin)
3. Larkin married Mary "Polly" Gray
4. Julia Ann married Jacob Lewis on May 5, 1841 (grandparents of lady who wrote the article)
5. Catherine "Cassie" youngest by quite a bit born September 8, 1840 married John Protsman, Jr.
6. John R. married Louise Ogle
7. Jesse never married


John Sigmon's sister was Katie she married Jackson Griffith. Katie and Jackson have two sons. William, who marries his cousin Mary "Polly" Sigmon and Joshua. Joshua marries Caroline Vernon and becomes the pastor of Long Run Baptist Church.

Mary "Polly" Sigmon and William Griffith have two sons, Benjamin and William, Jr.
Benjamin married Adeline Huckleberry, they are my great great grandparents. Benjamin and Adeline have 5 kids: Ann Mariah, who went blind from scarlet fever, John, Albert, Mary, Almira (my great grandmother) and Gertrude "Gertie. " My cousin said Gertie worked at the orphanage in Sand Spring, Oklahoma. She did not know if she ever married or had children.

Mary "Polly" Sigmon and her second husband, William Gray have John, Mary Ann and Isaac.

I think this is correct. Parts of the article are hard to follow and some of it mentions people I cannot match up with anyone. The Indiana marriage records, http://208.119.135.17/db/in_marriages_1850/marriages_search.asp
show a Polly Sigman married to a John Griffith not William, but maybe John is his middle name. And there is a Polly Griffith who marries William Gray a few years later. I'm still not sure who William Griffith, Jr. (Benjamin's brother) married.

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