THE BIGGS FAMILY
GENEALOGY
Complied and Edited by Judith Martin Handley, daughter of Ollie Lillian Biggs Martin.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Some of following Biggs Family Genealogy has been copied from the 1938 Official Program for the Biggs--Ballard--Broyles Reunion written by Dwight Moody Hoke, A.B., B.S., M.D. The paragraphs from the original text referring to the families of John Biggs, and Thomas Biggs, son of John Biggs, have been deleted here and will be printed in another section of this program.]
It is the boast of American society and civilization that men have risen to eminence in nearly all departments of life unaided by the advantages incidental to hereditary preferment. Never less, the people of this county do not fail to place proper value on respectable and illustrious lineage, and when a man in any way or through any circumstances has attained distinction in the world, there is a natural curiosity in the minds of his countrymen to know both his origin and the history of those from whom he has descended.
Thomas Biggs comes of a family illustrious in both England and America--one, as history attests, worthy of him as he was worthy of it. But his renown is due mainly to the part he himself has played both in peace and war, which has at once reflected honor on the memory of his ancestors and added to his own name a noble distinction of which his descendants may be justly proud.
To those who have the curiosity or desire to know "from whence came this Virginian," it is proper to state that his ancestry may be clearly traced to the Norman Conquest. The founder of the family, William Biggs, came originally from Hapsburg, Dominion of Germany, in the near vicinity of Amsterdam, Holland. He entered England with William the Conqueror, distinguished himself at the battle of Hastings, and acquired an estate in Essex.
A later member of the family, James Biggs, took part in the third Crusade, following Richard Coeur de Lion to Palestine, at the head of a company of "gentlemen cavaliers." He displaced great gallantry at the siege of Acre, and in return for his services was made Earl of Litchfield, while another estate, afterwards called "Ditchly" was bestowed upon the family. He was afterwards known by the familiar name or title of "Jerusalem Jim" Biggs. The armor worn by "Jerusalem Jim" Biggs in the crusade may still be seen in the Horse Armory of the Tower
of London.
The line of descendants of Thomas Biggs can be traced directly from John Riggs, a younger son of the Earl of Litchfield, who was the fifth from Sir Thomas Biggs, Knight of the Garter in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. This John Biggs, during the reign of Charles I of England, came to America as colonial aid under the governship of Sir William Berkley. He was possessed of a handsome person, fine talents, and popular manners, and by these qualities was enabled to secure influence over the colonists. He was accompanied to America by two brothers, James and William, and the tradition of the three brother emigrants had its inception at this time.
The country of Virginia, with its diversity of hill and dale, its mild climate, fertile soil, and attractive scenery at an early period won the attention of the Washington, Fairfax, Biggs, and other distinguished families, and they naturally established their homes in this attractive situation. Here they evinced many of the traits, characteristics, and customs of English society. Frequently they made the country ring with the merry sound of the horn and the hound as they swept through field and wood in pursuit of the Wiley fox or the bounding stag. In the life and habits of these people and others of like descent and customs was found the germ of that martial spirit which characterizes what is called "chivalry of Virginia."
Returning to the three brothers, John, William and James Biggs, who came to America before the Revolutionary War the exact date of which cannot be ascertained. John settled in Virginia and served three years in this war under General Washington, intimately known to the General and frequently served as his private barber. He married a lady in Virginia the name of whom I do not know. To them were born seven children: John, James, Moses, Thomas ( the writer's great-grandfather), William, Betsey, and Lydia.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Thomas was the great-great-grandfather of Guy, Mason, Lee, Ollie, Jimmy, Thomas and Waitman Biggs.]...
This brief genealogical record here given might have been greatly extended had it seemed desirable to present it in full detail the posts of honor obtained and the distinguished services performed by the ancestors of Thomas Biggs. The few facts we have stated will suffice to show the prominent position held by the Biggs in England, and their essential influence and importance in the colonial history of Virginia and in the struggle through which the independence of America was achieved. Always on the patriotic side, and doing noble duty alike in civic life and on the battlefield, they stand high among the leaders in that series of great events through which the fetters of tyranny were broken and another star added to the galaxy of civilized nations. Alike in England and America this family has always occupied an honorable position and Is high esteem, and the pages of its history are nowhere sullied by a deed of which any of its members need to be ashamed...
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This ends the excerpts taken from Dwight Moody Hoke's Genealogy of the Biggs Family.]
As is stated in the genealogic record of the Biggs family as written by D. M. Hoke, M.D., the line of descendants of Augustus Lee Biggs can be traced directly from John Biggs. Dr. Hoke stated that John Biggs was the younger son of then Earl of Litchfield, who was the fifth from Sir Thomas Biggs, Knight of the Garter in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In that same record, it is stated that a James Biggs, known by the familiar name or title of "Jerusalem Jim" Biggs, was made Earl of Litchfield for his service in the third Crusade. It is not clear as to whether this James Biggs was the father of John, William and James Biggs, or an earlier member of the family.
What is known is that three brothers, William, James and John, came to America before the Revolutionary War. John, the youngest of the "Three Brothers" settled in Virginia John would be the first of the direct ancestors of Augustus Lee Biggs to come to this country from England. is not known, but it is documented that they had seven Children (five boys and two girls): John, James, Moses, Thomas (the great-grandfather of Augustus Lee Biggs}, William, Betsy, and Lydia.
William, the eldest of the in what is now Maryland. James, the other of the "Three Brothers" settled in Kentucky or Tennessee The true record of where he settled has not been found.
The Family of JOHN BIGGS
The youngest of the three Biggs brothers that arrived in America prior to the American Revolution was the great-great-grandfather of Augustus Lee Biggs. As was stated in Dr. Hoke's account of the Biggs family, John served in the Revolutionary War. His name is listed on the Revolutionary War Stone in the Court House Lawn in Pearisburg, Giles County, Virginia. His name is first listed in the 1810 Files County Census. According to the records he would have been 59 years old. He was listed as having 1 male, 10-16 years of age, 1 male, 10-26, and 1 male, 45 and up; 1 female, 10-15, I female, 45 and up; no slaves. It appears from this record that perhaps his wife was still living and that two sons and one daughter were still living at home in 1810.
The 1815 census tax list of Giles County, Virginia, lists two white males over 16, no slaves, four horses, five cattle (Walkers Creek, Rye Hollow, East side of New River and Sinking Creek).
According to the Giles County Virginia History--Families book, in 1821 John Biggs was 70 years old, served in the Revolutionary War, enlisted as a private under Captain John Smith in the year of 1778 in the 17th Virginia Regiment commanded by Ben. Broadhead. A slight conflict in age is recorded in the Giles County Court records showing John Biggs to be 69 years of age in 1818 when he first applied for aid to Revolutionary soldiers. This information was recorded in 1982 in the Giles County Virginia History.
John had seven children, the first named after his father as John. He settled in Botetourt, Virginia. His wife's name is not known, but he had two sons, William and Allen. William died when quite young. Allen lived near Buckhannon during the Civil War, and at that time Augustus Chapman Biggs (grandfather of Augustus Lee Biggs) visited him and gave the record of the family to him that was used by Dr. D. M. Hoke in his account of the family. The second son was named James and he settled in Maumee County, Indiana He married a Dutch lady, and to this union two sons were born. Their names are not known. The third son of John Biggs was Moses and he settled in Jackson County, Missouri. This is all that is known about Moses. The fourth son, William, dies in infancy.
John Biggs had two daughters, Betsy and Lydia. Betsy married James Hackett and moved to Ohio during the pioneer days. Her sister Lydia married the brother of James Hackett and also moved to Ohio.
The son of John Biggs named Thomas was the great-grandfather of Augustus Lee Biggs. He was born in 1798 in Giles County, Virginia, was twice married, the first wife being Miss Juda Campbell and the second marriage to Miss Elizabeth Filliger. It was Thomas that first moved to Monroe County, West Virginia, in the year 1833.
The Family of THOMAS BIGGS, of John Biggs
Thomas Biggs, born in 1798 in Giles County, Virginia, and died on March 22, 1868. He lived to be 70 years old. He was first married to Juda "Susan" Campbell. To them were born two or three children, all girls. The last daughter, Sallie, is listed as the daughter of Thomas Biggs and Juda Campbell in one account, and the daughter of Thomas Biggs and his second wife Elizabeth Fillinger in another account. She will be considered the daughter of Thomas Biggs and his first wife, Juda, in this account.
According to one account the first daughter of Thomas Biggs and Juda Campbell was Melvine "Viney" who married a Dunn. They had one child, a girl named Sarah who married Charlie Crawford. A second account states that Melvine was the second daughter and that she never married, remained with her father until his death and then made her home with her half brother, A Chapman Biggs until her death. A second daughter, Delilah, married Henry Miller in 1840. They lived on Indian Creek, Monroe County, Virginia, now West Virginia, and had three children, all girls, named Mandy (married Marshall Mann), Caroline (married a Miller) and Rhoda (married Henry Young}. The third daughter was Sallie who married the Rev. John Hurry. They had one child, a girl named Mary Mr. Hurry left for Kentucky during the Civil War and it is supposed that he was killed in some of the great battles as he was never died three days after her brother Thomas of the same disease, scarlet fever.
The second marriage of Thomas Biggs was to Miss Elizabeth Fillinger, born in 1787 and died February 28, 1886, of near Pig Stoney Creek, Giles County, Virginia. Five sons and two (maybe three counting Sallie) daughters came to this union: Augustus Chapman (grandfather of Augustus Lee Biggs), William, Miles, Thomas, Harriett and Cilistine. In or near the year 1833 they moved to Monroe County, Virginia, to a place known as the "Dunbar Place" on a creek called Blue Lick, now West Virginia. They lived there until the year 1868. Thomas Biggs died of dropsy at the age of 70 years. His grown sons all served in the Civil War and his anxiety and care for his family was very great and trying during the turbulent war period. After his death, his wife Elizabeth lived with her son Chapman and was 99 years old at her death
Augustus Chapman, son of Thomas Biggs and Elizabeth Fillinger, was the grandfather of Augustus Lee Biggs. He was born April 8, 1829, and died July 23, 1921. He is buried at the Broyles Cemetery in Monroe County. On May 2, 1850, he married Lydia Broyles (in one account she is named Elizabeth). Lydia was the daughter of Zachariah Broyles and Susan Riner. She was born June 7, 1829, and died November 18, 1877. Augustus Chapman and Lydia Broyles had four children: Elizabeth Susan, James (father of Augustus Lee Biggs), Mary and John L. When Lydia died in 1877, Augustus Chapman remarried to Delilah Ballard on November 7, 1878. Delilah was born on September 19, 1746 and died May 20, 1910. Augustus Chapman and Delilah had two children, both boys: George Washington and Charles William.
Returning to the children of Thomas Biggs and Elizabeth Fillinger, there is William Biggs, the eldest son of Thomas Riggs. He married Jane Martin and one daughter was born to them, Eliza Martin. Eliza married Erastus LaFon. William died at Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia, of typhoid fever in 1862 in the Confederate Hospital and was buried there in the Myers Family Cemetery. The place was secured by his brother Augustus Chapman who was in the Confederate service at that place. Miles Riggs, the third son of Thomas Biggs, married Nancy Ann Lively in 1857. Three daughters resulted from this union: Agnes (married George Parker), Bettie (married George Daugherty first and John Jones second), and Lydie Francis (married Christopher C. Hake}. The fourth son of Thomas Biggs, Thomas II, died at the age of three years with scarlet fever. Wilson, the youngest son of Thomas Riggs, was born around the year 1839. He married Angeline Shultz and they had seven children: Ann (married Andy Canterbury), Jennie (married Shannon Baker), Rachel (married Wilson Ballard), Hugh (married Jane Helvy), Jasper (married Sallie Jackson}, Haley (married Clay Akers) and Francis (married John Sears). Harriet, a daughter of Thomas Biggs, married Taylor McGhee and they resided near Beckley, West Virginia. They had five children, four boys and one girl: Josie (married a Bostic), Henry (married a Meadows), James, Charles and the name of the fifth child not known. Cilistine, daughter of Thomas Biggs, married Charley Richardson first and had six children, three boys and three girls: Charley (married Susan Cox), Macey (married John Con), Andy (married a Wheeler), Wilson, Liza Jane (married Roland Grimmett), and Sarah Agnes Cilistine's second marriage to Lisha Raines and her third marriage to a Grimmett produced no children.
The Family of AUGUSTUS CHAPMAN BIGGS
Augustus Chapman Riggs was called "Uncle Chap" by almost everyone. He lived to be 91 years old. He was born in Giles County, Virginia, and according to the available records was about four years old when his father, Thomas Biggs, moved to Monroe County in 1833. He was married twice and all of his children were born in Monroe County on May 2, 1850, he married Lydia Broyles. They had four children, two boys and two girls: Elizabeth Susan, James Henry "Jim" (father of Augustus Lee Biggs), Mary Ann and John Lee. Augustus Chapman was again married one year after his first wife s death in 1877. On November 7, 1878, he married Delilah Ballard. Two children were born of this marriage, both boys: George Washington and Charles William.
The oldest child born to Augustus Chapman was Elizabeth Susan. She was born July 27, 1851, but the date of her death is not available. She was known as Susan. She married William "Will" Ballard and had nine children, only five of which grew up to adolescence, four boys and one girl. The first child was Janie who married Elmer Maddy. They had no children but it was on Jane Maddy's premises that the Three B's Reunions were held in the 1930's. The next child was John A., then Henry W. who married Leona Bennett. Henry had four children, one boy and three girls: Alta, Edna, Eleanor and Charles. The next child of Elizabeth Susan Biggs and Will Ballard was Charles Cleveland who married Lottie Light. They had three children, one boy and two girls: Hattie (married Fennimore Dunn, George and Elizabeth. The fifth child of Elizabeth Susan and Will Ballard was Wilbur. He married Bertie Craddock. They had three children. The first child, Mary, died, and then they had Willie and Edgar.
The next child of Augustus Chapman Biggs was James Henry "Jim", the father of Augustus Lee Biggs "Grandpa Jim" was born November 11, 1856 James married Sarah McGhee and only one son, Augustus Lee, was born. Augustus Lee Biggs married Sidney Miller and seven children were born, six boys and one girl: Guy (married Ethel Shires), Mason (married Genette Morris), Lee (married Gladys Porterfield), Ollie (married Hayes Martin), Jimmy died at 18 months of age, Thomas John (married Minnie Harvey first) and after her death (married Geraldine Richards Long}, and the youngest child of Augustus Lee and Sidney Miller was Waitman Barbe married Easol). These being the children of Augustus Lee will be listed individually as family groups.
Mary Ann was the next child of Augustus Chapman Biggs and Lydia Broyles. She was born October 10, 1859 and married Scott Campbell. They had eight children, three boys and five girls The first Jennie, married Thompson Miller. Jennie and Thompson had five children: William (married Clara Brown}, Clara (married John Doyle), Lillian (married John Saunders), and Thomas. The next child of Mary Ann and Scott Campbell was Frank who married Minnie Saunders. Frank Biggs and Minnie Saunders had four children: Laura (married Roy Jones), Robert, Alma (married Newman Evans), and a baby that died at birth. The third child of Mary Ann Biggs and Scott Campbell was Dorothy who married Dosey Garten. They had three children: Devannis, Russell and Anna The fourth child of Mary Ann was Lydia who married William Garten. They had three children: Thomas, Scott and Charles Leonard. The fifth child was Minnie who married Jim Thompson and they had IX children: Lee, Catherine, Russell, Otis, John, Ray, Vivian, Cecil and Minnie. The last three children born to Mary Ann Biggs and Scott Campbell were Etta, James and Roy, all single as of the 1938 Three B's Reunion.
The fourth child born to Augustus Chapman Biggs and Lydia Broyles was John Lee, born August 4, 1868 and died iv 1928. He was married to Mettie Jane Hern on June 18, 1890, and they had six children: Stella Lillian, Horace Everette (married Pricilla Dean Sarver and had two children, Emma Jane and Pricilla Dean), Clarence Edwin (married Ann Bee Palmer and had five children, Mildred Kathleen, Mary Llllian Savanna Brown, Clarence Edwin and Clarice Edna),
Rhoda Brooks (married L A. Hazelwood and had four children, Virginia Ruth, Russell Andrew, Leonard Lee and John Edward), Hilda Virginia (married Nathan Edward Brown and had five
children, Nathan Lee, Clarence Edward, Carl, Charles Everette, and Jack Walton), and the sixth child was named Chapman Lee (married Marie Louis Hobbs}.
The first child born to Augustus Chapman Biggs and his second wife, Delilah Ballard, was George Washington. He was born February 28, 1880, and died in 1924. On June 20, 1905, he married Hattie Johnson. George W. and Hattie had no children The second child born to Augustus Chapman and Delilah was Charles William, born July 31, 1886. He married Mrs. Lottie Mann-Rogers who had two children by a former marriage, Helen and Boyd. Charles W. and Lottie had no children of their own.
The following is an excerpt from a record given by Ollie Biggs Martin, as told to her daughter, Judith Martin Handley, on January 30, 1983:
I don't remember how many children Uncle Chap had. [EDITOR'S NOTE: Although Augustus Chapman Biggs was Ollie's great-grandfather, she called him "Uncle Chap" as did most everyone.] There was George--that was the one that was so smart, and Cleve, Henry and Charlie and my grandfather, Grandpa Jim [EDITOR'S NOTE: Cleve and Henry listed here were the children of Elizabeth Susan, eldest daughter of Augustus Chapman, not the children of Augustus Chapman.] I expect that was all of the boys, and then there were two girls--Susan and Mary. Susan married a Ballard and she lived across from the Pine Grove Church in a log cabin house. Everybody called her Aunt Susan, and I think the husband's name was #ill. Aunt Susan smoked a pipe all the time and always wore a big apron around her waist. The apron always had a pocket and she kept her corn cob pipe in it She was a tall, slender woman--most of the Biggs' were tall. George was a school teacher in Oak Hill--somewhere out in that area. He was Superintendent or something like that. Cleve was pretty well educated and lived over near Beckley somewhere, also. George married a woman named Hattie. Charlie was just like my daddy (Augustus Lee Biggs)--looked just like him. But I don't remember that Charlie ever married I don't remember much about Henry either. Aunt Mary married a Campbell--Scott Campbell. They lived
This concludes the summary of the family of Augustus Chapman Biggs, grandfather of Augustus Lee Biggs.
The Family of JAMES HENRY "JIM" BIGGS
James Henry "Jim" Biggs was the second child to Augustus Chapman Biggs and Lydia Broyles. He was born on November 11, 1856, and married Sarah McGhee. He had only one son, Augustus Lee Biggs, who married Sidney Jane Miller. Jim s" wife, Sarah, died in 1909 of what they called dropsy. She was short and heavily built. She and "Grandpa Jim" kept Augustus Lee and Sidney Miller's oldest son, Guy, until 1909 when Sarah died.
The following is an excerpt from an account given by Ollie Biggs Martin, daughter of Augustus Lee Biggs, as told to her daughter, Judith Martin Handley, on January 30, 1983:
I remember a lot about Grandpa Jim. He came to live with us after his wife died. He worked for people clearing land. He cleaned up brush and just cleared the land. It seems like he always had a job. He was really good. He could clean up a piece of land and have it really looking good in no time. He always had big stacks of brush when he was done. He liked to cut wood and he could carry in the biggest loads of stove wood you've ever seen. He would have it stacked so even--I always liked to see him carry it in. He could carry a big zinc bucket of water in each hand and fill them completely to the brim--and he'd never spill a drop. #e children always liked to watch him and we always wondered how he could do that. He always kept us in wood and water, and if anyone had a fireplace, he always kept a big fire. He could cut the biggest back logs and carry them in. Grandpa Jim and Sarah raised a girl named Angie. She worked out (kept house) for Hayley (not sure of the spelling, but pronounced Highlee) Akers. Angie had a baby out of wedlock. Grandpa Jim had always been a deacon in the church, but when they "churched" Angie, he never went back. [EDITOR'S NOTE: "Churched" meant that the church would not let you come back because you had sinned.] Grandpa Jim was a good man. Never heard him cuss in my whole like and never heard him tell a dirty story, either. He just didn't believe in it. I really don't remember much about my grandmother, Sarah. . .When I was born she was really looking forward to having a girl in the family and she was going to help take care of me since I was the only girl in the family. A year after I was born, however, she died... She must have been a good woman for my mother liked her a lot. They got along good.
The Family of AUGUSTUS LEE BIGGS
Augustus Lee Biggs was the only child of James Henry "Jim" Biggs and Sarah McGhee. His place of birth was probably at the old Biggs homestead at Pine Grove, near Lindside, West Virginia, but this is not documented. The exact date of birth may be on his grave stone where he is buried in the Broyles Cemetery in Monroe County, West Virginia, but he was probably born in the 1870's. Augustus Lee married Sidney Miller. They had seven children, six boys and one girl: Jimmy, Thomas and Waitman.
The following is an excerpt from an account given by Ollie Biggs Martin, to her daughter Judith Martin Handley, on January 30, 1983:
My father was Augustus Lee Biggs and I don t know where he was born. I don't know if he was born in Pine Grove or not, but he probably was. He was the son of James Henry Biggs and Sarah McGhee. They had only one son and that was my father. He was the only child...
My father, Augustus Lee Riggs, died when Patsy was three months old. [EDITOR'S NOTE: Patsy is Ollie s daughter. She was born July 10, 1933.] No, she wasn't quite that old. He died of Bright's Disease which was a kidney problem and there just wasn't much cure for a kidney problem. His mother, Sarah McGhee Biggs, died of dropsy which was also a kidney problem. I don't know anything about it--they just called it dropsy. My pappy was a horse man He could take a horse and make it do anything. They (the horses) really liked him because he was so kind and gentle with them. His dad was Grandpa Jim and he cleared land. You could call him a wood chopper. He didn't care a thing for horses that I know of. I don't know how my pappy got into horses. When he was young he always had a horse to ride and animals and I guess he just got into it that way. He hauled wood and groceries and the mail by horse.
Mammy was, well let's see, you want to know how many children they had? They had seven children--Guy was the oldest and he was raised by his grandparents, Grandpa Jim and Sarah up until he was about eight years old. That's about when Grandma died. Mason was next, then Lee, and then I was next. I don't know how come there was four years between me and Lee Then Jimmy was born after me, and he died when he was eighteen months old He's the one I loved so dearly. He had inner ear trouble You can't tell me that things don't stand out in a young person's mind. I really loved him. Not long after he died Tom was born and I don't remember ever taking to him like I did Jimmy. I was disappointed because Tom was so little. When I went to see him after he was born, I thought he would be the same size as Jimmy when he died. When I saw I just didn't care for that at all. I rocked Jimmy and fed him, and when he liked it he would always say "more". Tom couldn't talk and sit up when he was born, so I just didn't have any interest in him at all. Waitman was the last child. He was the biggest, ugliest baby you ever seen. My dad said that. He did. He said, "Look at this ugly little devil." HS wasn't that ugly. Waitman made the nicest looking one in the family when he grew up, but he was an ugly baby.
Mammy never did get our supper before 9 o'clock. She'd go visitin' and stay all day--I'd go with her--and then we didn't get to eat until so late. Pappy didn't ever seem to care. Sometimes he wasn't home anyway If he had a timber job, he stayed away. If there was anyplace in the county, Sammy knew about it. Mammy always loved to pick apples for people in the fall. she would get apples for picking apples. Sammy had a kind heart. Mammy had an apple tree and everybody in the county got a mess of apples. If anybody new came into the county, she always shared what she had with them.
Here's a funny story about Sammy. Uncle Bert was having a wood getting up at his place in Adkin's Holler (now Lot of Rock Farm in Wikel, Monroe County, West Virginia). At a wood getting everybody would get wood all day and then that night everybody would gather for string music and just a party. Well, at Uncle Bert s party, Waitman was just a baby and he just wouldn't stop crying. We just couldn't get him to shut up and Maw got aggravated She said, "Waitman, if you don't shut up I'm going to give you a dose of California." She meant to say chloroform! Everybody got a big kick out of that. Sammy often got things mixed up. one time somebody was talking about the Knights of Apithius and she called them the Kit Nips of Philadelphia.
THIS ENDS THE GENEALOGIC SUMMARY OF THE ANCESTO RS OF THE CHILDREN OF AUGUSTUS LEE BIGGS: GUY, MASON, LEE, OLLIE, JIMMY, THOMAS AND WHITMAN. EACH OF THESE CHILDREN WILL NOW BE LISTED SEPARATELY WITH ALL THE MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES. THIS 15 THE fIRST TIME THAT AN ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO GATHER THIS INFORMATION, AND BECAUSE OF THIS THERE MAY BE ERRORS AND OMISSIONS IT IS HOPED THAT A MORE COMPLETE AND ACCURATE ACCOUNTING OF EACH OF THESE FAMILY GROUPS WILL BE REPORTED AT THE 1985 BIGGS FAMILY REUNION.