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Show IND WOlfAlU OF OGDEN IS DEM Mrs Annie Wiggins, widow of the late William Wiggins, died Saturday evening at 7 42 o'clock, at her home 224t) Grant avenue, after an illness Of two days. She was a pioneer of Ogden and a member of one of the handcart companies that crossed the plains In 1800 Mrs Wiggins was the daughter of John and Mary Ann Blanche Gibson and was born September 26, 1S61. at Ebi heBter, county pf Durham, England Eng-land The famllv emigrated to America Amer-ica in 1855, settiinu m Pennsylvania, where the parents Joined the Church oi Jesus Christ or Latter-day Saints five years later. Soon after joining the church. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, with their family set out with the Daniel Robson handcart company, for me arduous journey across the plains The company arrived in Salt Lake City, August 27. lfiKo. and the Gibson family continued on to Ogden. reaching reach-ing this citj two days later. From that time, until her death, Mrs Wiggins Wig-gins made Ogden her home Mrs. itmins was baptised into the Mormon church on July 14. 1862 and WAS a faithful member of that re-St re-St ions body, until death claimed her Mio was married in William li,vin on March 10, 1866, In the Endowment house at Salt Lake City. After their marriage, Mr and Mrs Wiggins made their home at 2246 Grant avenue and r Bid 'i there during the remainder of their lives. The deceased was the mother of eleven children, six of whom, Mrs. David W ESvans, Mrs. Lilla A. Kennedy, Ken-nedy, Leroy, Barl, Florence and James II Wiggins, survive. In addition to rearing her own family, she was a foster mother to fle other children She was the grandmother of eleven children, eight of whm are still living liv-ing and five brothers. Thomas and Jacob Gibson of Taylor. John Gib i son of Heber City; Ralph B. Gibson of Warren, and Joseph Gibson of Rex-burg, Rex-burg, Idaho, also survive. The funeral will be held In the Third ward meeting house. Wednesday Wednes-day at I p. m , and the interment wiil be made in the f ity cenwtiry rvn - |
