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.

William Huckleberry

Adeline Huckleberry is my great great grandmother. She married Benjamin Griffith in 1850 so she is on the Census with her husband not her parents. She died between 1870 and 1880 so there is no death certificate. I have not found where she is buried.

I found this article
http://myindianahome.net/gen/switz/records/history/Sigmon.html which gives the name of Adeline's sister as Lucinda. (However, I think it is Laurinda.) She died in 1902. I just got Laurinda's death certificate and it gives the name of her Father as William Huckleberry and her Mother's maiden name as Butchdnenon born in Indiana. So the last name can't possibly be right. By looking at rootsweb and myindianahome.net, I believe the last name is Buchanan.

William has either two or three wives. Not sure if Adeline and Laurinda have the same Mother as they are nine years apart in age. But at least I have the Father's name.

Random info from my last two library visits

Sometimes you find something really cool at the library and sometimes you just don't. I think these are "don't" visits.

I have ordered 3 microfilms from Family Search. I am waiting and not very patiently (Patient doesn't go with my red hair. And btw, never pray for patience, I did that I few times and then wound up in the grocery lines from hell!)
The 3 microfilms I ordered:
Cemeteries of Carroll County, Kentucky
Marriage and death notices from Switzerland County, Indiana newspaper
Marriage records of Switzerland County

This started out as looking for Griffith and Huckleberry however the Lewis and Leachman families were in Carroll County, Kentucky and I just figured out my husband's Brooks family was in or near Carroll County.

Meanwhile I found a few things ....

Switzerland County Will Records
Lavina J. Griffith will dated 12/28/1893 received 5/21/1895
sons Nelson Griffith and Thomas Griffith both deceased

Thomas Sigmon will dated 10/31/1882 Received 2/5/1883
wife Rachel Sigmon, daughters Elizabeth Sigmon, Ann Eliza Protsman and Antoinette Protsman

Mount Zion Cemetery, Craig Township
William (1824 - 1888) and Lorinda (1823-1902) Brindley
(So let's assume if it says Lorinda on the headstone that is her name and not Lucinda.)
Same cemetery
Mary Malissa Madary wife of George D and only daughter of Wm and L. Brindley d 8/1/1887 aged 22 y 10 m 27 d

Eight Huckleberry (various spellings) marriages in Clark County, Indiana from 1891 to 1901. So then are the Clark County ones related to my Switzerland County Huckleberrys? Which at the moment consists of 2 people, Adeline, my great great grandmother and her sister Lorinda (not Lucinda.)

Sevier County Tennessee cemeteries
Evans Chapel ( Locust Ridge) Mary Shamblin Valentine 1827 - 1885
Aaron Profitt Cemetery Judy Shamblin May June no years listed

Hillcrest Cemetery Bradley County, Tenn
Shamblin , Ida Lee Duggan
Shamblin, Arthur N.
Shamblin, James C.
Shamblin, Vivia Ruth Goins
Shamblin, Chassie

from Carroll County, KY Vital Statistics
8 Lewis babies between 1852 and 1859. Proud parents Stephen and Matilda Lewis, John and Sarah Lewis, Merit and Sarah Lewis, TL and Malinda Lewis

Swiss Settlement of Switzerland County Indiana
In 1870 Joshua Griffith was elected County Treasurer for 2 years from 9/1/1871.
In 1874 Francis M. Griffith was elected County Treasurer for 2 years from 9/1/1875
Wonder if this is the same person as the Hon. F. M. Griffith pictured in Pauline's scrapbook?