Woodson County Obituaries
James P. Wiggins
Contributed by Charlotte Barnes Lewin

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Yates Center News October 26, 1906

James P. Wiggins was born near Danville, Illinois, January 5, 1844.  he was 
raised on the farm and received such education in early youth as the county 
schools of the time afforded. When a little past seventeen years of age, he 
enlisted as a private in Co. B, 125th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served 
in Sherman's army until he was discharged June 9, 1865.  He participated in 
all the great battles of the Army of the Cumberland including Chickamauga, 
Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge where he was wounded and marched with Sherman 
from Atlanta to the Sea.  He was married to Delphin Clawson at Danville, 
Illinois, August 30, 1866 and shortly after his marriage he moved to Fountain 
Co, Indiana and from there to Wilson Co., Kansas, where he lived from 1870 
until 1891 when he came to Yates Center, which has ever since been his home.  
In the early '70s he united with the New Light Church in Wilson Co. and was 
baptized by Jake Masters.  On coming to Yates Center his membership was 
placed in the Christian Church.  It was one of the worst regrets of his last 
illness that he had not lived a more faithful Christian life, but he received 
great piece of mind in the thought , as he expressed it "The Lord had taken 
him back."  He died at his home in Yates Center after a lingering illness of 
more than a year on October 18, 1906.  He leaves a wife, five children, all 
of whom are married, two sisters, one brother and 14 grandchildren to mourn 
his decease.  Funeral services were held at the Christian Church on Sat. Oct. 
20 at 10 o'clock under the auspice of the Grand Army of the Republic of which 
he was a member.  The funeral sermon was preached by Elder G.H. Lamb after 
which the remains were laid to rest in the Yates Center cemetary.