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What surnames are you interested in researching?: Watkins, Miller, Pigg, Carr, Stewart, Honn, Coon, Stovall, Fontana

What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?: US, Italy

What is your level of genealogy knowledge?: Advanced Family History Researcher

At 11:32pm on December 19, 2011, Rosemary Taylor said…: Hello Jessica, I finally found a lead on a John Pigg who sold land in 1850-51, Alabama, and he might be my man!
Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, USA
160 acres. Military script warrant. John Pigg, Pvt., Capt . Rofs (Ross' ?), 4th Regiment Illinois Volunteers. Land assigned to Thomas Adams Sansford. note: Mexican -American War? It does not say.
(forgive me for using copy and paste)
John Pigg's mother was a resident of Illinois in the 1840's, where John may have volunteered as a soldier. His mother remarried about this time. John Pigg's 1850 census in Hardin Co., TN says his 2 young daughters were born in Alabama. In 1860, he was in Pemiscot Co., Missouri, in 1865 married again to Malinda Ward of New Madrid, Missouri, and in 1870, in Greene Co., Indiana, next to Robert Pigg, his brother, where he seems to have died.
I do not know why he assigned his military script land to Sansford, whether for money or from a relationship. That surname rang a bell. Directly behind my grandfather's grave in Kansas is a tombstone that says Sandford. It is in a photo I took of the grave. John Pigg was my grandfather's grandfather. So far I have found no relationship to Sansford/Sandford.
I have found no relationship of this John Pigg to the other Pigg in Alabama, but maybe there is one? .

At 7:45pm on June 13, 2010, Rosemary Taylor said…: I have found nothing on Pigg in Alabama. I did find the name Serena (with different spellings) showing up a generation or so earlier in the Womack family, which my Pigg family is related to. My family seemed to have been in White and Warren Counties in Tennessee. I think there was a Womack in Lauderdale or adjacent county. I can't find much.

At 11:32pm on April 27, 2010, Rosemary Taylor said…: new link to my Pigg info: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/14759069/person/158389879 You can go back from this point

At 9:32pm on January 24, 2010, Rosemary Taylor said…: PUBLIC TREE AT ANCESTRY.COM - PIGG FAMILY TREE

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/14759069/family?fpid=

I don't know how well the link works. It is named Pigg Family Tree, but has other surnames as well. I don't know if the information in Tennessee is correct, but I will put it up, with a note. The correct info has documents. I'm still working on this.

At 11:59pm on January 22, 2010, Rosemary Taylor said…: The children's names in your family are almost the same as the names I have for the sibling's of my John Pigg. This needs to be explored.
I am putting up a public tree at Ancestry.com, which non-members can access. I will put the link on my homepage.
Please be patient as it takes time to add information, and longer to add documents. My older Pigg information may have errors, but I need to put up something so maybe we can all figure out who belongs to which family.

At 8:29pm on January 22, 2010, Rosemary Taylor said…: Have you looked to find out if Nimrod Pigg is the person you seek?

At 10:31pm on December 7, 2009, Rosemary Taylor said…: I just joined the Tishomingo Co, Mississippi group looking for Serena Pigg. I left a posting there.

At 11:31pm on November 28, 2009, Rosemary Taylor said…: Welcome to Genealogy Wise and the Pigg Group.