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Civil War Info
« on: Friday 02 June 17 19:46 BST (UK) »
I am looking for info on my GGG grandfather, Baker L. Wiggins.
Birth:    1825 North Carolina, USA
Death:    May 11, 1865
Baltimore
Baltimore City
Maryland, USA

Confederate Soldier. Served as a Private with Company b of the 1st South Carolina Orrs Rifles. Died due to illness 8 days after being transfered to Fort McHenry as a prisoner of war. He was buried in the post's soldier's grave and was reinterred at Loudon Park National Cemetery.

Wife: Noveline Anderson

Anything will be greatly appreciated

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Re: Civil War Info
« Reply #1 on: Friday 02 June 17 20:03 BST (UK) »
FIND A GRAVE

Burial: Loudon Park National Cemetery  Baltimore Baltimore City Maryland.
Plot: MCH,Grand,0

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2504414&ref=acom

Listed on U.S. Military Burial Registers, 1768-1921 - page 162

SON - Albert Elisha Wiggins 1857 - 1922

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17004197

Mentioned in -U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 - Baker Wiggins - Sevice Data - Co B1 S.C. Rifles.

Confederate soldier who while prisoner of war died at Fort McHenry or baltimore MD and is now buried in the confederate lot Loudon Park.

Listed in U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mjhiggins/s-cw-3.htm

Prisoner details..........

https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-prisoners-ftmchenry-detail.htm?prisonerId=EF97BE0E-A683-4E6C-BF81-3D4A6341846D&prisonerLocation=F

http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5700/sc5768/pdf/cemetery.pdf

https://www.cem.va.gov/pdf/nrhp/Loudon_Park_NR_NOM.pdf

CSA. Co. D 1ST Bttn State Stoops MS Inf. (12 months 1862-1865).

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=flynn&id=I9706

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« Reply #2 on: Friday 02 June 17 20:09 BST (UK) »
1860 Census  District 2, Scott, Mississippi - shows Baker with wife and children.

R L Wiggins 35 Born North Carolina. Overseer. Real estate $480. $100 personal Estate.
Noveline Wiggins 24 Born Alabama.
Sarah Wiggins   8 Born Alabama.
Albert Wiggins   3 Born Alabama.
David Wiggins   6 months. Born Mississippi.
Naoma Wiggins   1 Born Mississippi.

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« Reply #3 on: Friday 02 June 17 20:32 BST (UK) »
1870 Township 4 Range 8 East, Smith, Mississippi after the death of Baker Wiggins

Nevaline Wigings 35
Albert E Wigings 13 - David L Wigings 9 - Nancy C Wigings 8

1880 Beat 5 Pineville, Smith, Mississippi,

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4P3-6GW

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« Reply #4 on: Friday 02 June 17 20:43 BST (UK) »
This is a possibility for Novaline before marriage to Baker.

Smith, Mississippi 1850

Augustas Anderson 43 Mary Anderson   26
Nereline Anderson 15 - Catherine Anderson 13
Alfred Anderson   12 William Anderson   8
Thomas Anderson 4 - Bailey Anderson   3
John Anderson 1
Benjamin Develin 23
Timothy Develin   19

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« Reply #5 on: Friday 02 June 17 20:49 BST (UK) »
Baker Wiggins had been married previously - to Sarah McArthur - 21 August 1851. Noxubee,Mississippi.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V284-RLH

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