The following information was provided by contributor K. Dillon:
OBITUARY; SEPT, 2, 1941
Abstracted from "Pamlico Past": 75, 50, and 25 years ago this week
Washington Daily News , September , 1991
"Mrs. Fannie Spruill Biggs died at her residence here Monday morning.... after an illness of 10 months.
Mrs. Biggs celebrated her ninetieth birthday on June 1. She was born at Astoria place in Tyrrell County, the youngest child of Joseph and Caroline Spruill Alexander, a family which had been in the colony since 1697. Her father died before her birth and her mother when she was six years old, after which she came to Williamston to live with her sister and brother-in-law, the late Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Simmons. Mrs. Biggs was educated at Louisburg College. At age 19 she was married to the late John Dawson Biggs, captain of Company H. Sixty-first North Carolina Infantry "
The following information was provided by contributor K. Dillon:
OBITUARY; SEPT, 2, 1941
Abstracted from "Pamlico Past": 75, 50, and 25 years ago this week
Washington Daily News , September , 1991
"Mrs. Fannie Spruill Biggs died at her residence here Monday morning.... after an illness of 10 months.
Mrs. Biggs celebrated her ninetieth birthday on June 1. She was born at Astoria place in Tyrrell County, the youngest child of Joseph and Caroline Spruill Alexander, a family which had been in the colony since 1697. Her father died before her birth and her mother when she was six years old, after which she came to Williamston to live with her sister and brother-in-law, the late Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Simmons. Mrs. Biggs was educated at Louisburg College. At age 19 she was married to the late John Dawson Biggs, captain of Company H. Sixty-first North Carolina Infantry "
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