Alice Jones Campbell Dwiggins
1. Mrs. Charles Campbell – m. 25 Dec 1871
2. Mrs. Cyrus Dwiggins – m. 29 Oct 1886
B. 13 Apr 1854 in Missouri
D. 28 Jan 1937 in Topeka, Shawnee Co. Kansas
at 82y 9m 15d
Burial – 30 Jan 1937 in Mount Hope Cemetery, North Memorial Garden, Lot #125, Topeka, Shawnee Co. KS
Children with Charles Campbell (all born in Carrollton, MO): Ora Magdalena Campbell (Mr. Simmons); Emerson E. Campbell; Thomas G. Campbell (Leonia Miller); and George W. Campbell (died young.)
Children with Cyrus Dwiggins (all born in Carrollton, MO): William Addison Dwiggins (Mary McMillan); Joseph A. Dwiggins; Grace Mary Dwiggins (Henry R. Stark.)
Alice was an orphan and nothing is known about her parents. It is not even known if Jones is her birth or adoptive name. In one legal record she says that her father was Newton Jones and that he was a farmer outside of Carrollton, Missouri. She added that her parents were born in Kentucky. Alice told her children that when she was young, Jesse James stopped at their family home for coffee.
Alice was seventeen when she married Charles (Charley) Campbell on December 25, 1871. He died on April 11, 1880, leaving Alice a widow at the age of twenty-six. He is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Carrollton. He fought in the Confederate Army from Nashville during the Civil War.
Six years after his death, on October 29, 1886, when she was thirty-two, Brother Hatcher, a Baptist minister, married Alice Jones Campbell and Cyrus Dwiggins in Carrollton. Cyrus had fought for the Union from Indiana. Cyrus probably suffered ill health from the onset of their marriage. He had Typhoid fever during army service and had been hospitalized at Gallatin, Tennessee in late 1862. He felt his disabilities originated from the privations, exposure and unsanitary conditions of army life.
Before marrying Alice, Cyrus had been widowed twice. His first wife was Mary (Mollie) McConnahay and they had three daughters: Virretta Dwiggins (Mrs. James H. Shaw); Mollie and Elma Dwiggins. He had no children with his second wife, Ellen Munsey.
Alice and Cyrus had three children who were also born in Carrollton. Alice was thirty-five when their oldest, William (Bill) Addison Dwiggins, was born in 1888. Their other children were Joseph A. and their youngest, Grace Mary. Alice was forty-one when Grace was born.
The Dwiggins family moved to Topeka, Kansas in 1898. Maggie Campbell was already married to Mr. Simmons and had a child of her own. (Maggie died on July 17, 1908 at the age of thirty-six.) Emerson Campbell, who was in his early twenties, had struck out on his own. Alice said, "He went to the wicked city of Denver and never returned." Only her son Tom Campbell went with the Dwiggins family to Topeka.
Cyrus's occupations that have been mentioned are farmer, laborer, carpenter and grocer and always as an "old soldier." Alice was a homemaker. Her Granddaughter Maxine Alice Dwiggins (Mrs. Robert H. Neff) remembers that she was frugal. There was not much money to run the household.
The Millers, who were Tom Campbells' in-laws, lived across the street at 710 Lime Street. Mrs. Miller and Alice had a friendship, along with some rivalry in the cooking department. Maxine remembers that there was competition between Mrs. Miller and Grandma Alice as to whose food was the best. Once Mrs. Miller invited Maxine over to eat, but Maxine saw her perspire a lot and noticed sweat beads dripping from the end of her nose into the pot so she wouldn't eat her food. She went back across the street to Grandma Dwiggin's who, of course, was delighted. As a reward, she gave Maxine a hard-boiled egg ... only it wasn't hard boiled enough for Maxine. She went out to the street and sat on the curb where she slyly disposed of the egg into the gutter. Shortly thereafter, the ice cream truck came by and Grandma wanted to reward her good girl, once more. After buying her a treat, she noticed her egg lying in the gutter.
In September of 1906 the Dwiggins' address was 119 E. Crane St. in Topeka. Bill Dwiggins was eighteen at this time and it is about the time that he left home to work as a meat packer in Denver. By 1910 Bill was living in Denver and on March 30, 1910 he eloped with Mary McMillan and they were married in Golden, Colorado.
A 1912 a Topeka City Directory lists, "Dwiggins Cyrus, grocer 1201 E. 8th av, r 709 Lime and underneath this entry is "Dwiggins Joseph, b 709 Lime." Also copied from this directory is, "Stark Henry, R., appr State Printer, b 2400 Kansas av." Grace Dwiggins eventually married Henry Richard Stark. Grace was eighteen in 1912 and was still living at home. She is still listed as living at home in a 1920 census.
On Saturday, March 1, 1913 Alice's granddaughter, Geraldine Olive Dwiggins, was born in N.Y. N.Y. to their son and his wife, Bill and Mary McMillan Dwiggins. Upon hearing the baby's name, Alice said, "That name's enough to kill the poor child."
On Thursday, March 1, 1917 Alice's granddaughter, and namesake, Maxine Alice Dwiggins, was born in Denver to their son and his wife, Bill and Mary Dwiggins.
Between 1919 and 1922 Tom Campbell and Bill Dwiggins, with their families, moved to Detroit where they were in the meat packing industry.
In January of 1920, when Cyrus was seventy-seven and Alice was sixty-seven, Cyrus became ill with bronchia pneumonia and influenza. He constantly got weaker. He required constant care and was not able to be out of bed. Before this sickness, he supposedly was in good health and able to walk about town and to attend to business. Now he required constant care and could not help himself. He applied for an increase in pension payments and because he was so weak the form was marked by his X and signed by Alice.
Cyrus was ordered to report for a physical examination on October 6, 1921, but he died before the exam could take place. He died on September 18, 1921, after being helpless for two years. He was buried in Topeka Cemetery in Topeka.
Alice remained at her home, 709 Lime St., and began the long process of applying for Widow's Pension Benefits. While Cyrus was sick he had sent some very confusing statements to the Pension Board. He had even sent her name as being Cunningham. To prove and disprove some of the information Alice had to send affidavits and notarized certificates to prove the truth, and to disprove the errors. She said, "He was upset or deranged much of the time, at periods for many years. Because he was addled and befuddled, as he so frequently was for nearly 30 years of our married life, he got mixed up on his names and dates and got so he died not remembering."
Setting the record straight must have been an ordeal. She needed proof that she was legally entitled to the pension. To do that she had to provide appropriate certificate numbers, including class changes, and a statement that Cyrus had served in no other military capacity than the Civil War. She needed to send their marriage certificate and his death certificate. She had to prove her first husband Charles Campbell's death and his service against the U.S. for the Confederacy, and that she was collecting no other pensions and that she had no other marriages. She had to prove that Cyrus's marriages to Mollie and Ellen were his only other marriages, and to prove their deaths. Finally she had to provide proof of children that were living and not dependent.
She had no public marriage or death records for the other spouses, Charles, and Mollie and Ellen, so she needed affidavits from a variety of reliable sources. Besides her own affidavit, and the doctors and the attorneys, she had to include affidavits from Mollie Dwiggins Brown, step-daughter; Frank Dwiggins, nephew; L.E. Umpherman and Emma Appleby, and R.B. Bradshaw, long time acquaintances.
They testified that they intimately knew the claimant (Alice) and the family history. These affidavits came from W. Alton and Carrollton, Missouri to Topeka, Kansas and then given to the lawyer and sent to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C. She was granted the full widow pension amount allowed under law which was $30.00. It increased to $40 when she became seventy-five years old in 1930 and remained $40.00 until her death seven years later.
On August 27, 1933 her son, Joe Dwiggins died in a tragic car accident. He was only forty-five and had suffered from drug/alcohol problems for years. He is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery next to Alice. Alice had remained close to Cyrus's oldest daughter, Viretta Dwiggins Shaw and the following Shaws signed Joseph Dwiggins' funeral book in 1933, William C. Shaw (nephew) and his wife, Anna Shaw. They sent flowers along with Mr. and Mrs. J. Shaw.
Alice lived in Topeka for thirty-nine years, until her death in 1937. Near the end of her life, in April of 1936, she moved to her daughter, Grace's home at 509 E. 10th St. "Grace made her stop smoking the pipe and she didn't like that," remembers her granddaughter Geraldine Dwiggins (Ross Kitchen.)
Alice died in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, at the age of 82 years, 9 months, 16 days, and is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery. She out-lived Cyrus by sixteen years.
At the time of her death, two sons, Thomas Campbell and William Dwiggins, and one daughter, Grace Dwiggins Stark survived her. Also, signed in her funeral book, are William, Anna, Clifford, James, Viretta, and Joan Shaw, children and grandchildren from Cyrus's first marriage.
Obituary – unidentified source
"WAS TOPEKAN 39 YEARS"
"Mrs. Alice Dwiggins Dies at Home of Her Daughter"
Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, 82, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.R. Stark, 417 East Tenth avenue. She had made her home in Topeka 39 years. Besides her daughter, she is survived by two sons, W.A. Dwiggins, Columbus, O., and T.G. Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., and seven grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed."
"MRS. ALICE DWIGGINS"
"Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3:30 o'clock from Wall-Diffenderfer's for Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, 82, who died Thursday. Mrs. Dwiggins made her home with her daughter, Mrs. H.R. Stark, 417 East Tenth avenue, recently, but had been a resident of Topeka nearly forty years. Two sons, W.A. Dwiggins, of Columbus, O., and T.G. Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., and seven grandchildren survive her. Interment will be made in Mr. Hope cemetery."
DWIGGINS
"Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, who died Thursday, will be Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery."
Maxine was nineteen when her Grandmother Alice died and she has many memories of visiting her in Topeka. She remembers her Grandmother sitting behind a Franklin stove that was used to heat the house. Alice sat in its warmth while she smoked her clay pipe. Maxine says, "Grandmother Alice had small eyes and she would tell Geraldine and me that our eyes were too big and that would cause us trouble." Geraldine adds, "She thought our eyes would be weak and we'd need glasses."
Alice's obituary states that she left seven grandchildren. Because there isn't enough information about Maggie and Emerson from her first marriage, only four grandchildren can be named: Hazel and Faye from her son, Tom Campbell; and Geraldine and Maxine from her son, Bill Dwiggins.
From these four known grandchildren, she had five great-grandchildren: Marian from Faye; and Marta Ross Kitchen (Stephen Schieffer) from Geraldine; and Jennifer Neff, Holly Neff (Gordon R.Broom) and Candace Neff from Maxine.
Comment: The summer I was working on Dwiggins Depiction with my mother, Maxine, she found this short poem that she had saved. When we searched for a tribute to Alice, it expressed exactly what we hoped to say.
"The Tide Recedes"
Unknown author
The tide recedes
But leaves behind
Bright seashells on the sand.
The sun goes down
But gentle warmth
Still lingers on the land.
The music stops,
And yet it echoes on,
In sweet refrains,
For every joy that passes
Something beautiful remains.
1. Mrs. Charles Campbell – m. 25 Dec 1871
2. Mrs. Cyrus Dwiggins – m. 29 Oct 1886
B. 13 Apr 1854 in Missouri
D. 28 Jan 1937 in Topeka, Shawnee Co. Kansas
at 82y 9m 15d
Burial – 30 Jan 1937 in Mount Hope Cemetery, North Memorial Garden, Lot #125, Topeka, Shawnee Co. KS
Children with Charles Campbell (all born in Carrollton, MO): Ora Magdalena Campbell (Mr. Simmons); Emerson E. Campbell; Thomas G. Campbell (Leonia Miller); and George W. Campbell (died young.)
Children with Cyrus Dwiggins (all born in Carrollton, MO): William Addison Dwiggins (Mary McMillan); Joseph A. Dwiggins; Grace Mary Dwiggins (Henry R. Stark.)
Alice was an orphan and nothing is known about her parents. It is not even known if Jones is her birth or adoptive name. In one legal record she says that her father was Newton Jones and that he was a farmer outside of Carrollton, Missouri. She added that her parents were born in Kentucky. Alice told her children that when she was young, Jesse James stopped at their family home for coffee.
Alice was seventeen when she married Charles (Charley) Campbell on December 25, 1871. He died on April 11, 1880, leaving Alice a widow at the age of twenty-six. He is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Carrollton. He fought in the Confederate Army from Nashville during the Civil War.
Six years after his death, on October 29, 1886, when she was thirty-two, Brother Hatcher, a Baptist minister, married Alice Jones Campbell and Cyrus Dwiggins in Carrollton. Cyrus had fought for the Union from Indiana. Cyrus probably suffered ill health from the onset of their marriage. He had Typhoid fever during army service and had been hospitalized at Gallatin, Tennessee in late 1862. He felt his disabilities originated from the privations, exposure and unsanitary conditions of army life.
Before marrying Alice, Cyrus had been widowed twice. His first wife was Mary (Mollie) McConnahay and they had three daughters: Virretta Dwiggins (Mrs. James H. Shaw); Mollie and Elma Dwiggins. He had no children with his second wife, Ellen Munsey.
Alice and Cyrus had three children who were also born in Carrollton. Alice was thirty-five when their oldest, William (Bill) Addison Dwiggins, was born in 1888. Their other children were Joseph A. and their youngest, Grace Mary. Alice was forty-one when Grace was born.
The Dwiggins family moved to Topeka, Kansas in 1898. Maggie Campbell was already married to Mr. Simmons and had a child of her own. (Maggie died on July 17, 1908 at the age of thirty-six.) Emerson Campbell, who was in his early twenties, had struck out on his own. Alice said, "He went to the wicked city of Denver and never returned." Only her son Tom Campbell went with the Dwiggins family to Topeka.
Cyrus's occupations that have been mentioned are farmer, laborer, carpenter and grocer and always as an "old soldier." Alice was a homemaker. Her Granddaughter Maxine Alice Dwiggins (Mrs. Robert H. Neff) remembers that she was frugal. There was not much money to run the household.
The Millers, who were Tom Campbells' in-laws, lived across the street at 710 Lime Street. Mrs. Miller and Alice had a friendship, along with some rivalry in the cooking department. Maxine remembers that there was competition between Mrs. Miller and Grandma Alice as to whose food was the best. Once Mrs. Miller invited Maxine over to eat, but Maxine saw her perspire a lot and noticed sweat beads dripping from the end of her nose into the pot so she wouldn't eat her food. She went back across the street to Grandma Dwiggin's who, of course, was delighted. As a reward, she gave Maxine a hard-boiled egg ... only it wasn't hard boiled enough for Maxine. She went out to the street and sat on the curb where she slyly disposed of the egg into the gutter. Shortly thereafter, the ice cream truck came by and Grandma wanted to reward her good girl, once more. After buying her a treat, she noticed her egg lying in the gutter.
In September of 1906 the Dwiggins' address was 119 E. Crane St. in Topeka. Bill Dwiggins was eighteen at this time and it is about the time that he left home to work as a meat packer in Denver. By 1910 Bill was living in Denver and on March 30, 1910 he eloped with Mary McMillan and they were married in Golden, Colorado.
A 1912 a Topeka City Directory lists, "Dwiggins Cyrus, grocer 1201 E. 8th av, r 709 Lime and underneath this entry is "Dwiggins Joseph, b 709 Lime." Also copied from this directory is, "Stark Henry, R., appr State Printer, b 2400 Kansas av." Grace Dwiggins eventually married Henry Richard Stark. Grace was eighteen in 1912 and was still living at home. She is still listed as living at home in a 1920 census.
On Saturday, March 1, 1913 Alice's granddaughter, Geraldine Olive Dwiggins, was born in N.Y. N.Y. to their son and his wife, Bill and Mary McMillan Dwiggins. Upon hearing the baby's name, Alice said, "That name's enough to kill the poor child."
On Thursday, March 1, 1917 Alice's granddaughter, and namesake, Maxine Alice Dwiggins, was born in Denver to their son and his wife, Bill and Mary Dwiggins.
Between 1919 and 1922 Tom Campbell and Bill Dwiggins, with their families, moved to Detroit where they were in the meat packing industry.
In January of 1920, when Cyrus was seventy-seven and Alice was sixty-seven, Cyrus became ill with bronchia pneumonia and influenza. He constantly got weaker. He required constant care and was not able to be out of bed. Before this sickness, he supposedly was in good health and able to walk about town and to attend to business. Now he required constant care and could not help himself. He applied for an increase in pension payments and because he was so weak the form was marked by his X and signed by Alice.
Cyrus was ordered to report for a physical examination on October 6, 1921, but he died before the exam could take place. He died on September 18, 1921, after being helpless for two years. He was buried in Topeka Cemetery in Topeka.
Alice remained at her home, 709 Lime St., and began the long process of applying for Widow's Pension Benefits. While Cyrus was sick he had sent some very confusing statements to the Pension Board. He had even sent her name as being Cunningham. To prove and disprove some of the information Alice had to send affidavits and notarized certificates to prove the truth, and to disprove the errors. She said, "He was upset or deranged much of the time, at periods for many years. Because he was addled and befuddled, as he so frequently was for nearly 30 years of our married life, he got mixed up on his names and dates and got so he died not remembering."
Setting the record straight must have been an ordeal. She needed proof that she was legally entitled to the pension. To do that she had to provide appropriate certificate numbers, including class changes, and a statement that Cyrus had served in no other military capacity than the Civil War. She needed to send their marriage certificate and his death certificate. She had to prove her first husband Charles Campbell's death and his service against the U.S. for the Confederacy, and that she was collecting no other pensions and that she had no other marriages. She had to prove that Cyrus's marriages to Mollie and Ellen were his only other marriages, and to prove their deaths. Finally she had to provide proof of children that were living and not dependent.
She had no public marriage or death records for the other spouses, Charles, and Mollie and Ellen, so she needed affidavits from a variety of reliable sources. Besides her own affidavit, and the doctors and the attorneys, she had to include affidavits from Mollie Dwiggins Brown, step-daughter; Frank Dwiggins, nephew; L.E. Umpherman and Emma Appleby, and R.B. Bradshaw, long time acquaintances.
They testified that they intimately knew the claimant (Alice) and the family history. These affidavits came from W. Alton and Carrollton, Missouri to Topeka, Kansas and then given to the lawyer and sent to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C. She was granted the full widow pension amount allowed under law which was $30.00. It increased to $40 when she became seventy-five years old in 1930 and remained $40.00 until her death seven years later.
On August 27, 1933 her son, Joe Dwiggins died in a tragic car accident. He was only forty-five and had suffered from drug/alcohol problems for years. He is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery next to Alice. Alice had remained close to Cyrus's oldest daughter, Viretta Dwiggins Shaw and the following Shaws signed Joseph Dwiggins' funeral book in 1933, William C. Shaw (nephew) and his wife, Anna Shaw. They sent flowers along with Mr. and Mrs. J. Shaw.
Alice lived in Topeka for thirty-nine years, until her death in 1937. Near the end of her life, in April of 1936, she moved to her daughter, Grace's home at 509 E. 10th St. "Grace made her stop smoking the pipe and she didn't like that," remembers her granddaughter Geraldine Dwiggins (Ross Kitchen.)
Alice died in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, at the age of 82 years, 9 months, 16 days, and is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery. She out-lived Cyrus by sixteen years.
At the time of her death, two sons, Thomas Campbell and William Dwiggins, and one daughter, Grace Dwiggins Stark survived her. Also, signed in her funeral book, are William, Anna, Clifford, James, Viretta, and Joan Shaw, children and grandchildren from Cyrus's first marriage.
Obituary – unidentified source
"WAS TOPEKAN 39 YEARS"
"Mrs. Alice Dwiggins Dies at Home of Her Daughter"
Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, 82, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.R. Stark, 417 East Tenth avenue. She had made her home in Topeka 39 years. Besides her daughter, she is survived by two sons, W.A. Dwiggins, Columbus, O., and T.G. Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., and seven grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed."
"MRS. ALICE DWIGGINS"
"Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3:30 o'clock from Wall-Diffenderfer's for Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, 82, who died Thursday. Mrs. Dwiggins made her home with her daughter, Mrs. H.R. Stark, 417 East Tenth avenue, recently, but had been a resident of Topeka nearly forty years. Two sons, W.A. Dwiggins, of Columbus, O., and T.G. Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., and seven grandchildren survive her. Interment will be made in Mr. Hope cemetery."
DWIGGINS
"Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, who died Thursday, will be Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery."
Maxine was nineteen when her Grandmother Alice died and she has many memories of visiting her in Topeka. She remembers her Grandmother sitting behind a Franklin stove that was used to heat the house. Alice sat in its warmth while she smoked her clay pipe. Maxine says, "Grandmother Alice had small eyes and she would tell Geraldine and me that our eyes were too big and that would cause us trouble." Geraldine adds, "She thought our eyes would be weak and we'd need glasses."
Alice's obituary states that she left seven grandchildren. Because there isn't enough information about Maggie and Emerson from her first marriage, only four grandchildren can be named: Hazel and Faye from her son, Tom Campbell; and Geraldine and Maxine from her son, Bill Dwiggins.
From these four known grandchildren, she had five great-grandchildren: Marian from Faye; and Marta Ross Kitchen (Stephen Schieffer) from Geraldine; and Jennifer Neff, Holly Neff (Gordon R.Broom) and Candace Neff from Maxine.
Comment: The summer I was working on Dwiggins Depiction with my mother, Maxine, she found this short poem that she had saved. When we searched for a tribute to Alice, it expressed exactly what we hoped to say.
"The Tide Recedes"
Unknown author
The tide recedes
But leaves behind
Bright seashells on the sand.
The sun goes down
But gentle warmth
Still lingers on the land.
The music stops,
And yet it echoes on,
In sweet refrains,
For every joy that passes
Something beautiful remains.
Alice Jones Campbell Dwiggins
1. Mrs. Charles Campbell – m. 25 Dec 1871
2. Mrs. Cyrus Dwiggins – m. 29 Oct 1886
B. 13 Apr 1854 in Missouri
D. 28 Jan 1937 in Topeka, Shawnee Co. Kansas
at 82y 9m 15d
Burial – 30 Jan 1937 in Mount Hope Cemetery, North Memorial Garden, Lot #125, Topeka, Shawnee Co. KS
Children with Charles Campbell (all born in Carrollton, MO): Ora Magdalena Campbell (Mr. Simmons); Emerson E. Campbell; Thomas G. Campbell (Leonia Miller); and George W. Campbell (died young.)
Children with Cyrus Dwiggins (all born in Carrollton, MO): William Addison Dwiggins (Mary McMillan); Joseph A. Dwiggins; Grace Mary Dwiggins (Henry R. Stark.)
Alice was an orphan and nothing is known about her parents. It is not even known if Jones is her birth or adoptive name. In one legal record she says that her father was Newton Jones and that he was a farmer outside of Carrollton, Missouri. She added that her parents were born in Kentucky. Alice told her children that when she was young, Jesse James stopped at their family home for coffee.
Alice was seventeen when she married Charles (Charley) Campbell on December 25, 1871. He died on April 11, 1880, leaving Alice a widow at the age of twenty-six. He is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Carrollton. He fought in the Confederate Army from Nashville during the Civil War.
Six years after his death, on October 29, 1886, when she was thirty-two, Brother Hatcher, a Baptist minister, married Alice Jones Campbell and Cyrus Dwiggins in Carrollton. Cyrus had fought for the Union from Indiana. Cyrus probably suffered ill health from the onset of their marriage. He had Typhoid fever during army service and had been hospitalized at Gallatin, Tennessee in late 1862. He felt his disabilities originated from the privations, exposure and unsanitary conditions of army life.
Before marrying Alice, Cyrus had been widowed twice. His first wife was Mary (Mollie) McConnahay and they had three daughters: Virretta Dwiggins (Mrs. James H. Shaw); Mollie and Elma Dwiggins. He had no children with his second wife, Ellen Munsey.
Alice and Cyrus had three children who were also born in Carrollton. Alice was thirty-five when their oldest, William (Bill) Addison Dwiggins, was born in 1888. Their other children were Joseph A. and their youngest, Grace Mary. Alice was forty-one when Grace was born.
The Dwiggins family moved to Topeka, Kansas in 1898. Maggie Campbell was already married to Mr. Simmons and had a child of her own. (Maggie died on July 17, 1908 at the age of thirty-six.) Emerson Campbell, who was in his early twenties, had struck out on his own. Alice said, "He went to the wicked city of Denver and never returned." Only her son Tom Campbell went with the Dwiggins family to Topeka.
Cyrus's occupations that have been mentioned are farmer, laborer, carpenter and grocer and always as an "old soldier." Alice was a homemaker. Her Granddaughter Maxine Alice Dwiggins (Mrs. Robert H. Neff) remembers that she was frugal. There was not much money to run the household.
The Millers, who were Tom Campbells' in-laws, lived across the street at 710 Lime Street. Mrs. Miller and Alice had a friendship, along with some rivalry in the cooking department. Maxine remembers that there was competition between Mrs. Miller and Grandma Alice as to whose food was the best. Once Mrs. Miller invited Maxine over to eat, but Maxine saw her perspire a lot and noticed sweat beads dripping from the end of her nose into the pot so she wouldn't eat her food. She went back across the street to Grandma Dwiggin's who, of course, was delighted. As a reward, she gave Maxine a hard-boiled egg ... only it wasn't hard boiled enough for Maxine. She went out to the street and sat on the curb where she slyly disposed of the egg into the gutter. Shortly thereafter, the ice cream truck came by and Grandma wanted to reward her good girl, once more. After buying her a treat, she noticed her egg lying in the gutter.
In September of 1906 the Dwiggins' address was 119 E. Crane St. in Topeka. Bill Dwiggins was eighteen at this time and it is about the time that he left home to work as a meat packer in Denver. By 1910 Bill was living in Denver and on March 30, 1910 he eloped with Mary McMillan and they were married in Golden, Colorado.
A 1912 a Topeka City Directory lists, "Dwiggins Cyrus, grocer 1201 E. 8th av, r 709 Lime and underneath this entry is "Dwiggins Joseph, b 709 Lime." Also copied from this directory is, "Stark Henry, R., appr State Printer, b 2400 Kansas av." Grace Dwiggins eventually married Henry Richard Stark. Grace was eighteen in 1912 and was still living at home. She is still listed as living at home in a 1920 census.
On Saturday, March 1, 1913 Alice's granddaughter, Geraldine Olive Dwiggins, was born in N.Y. N.Y. to their son and his wife, Bill and Mary McMillan Dwiggins. Upon hearing the baby's name, Alice said, "That name's enough to kill the poor child."
On Thursday, March 1, 1917 Alice's granddaughter, and namesake, Maxine Alice Dwiggins, was born in Denver to their son and his wife, Bill and Mary Dwiggins.
Between 1919 and 1922 Tom Campbell and Bill Dwiggins, with their families, moved to Detroit where they were in the meat packing industry.
In January of 1920, when Cyrus was seventy-seven and Alice was sixty-seven, Cyrus became ill with bronchia pneumonia and influenza. He constantly got weaker. He required constant care and was not able to be out of bed. Before this sickness, he supposedly was in good health and able to walk about town and to attend to business. Now he required constant care and could not help himself. He applied for an increase in pension payments and because he was so weak the form was marked by his X and signed by Alice.
Cyrus was ordered to report for a physical examination on October 6, 1921, but he died before the exam could take place. He died on September 18, 1921, after being helpless for two years. He was buried in Topeka Cemetery in Topeka.
Alice remained at her home, 709 Lime St., and began the long process of applying for Widow's Pension Benefits. While Cyrus was sick he had sent some very confusing statements to the Pension Board. He had even sent her name as being Cunningham. To prove and disprove some of the information Alice had to send affidavits and notarized certificates to prove the truth, and to disprove the errors. She said, "He was upset or deranged much of the time, at periods for many years. Because he was addled and befuddled, as he so frequently was for nearly 30 years of our married life, he got mixed up on his names and dates and got so he died not remembering."
Setting the record straight must have been an ordeal. She needed proof that she was legally entitled to the pension. To do that she had to provide appropriate certificate numbers, including class changes, and a statement that Cyrus had served in no other military capacity than the Civil War. She needed to send their marriage certificate and his death certificate. She had to prove her first husband Charles Campbell's death and his service against the U.S. for the Confederacy, and that she was collecting no other pensions and that she had no other marriages. She had to prove that Cyrus's marriages to Mollie and Ellen were his only other marriages, and to prove their deaths. Finally she had to provide proof of children that were living and not dependent.
She had no public marriage or death records for the other spouses, Charles, and Mollie and Ellen, so she needed affidavits from a variety of reliable sources. Besides her own affidavit, and the doctors and the attorneys, she had to include affidavits from Mollie Dwiggins Brown, step-daughter; Frank Dwiggins, nephew; L.E. Umpherman and Emma Appleby, and R.B. Bradshaw, long time acquaintances.
They testified that they intimately knew the claimant (Alice) and the family history. These affidavits came from W. Alton and Carrollton, Missouri to Topeka, Kansas and then given to the lawyer and sent to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C. She was granted the full widow pension amount allowed under law which was $30.00. It increased to $40 when she became seventy-five years old in 1930 and remained $40.00 until her death seven years later.
On August 27, 1933 her son, Joe Dwiggins died in a tragic car accident. He was only forty-five and had suffered from drug/alcohol problems for years. He is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery next to Alice. Alice had remained close to Cyrus's oldest daughter, Viretta Dwiggins Shaw and the following Shaws signed Joseph Dwiggins' funeral book in 1933, William C. Shaw (nephew) and his wife, Anna Shaw. They sent flowers along with Mr. and Mrs. J. Shaw.
Alice lived in Topeka for thirty-nine years, until her death in 1937. Near the end of her life, in April of 1936, she moved to her daughter, Grace's home at 509 E. 10th St. "Grace made her stop smoking the pipe and she didn't like that," remembers her granddaughter Geraldine Dwiggins (Ross Kitchen.)
Alice died in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, at the age of 82 years, 9 months, 16 days, and is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery. She out-lived Cyrus by sixteen years.
At the time of her death, two sons, Thomas Campbell and William Dwiggins, and one daughter, Grace Dwiggins Stark survived her. Also, signed in her funeral book, are William, Anna, Clifford, James, Viretta, and Joan Shaw, children and grandchildren from Cyrus's first marriage.
Obituary – unidentified source
"WAS TOPEKAN 39 YEARS"
"Mrs. Alice Dwiggins Dies at Home of Her Daughter"
Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, 82, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.R. Stark, 417 East Tenth avenue. She had made her home in Topeka 39 years. Besides her daughter, she is survived by two sons, W.A. Dwiggins, Columbus, O., and T.G. Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., and seven grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed."
"MRS. ALICE DWIGGINS"
"Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3:30 o'clock from Wall-Diffenderfer's for Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, 82, who died Thursday. Mrs. Dwiggins made her home with her daughter, Mrs. H.R. Stark, 417 East Tenth avenue, recently, but had been a resident of Topeka nearly forty years. Two sons, W.A. Dwiggins, of Columbus, O., and T.G. Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., and seven grandchildren survive her. Interment will be made in Mr. Hope cemetery."
DWIGGINS
"Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, who died Thursday, will be Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery."
Maxine was nineteen when her Grandmother Alice died and she has many memories of visiting her in Topeka. She remembers her Grandmother sitting behind a Franklin stove that was used to heat the house. Alice sat in its warmth while she smoked her clay pipe. Maxine says, "Grandmother Alice had small eyes and she would tell Geraldine and me that our eyes were too big and that would cause us trouble." Geraldine adds, "She thought our eyes would be weak and we'd need glasses."
Alice's obituary states that she left seven grandchildren. Because there isn't enough information about Maggie and Emerson from her first marriage, only four grandchildren can be named: Hazel and Faye from her son, Tom Campbell; and Geraldine and Maxine from her son, Bill Dwiggins.
From these four known grandchildren, she had five great-grandchildren: Marian from Faye; and Marta Ross Kitchen (Stephen Schieffer) from Geraldine; and Jennifer Neff, Holly Neff (Gordon R.Broom) and Candace Neff from Maxine.
Comment: The summer I was working on Dwiggins Depiction with my mother, Maxine, she found this short poem that she had saved. When we searched for a tribute to Alice, it expressed exactly what we hoped to say.
"The Tide Recedes"
Unknown author
The tide recedes
But leaves behind
Bright seashells on the sand.
The sun goes down
But gentle warmth
Still lingers on the land.
The music stops,
And yet it echoes on,
In sweet refrains,
For every joy that passes
Something beautiful remains.
1. Mrs. Charles Campbell – m. 25 Dec 1871
2. Mrs. Cyrus Dwiggins – m. 29 Oct 1886
B. 13 Apr 1854 in Missouri
D. 28 Jan 1937 in Topeka, Shawnee Co. Kansas
at 82y 9m 15d
Burial – 30 Jan 1937 in Mount Hope Cemetery, North Memorial Garden, Lot #125, Topeka, Shawnee Co. KS
Children with Charles Campbell (all born in Carrollton, MO): Ora Magdalena Campbell (Mr. Simmons); Emerson E. Campbell; Thomas G. Campbell (Leonia Miller); and George W. Campbell (died young.)
Children with Cyrus Dwiggins (all born in Carrollton, MO): William Addison Dwiggins (Mary McMillan); Joseph A. Dwiggins; Grace Mary Dwiggins (Henry R. Stark.)
Alice was an orphan and nothing is known about her parents. It is not even known if Jones is her birth or adoptive name. In one legal record she says that her father was Newton Jones and that he was a farmer outside of Carrollton, Missouri. She added that her parents were born in Kentucky. Alice told her children that when she was young, Jesse James stopped at their family home for coffee.
Alice was seventeen when she married Charles (Charley) Campbell on December 25, 1871. He died on April 11, 1880, leaving Alice a widow at the age of twenty-six. He is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Carrollton. He fought in the Confederate Army from Nashville during the Civil War.
Six years after his death, on October 29, 1886, when she was thirty-two, Brother Hatcher, a Baptist minister, married Alice Jones Campbell and Cyrus Dwiggins in Carrollton. Cyrus had fought for the Union from Indiana. Cyrus probably suffered ill health from the onset of their marriage. He had Typhoid fever during army service and had been hospitalized at Gallatin, Tennessee in late 1862. He felt his disabilities originated from the privations, exposure and unsanitary conditions of army life.
Before marrying Alice, Cyrus had been widowed twice. His first wife was Mary (Mollie) McConnahay and they had three daughters: Virretta Dwiggins (Mrs. James H. Shaw); Mollie and Elma Dwiggins. He had no children with his second wife, Ellen Munsey.
Alice and Cyrus had three children who were also born in Carrollton. Alice was thirty-five when their oldest, William (Bill) Addison Dwiggins, was born in 1888. Their other children were Joseph A. and their youngest, Grace Mary. Alice was forty-one when Grace was born.
The Dwiggins family moved to Topeka, Kansas in 1898. Maggie Campbell was already married to Mr. Simmons and had a child of her own. (Maggie died on July 17, 1908 at the age of thirty-six.) Emerson Campbell, who was in his early twenties, had struck out on his own. Alice said, "He went to the wicked city of Denver and never returned." Only her son Tom Campbell went with the Dwiggins family to Topeka.
Cyrus's occupations that have been mentioned are farmer, laborer, carpenter and grocer and always as an "old soldier." Alice was a homemaker. Her Granddaughter Maxine Alice Dwiggins (Mrs. Robert H. Neff) remembers that she was frugal. There was not much money to run the household.
The Millers, who were Tom Campbells' in-laws, lived across the street at 710 Lime Street. Mrs. Miller and Alice had a friendship, along with some rivalry in the cooking department. Maxine remembers that there was competition between Mrs. Miller and Grandma Alice as to whose food was the best. Once Mrs. Miller invited Maxine over to eat, but Maxine saw her perspire a lot and noticed sweat beads dripping from the end of her nose into the pot so she wouldn't eat her food. She went back across the street to Grandma Dwiggin's who, of course, was delighted. As a reward, she gave Maxine a hard-boiled egg ... only it wasn't hard boiled enough for Maxine. She went out to the street and sat on the curb where she slyly disposed of the egg into the gutter. Shortly thereafter, the ice cream truck came by and Grandma wanted to reward her good girl, once more. After buying her a treat, she noticed her egg lying in the gutter.
In September of 1906 the Dwiggins' address was 119 E. Crane St. in Topeka. Bill Dwiggins was eighteen at this time and it is about the time that he left home to work as a meat packer in Denver. By 1910 Bill was living in Denver and on March 30, 1910 he eloped with Mary McMillan and they were married in Golden, Colorado.
A 1912 a Topeka City Directory lists, "Dwiggins Cyrus, grocer 1201 E. 8th av, r 709 Lime and underneath this entry is "Dwiggins Joseph, b 709 Lime." Also copied from this directory is, "Stark Henry, R., appr State Printer, b 2400 Kansas av." Grace Dwiggins eventually married Henry Richard Stark. Grace was eighteen in 1912 and was still living at home. She is still listed as living at home in a 1920 census.
On Saturday, March 1, 1913 Alice's granddaughter, Geraldine Olive Dwiggins, was born in N.Y. N.Y. to their son and his wife, Bill and Mary McMillan Dwiggins. Upon hearing the baby's name, Alice said, "That name's enough to kill the poor child."
On Thursday, March 1, 1917 Alice's granddaughter, and namesake, Maxine Alice Dwiggins, was born in Denver to their son and his wife, Bill and Mary Dwiggins.
Between 1919 and 1922 Tom Campbell and Bill Dwiggins, with their families, moved to Detroit where they were in the meat packing industry.
In January of 1920, when Cyrus was seventy-seven and Alice was sixty-seven, Cyrus became ill with bronchia pneumonia and influenza. He constantly got weaker. He required constant care and was not able to be out of bed. Before this sickness, he supposedly was in good health and able to walk about town and to attend to business. Now he required constant care and could not help himself. He applied for an increase in pension payments and because he was so weak the form was marked by his X and signed by Alice.
Cyrus was ordered to report for a physical examination on October 6, 1921, but he died before the exam could take place. He died on September 18, 1921, after being helpless for two years. He was buried in Topeka Cemetery in Topeka.
Alice remained at her home, 709 Lime St., and began the long process of applying for Widow's Pension Benefits. While Cyrus was sick he had sent some very confusing statements to the Pension Board. He had even sent her name as being Cunningham. To prove and disprove some of the information Alice had to send affidavits and notarized certificates to prove the truth, and to disprove the errors. She said, "He was upset or deranged much of the time, at periods for many years. Because he was addled and befuddled, as he so frequently was for nearly 30 years of our married life, he got mixed up on his names and dates and got so he died not remembering."
Setting the record straight must have been an ordeal. She needed proof that she was legally entitled to the pension. To do that she had to provide appropriate certificate numbers, including class changes, and a statement that Cyrus had served in no other military capacity than the Civil War. She needed to send their marriage certificate and his death certificate. She had to prove her first husband Charles Campbell's death and his service against the U.S. for the Confederacy, and that she was collecting no other pensions and that she had no other marriages. She had to prove that Cyrus's marriages to Mollie and Ellen were his only other marriages, and to prove their deaths. Finally she had to provide proof of children that were living and not dependent.
She had no public marriage or death records for the other spouses, Charles, and Mollie and Ellen, so she needed affidavits from a variety of reliable sources. Besides her own affidavit, and the doctors and the attorneys, she had to include affidavits from Mollie Dwiggins Brown, step-daughter; Frank Dwiggins, nephew; L.E. Umpherman and Emma Appleby, and R.B. Bradshaw, long time acquaintances.
They testified that they intimately knew the claimant (Alice) and the family history. These affidavits came from W. Alton and Carrollton, Missouri to Topeka, Kansas and then given to the lawyer and sent to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C. She was granted the full widow pension amount allowed under law which was $30.00. It increased to $40 when she became seventy-five years old in 1930 and remained $40.00 until her death seven years later.
On August 27, 1933 her son, Joe Dwiggins died in a tragic car accident. He was only forty-five and had suffered from drug/alcohol problems for years. He is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery next to Alice. Alice had remained close to Cyrus's oldest daughter, Viretta Dwiggins Shaw and the following Shaws signed Joseph Dwiggins' funeral book in 1933, William C. Shaw (nephew) and his wife, Anna Shaw. They sent flowers along with Mr. and Mrs. J. Shaw.
Alice lived in Topeka for thirty-nine years, until her death in 1937. Near the end of her life, in April of 1936, she moved to her daughter, Grace's home at 509 E. 10th St. "Grace made her stop smoking the pipe and she didn't like that," remembers her granddaughter Geraldine Dwiggins (Ross Kitchen.)
Alice died in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, at the age of 82 years, 9 months, 16 days, and is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery. She out-lived Cyrus by sixteen years.
At the time of her death, two sons, Thomas Campbell and William Dwiggins, and one daughter, Grace Dwiggins Stark survived her. Also, signed in her funeral book, are William, Anna, Clifford, James, Viretta, and Joan Shaw, children and grandchildren from Cyrus's first marriage.
Obituary – unidentified source
"WAS TOPEKAN 39 YEARS"
"Mrs. Alice Dwiggins Dies at Home of Her Daughter"
Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, 82, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.R. Stark, 417 East Tenth avenue. She had made her home in Topeka 39 years. Besides her daughter, she is survived by two sons, W.A. Dwiggins, Columbus, O., and T.G. Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., and seven grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed."
"MRS. ALICE DWIGGINS"
"Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3:30 o'clock from Wall-Diffenderfer's for Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, 82, who died Thursday. Mrs. Dwiggins made her home with her daughter, Mrs. H.R. Stark, 417 East Tenth avenue, recently, but had been a resident of Topeka nearly forty years. Two sons, W.A. Dwiggins, of Columbus, O., and T.G. Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., and seven grandchildren survive her. Interment will be made in Mr. Hope cemetery."
DWIGGINS
"Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Dwiggins, who died Thursday, will be Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery."
Maxine was nineteen when her Grandmother Alice died and she has many memories of visiting her in Topeka. She remembers her Grandmother sitting behind a Franklin stove that was used to heat the house. Alice sat in its warmth while she smoked her clay pipe. Maxine says, "Grandmother Alice had small eyes and she would tell Geraldine and me that our eyes were too big and that would cause us trouble." Geraldine adds, "She thought our eyes would be weak and we'd need glasses."
Alice's obituary states that she left seven grandchildren. Because there isn't enough information about Maggie and Emerson from her first marriage, only four grandchildren can be named: Hazel and Faye from her son, Tom Campbell; and Geraldine and Maxine from her son, Bill Dwiggins.
From these four known grandchildren, she had five great-grandchildren: Marian from Faye; and Marta Ross Kitchen (Stephen Schieffer) from Geraldine; and Jennifer Neff, Holly Neff (Gordon R.Broom) and Candace Neff from Maxine.
Comment: The summer I was working on Dwiggins Depiction with my mother, Maxine, she found this short poem that she had saved. When we searched for a tribute to Alice, it expressed exactly what we hoped to say.
"The Tide Recedes"
Unknown author
The tide recedes
But leaves behind
Bright seashells on the sand.
The sun goes down
But gentle warmth
Still lingers on the land.
The music stops,
And yet it echoes on,
In sweet refrains,
For every joy that passes
Something beautiful remains.
