Jane Isabella Biggs

Generation: 1

1.	Jane Isabella Biggs was born on 16 Jul 1823 (daughter of Colonel William McClure Biggs and Margaret Marrella (Peggy) Temple). Other Events: Name: Jane Isabella McClary Jane married Charles McClary on 05 Oct 1853. [Group Sheet]

Generation: 2

Colonel William McClure Biggs was born on 23 Jun 1797 (son of John Biggs and Isabella Wilson); died on 18 Nov 1878; was buried in Benton Cemetery, Benton, Polk Co., Tennessee.

William married Margaret Marrella (Peggy) Temple on 03 Feb 1820 in Greene Co., Tennessee. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Temple and Mary Jane Moore) was born on 16 Sep 1794; died on 20 Nov 1872; was buried in Benton Cemetery, Benton, Polk Co., Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Margaret Marrella (Peggy) Temple was born on 16 Sep 1794 (daughter of Thomas Temple and Mary Jane Moore); died on 20 Nov 1872; was buried in Benton Cemetery, Benton, Polk Co., Tennessee.

Other Events:

Name: Margaret Marrella (Peggy) Biggs

Notes:

Married:
A. Patterson CGC M. Payne DC.

Children:

Alen Connar Biggs was born on 08 Apr 1821; died in 1891 in Benton Cemetery, Benton, Polk Co., Tennessee.
1. Jane Isabella Biggs was born on 16 Jul 1823.
Mary Lorinda Biggs was born on 12 Feb 1825.
Minerva Marella Biggs was born on 15 Dec 1826 in Near the big spring in first district, Polk Co., Tennessee; died on 19 Feb 1899; was buried in Benton Cemetery, Benton, Polk Co., Tennessee.
Thomas Temple Biggs was born on 17 Feb 1829.
William Alexander Biggs was born on 11 May 1833; died on 25 Aug 1834.
James McClure Biggs was born on 21 Aug 1835; died on 07 Dec 1899.

Generation: 3

John Biggs was born in 1752 in Scotland; died on 01 Dec 1833 in Blount Co., Tennessee.

Notes:

Military:
John Biggs is the ancestor who assisted in establishing America Independence while acting in Capacity of Private under Capt. Miller and Col. McCoy and Broadhead.
He enlisted at West Moreland Co., Penn. Aug. 17, 1776 and was engaged in the battle of Saratoga and Edge Hill Penn. under Capt., Samuel Miller and Col. McCoy and Broadhead the 8th., Regiment. He was discharged at Fort Pitt (Pittsburg) 1779.
From the Custodian of Public Record of Penn. State Library, we found that John Biggs was a Private in Lientenant Williams Withers Company of Rangers 1779.

John married Isabella Wilson on 14 Dec 1782 in Rockbridge Co., VA. Isabella died in 1838. [Group Sheet]

Isabella Wilson died in 1838.

Other Events:

Name: Isabella Biggs

Children:

Margaret Biggs
Jane Biggs
Alexander Biggs
Mary Biggs
Isabella Biggs
John Biggs
James Biggs
2. Colonel William McClure Biggs was born on 23 Jun 1797; died on 18 Nov 1878; was buried in Benton Cemetery, Benton, Polk Co., Tennessee.

Thomas Temple was born on 04 May 1776 in Mechlinburg Co., North Carolina (son of Major Temple and Mary); died on 30 Jun 1852.

Thomas married Mary Jane Moore on 13 Jun 1791 in Greene Co., Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Anthony Moore and Margaret Copeland) was born on 16 May 1767; died on 16 Dec 1859. [Group Sheet]

Mary Jane Moore was born on 16 May 1767 (daughter of Anthony Moore and Margaret Copeland); died on 16 Dec 1859.

Other Events:

Name: Mary Jane Temple

Notes:

Married:
D. Kennedy CGC

Children:

Isabella (Ibby) Temple
Mary K. (Polly) Temple was born about 1792.
3. Margaret Marrella (Peggy) Temple was born on 16 Sep 1794; died on 20 Nov 1872; was buried in Benton Cemetery, Benton, Polk Co., Tennessee.
Elizabeth Temple was born on 21 Jan 1799; died on 10 Feb 1899.
Sallie Rankin (Sara) Temple was born in 1801.
Ellen (Nellie) Temple was born about 1803; died on 13 Jan 1874.
Jane Temple was born about 1805.

Generation: 4

12. Major Temple was born about 1736 in Chester Co., PA (son of Thomas Temple and Mary Jefferis).
Major married Mary. [Group Sheet]

13.

Mary

Other Events:

Name: Mary Temple

Children:

John Temple was born about 28 May 1758.
William Temple was born about 1762.
James Temple was born in 1772.
6. Thomas Temple was born on 04 May 1776 in Mechlinburg Co., North Carolina; died on 30 Jun 1852.
Josiah Temple was born on 10 Nov 1778.

14.

Anthony Moore was born in 1725 in Northampton Co., VA; died in 1822 in Greeneville, Greene Co., Tennessee.

Other Events:

Milit-Beg: 1778

Notes:

History given in Historic Green County, Tennessee, and Its People,
1783-1992 by Robert Robinson Orr, rt. 3, Box 125, Chuckey, TN 37641. Anthony was a pioneer residence of Greeneville and Eleanor was the first white to be born in Greeneville. He lived in the Tusculum Area and one of his descendants was president of Tusculum. Married before 1764, Pennsylvania, Margaret COPELAND (5813), born 1740, Pennsylvania, died 1820, Greenville, TN.

Anthony settled near Greenville TN in 1769.

Milit-Beg:
Anthony Moore served as a private, fifth class, third Company, Sixth
Battalion, Northhampton CO, PA Militia in 1778 under the following
officers: Colonel Jacob Stroud, Major John Gaston, Lieutenant Abraham
Miller, Adjutant Jacob Winans (From PA Archives, Fifth Series, Vol
VIII, P. 430)

Anthony married Margaret Copeland before 1763 in PA. Margaret was born in 1740 in PA; died in 1820 in Greeneville, Greene Co., Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

15.

Margaret Copeland was born in 1740 in PA; died in 1820 in Greeneville, Greene Co., Tennessee.

Other Events:

Name: Margaret Moore

Children:

Sarah Moore was born on 23 Jul 1763 in Northampton Co., VA; died on 09 Oct 1849.
7. Mary Jane Moore was born on 16 May 1767; died on 16 Dec 1859.
David Moore was born on 14 May 1769 in PA.
Ellen Moore was born in 1778 in Greeneville, Greene Co., Tennessee; died after 1844 in Jefferson Co., Tennessee.
Elizabeth Moore was born in 1780 in Greeneville, Greene Co., Tennessee.