John Samuel Huggins was born March 30, 1810, in the Darlington District and died April 10, 1879, in Williamsburg County, S.C. He was the son of George Huggins(1778-1857) and Catherine Letitia Montgomery Huggins(1780-1827) and the grandson of Capt. John Huggins(1748-1825), who Commanded a troop of Cavalry in the Britton's Neck Regiment of Militia under Col. Hugh Giles in General Francis Marion's Brigade during the Revolutionary War, and Elizabeth White Simmons(1755-1907).
Reverend John Samuel Huggins was an ordained Methodist minister, a farmer and land owner, a blacksmith and also an inventor who invented the first mechanical cotton planter in 1858 & a copy of the patent (#20432) for this cotton seed planter is recorded at Clemson University - SC Inventors. He continued to make improvements to this invention. . This implement was used through the South and the design is still utilized in the manufacture of seed planters.
He is by far one of the most colorful figures in the Huggins Family. He was an ordained minister of the Methodist Faith and was pastor at the Muddy Creek Methodist Church at the time of his death.
He married ZilphIa Ham (1810-1971) about the year 1829. She was a native of Darlington County, where she shared in the division of her father's estate. They had 13 children.
Rev. John Samuel Huggins once invited the entire church home with him for dinner. Another human interest story was the naming of his last daughter. It seems that many of his church family wished to name the child. To satisfy all, he named this addition, thirteen names, attaching to the end, Queen of South Carolina.
He died without a will. The estate of John Samuel Huggins, Williamsburg County, was administered by his son, William Sylvester Huggins.
He was an ordained Methodist Minister, Farmer and Inventor and spent the last 10 years of his ministry in Williamsburg County.
Sources: John Huggins I of Sea Wee Bay by Otis Prince 1965; correction: He was a Methodist minister and was pastor of the Methodist Church at Muddy Creek, not Baptist, as stated by Otis Prince. Williamsburg County Probate Records, family documents; House of Hughes and Dunehoe and Their Many Relatives by Rebecca Hughes Dunehoe; Records of Mrs. Klugh Nedo Huggins. Records of Nancy Prosser.
Burial site not known at this time. Two family references state that he is buried at Muddy Creek. He was a minister at the Ebenezer Methodist Church at the time of his death. Have found no grave marker for him or his wife, Zilphia Ham Huggins. In his son's obituary in 1914, the following is written: "it was his request that he be buried in an old style, plain way as his father and mother had been interred"
Reverend John Samuel Huggins was an ordained Methodist minister, a farmer and land owner, a blacksmith and also an inventor who invented the first mechanical cotton planter in 1858 & a copy of the patent (#20432) for this cotton seed planter is recorded at Clemson University - SC Inventors. He continued to make improvements to this invention. . This implement was used through the South and the design is still utilized in the manufacture of seed planters.
He is by far one of the most colorful figures in the Huggins Family. He was an ordained minister of the Methodist Faith and was pastor at the Muddy Creek Methodist Church at the time of his death.
He married ZilphIa Ham (1810-1971) about the year 1829. She was a native of Darlington County, where she shared in the division of her father's estate. They had 13 children.
Rev. John Samuel Huggins once invited the entire church home with him for dinner. Another human interest story was the naming of his last daughter. It seems that many of his church family wished to name the child. To satisfy all, he named this addition, thirteen names, attaching to the end, Queen of South Carolina.
He died without a will. The estate of John Samuel Huggins, Williamsburg County, was administered by his son, William Sylvester Huggins.
He was an ordained Methodist Minister, Farmer and Inventor and spent the last 10 years of his ministry in Williamsburg County.
Sources: John Huggins I of Sea Wee Bay by Otis Prince 1965; correction: He was a Methodist minister and was pastor of the Methodist Church at Muddy Creek, not Baptist, as stated by Otis Prince. Williamsburg County Probate Records, family documents; House of Hughes and Dunehoe and Their Many Relatives by Rebecca Hughes Dunehoe; Records of Mrs. Klugh Nedo Huggins. Records of Nancy Prosser.
Burial site not known at this time. Two family references state that he is buried at Muddy Creek. He was a minister at the Ebenezer Methodist Church at the time of his death. Have found no grave marker for him or his wife, Zilphia Ham Huggins. In his son's obituary in 1914, the following is written: "it was his request that he be buried in an old style, plain way as his father and mother had been interred"
John Samuel Huggins was born March 30, 1810, in the Darlington District and died April 10, 1879, in Williamsburg County, S.C. He was the son of George Huggins(1778-1857) and Catherine Letitia Montgomery Huggins(1780-1827) and the grandson of Capt. John Huggins(1748-1825), who Commanded a troop of Cavalry in the Britton's Neck Regiment of Militia under Col. Hugh Giles in General Francis Marion's Brigade during the Revolutionary War, and Elizabeth White Simmons(1755-1907).
Reverend John Samuel Huggins was an ordained Methodist minister, a farmer and land owner, a blacksmith and also an inventor who invented the first mechanical cotton planter in 1858 & a copy of the patent (#20432) for this cotton seed planter is recorded at Clemson University - SC Inventors. He continued to make improvements to this invention. . This implement was used through the South and the design is still utilized in the manufacture of seed planters.
He is by far one of the most colorful figures in the Huggins Family. He was an ordained minister of the Methodist Faith and was pastor at the Muddy Creek Methodist Church at the time of his death.
He married ZilphIa Ham (1810-1971) about the year 1829. She was a native of Darlington County, where she shared in the division of her father's estate. They had 13 children.
Rev. John Samuel Huggins once invited the entire church home with him for dinner. Another human interest story was the naming of his last daughter. It seems that many of his church family wished to name the child. To satisfy all, he named this addition, thirteen names, attaching to the end, Queen of South Carolina.
He died without a will. The estate of John Samuel Huggins, Williamsburg County, was administered by his son, William Sylvester Huggins.
He was an ordained Methodist Minister, Farmer and Inventor and spent the last 10 years of his ministry in Williamsburg County.
Sources: John Huggins I of Sea Wee Bay by Otis Prince 1965; correction: He was a Methodist minister and was pastor of the Methodist Church at Muddy Creek, not Baptist, as stated by Otis Prince. Williamsburg County Probate Records, family documents; House of Hughes and Dunehoe and Their Many Relatives by Rebecca Hughes Dunehoe; Records of Mrs. Klugh Nedo Huggins. Records of Nancy Prosser.
Burial site not known at this time. Two family references state that he is buried at Muddy Creek. He was a minister at the Ebenezer Methodist Church at the time of his death. Have found no grave marker for him or his wife, Zilphia Ham Huggins. In his son's obituary in 1914, the following is written: "it was his request that he be buried in an old style, plain way as his father and mother had been interred"
Reverend John Samuel Huggins was an ordained Methodist minister, a farmer and land owner, a blacksmith and also an inventor who invented the first mechanical cotton planter in 1858 & a copy of the patent (#20432) for this cotton seed planter is recorded at Clemson University - SC Inventors. He continued to make improvements to this invention. . This implement was used through the South and the design is still utilized in the manufacture of seed planters.
He is by far one of the most colorful figures in the Huggins Family. He was an ordained minister of the Methodist Faith and was pastor at the Muddy Creek Methodist Church at the time of his death.
He married ZilphIa Ham (1810-1971) about the year 1829. She was a native of Darlington County, where she shared in the division of her father's estate. They had 13 children.
Rev. John Samuel Huggins once invited the entire church home with him for dinner. Another human interest story was the naming of his last daughter. It seems that many of his church family wished to name the child. To satisfy all, he named this addition, thirteen names, attaching to the end, Queen of South Carolina.
He died without a will. The estate of John Samuel Huggins, Williamsburg County, was administered by his son, William Sylvester Huggins.
He was an ordained Methodist Minister, Farmer and Inventor and spent the last 10 years of his ministry in Williamsburg County.
Sources: John Huggins I of Sea Wee Bay by Otis Prince 1965; correction: He was a Methodist minister and was pastor of the Methodist Church at Muddy Creek, not Baptist, as stated by Otis Prince. Williamsburg County Probate Records, family documents; House of Hughes and Dunehoe and Their Many Relatives by Rebecca Hughes Dunehoe; Records of Mrs. Klugh Nedo Huggins. Records of Nancy Prosser.
Burial site not known at this time. Two family references state that he is buried at Muddy Creek. He was a minister at the Ebenezer Methodist Church at the time of his death. Have found no grave marker for him or his wife, Zilphia Ham Huggins. In his son's obituary in 1914, the following is written: "it was his request that he be buried in an old style, plain way as his father and mother had been interred"
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