Notes for Friend Douglas SIGSBY
LDS, IGI North America M518463
Friend Sigsby age 22
Lotta Parks age 16
Marriage: 25 Sept 1878
Source: Early Marriages Ionia County Sackett - Slocum The Dibean Collection
http://www.rootsweb.com/~miionia/DibeanCol/DibeanS1.htm
SIGSBY FRIEND - LOTTA - PARKS 25 SEP 1878
Shortly after 1880, Friend left Lottie and took their daughter with him to Tennessee. In 1885, he married Sarah Birdsong, but he failed to divorce Lottie. Friend and Sarah returned to Clay Co., Arkansas and accumulated a fair amount of property, upon his death, that property was all awarded to Lottie Parks Sigsby. Sarah and her children by Friend were left with nothing.
1880 Soundex, Michigan
Sigsby, Friend age 23 b. Ohio lives Bloomer
w/ Lottie age 16 b. NY
d/ Ora M. age 1 b. Kansas
From Cheryl Layton:
9. Friend Douglas2 Sigsby (David A1) was born 2 March 1856/57 in Ohio, and died 25 January 1894/95 in Recter, Clay Co. Arkansas. He married (1) Lotta Lottie Parks 25 September 1878 in Ionia Co. Michigan (Source: Early Michigan marriages, transcribed.). She was born 1864 in New York. He married (2) Sarah Frances Birdsong 6 September 1885 in Crockett Co., Tenn (Source: Records Transcribed, Us Genweb Archives.). She was born Abt. 1862, and died 8 December 1945 in Rector, Clay Co., Arkansas.
Notes for Friend Douglas Sigsby:
1880 Census. Montcalm Co/, Bloomer Twp.,E.D.227,June 16.1880 pg 26
#252-255 Sigsby, Friend -23-married- farmer- b. Ohio parents b. NY -Ohio
Lottie-16-wife B.Ny
Ora M.-1-Dau-b. Kansas
More About Friend Douglas Sigsby:
Burial: Purcell Cemetery, Clay Co., Arkanasas
More About Friend Sigsby and Lottie Parks:
Marriage: 25 September 1878, Ionia Co. Michigan (Source: Early Michigan marriages, transcribed.)
Notes for Sarah Frances Birdsong:
Obituary for Sarah:
"Sarah Frances(Birdsong) Sigsby, 83, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs Grace Ellison in south Rector, Saturday Evening, Dec 8 1945, after a long illness, which had confined her her to bed for many years.
Besides Mrs. Ellison, she leaves another daughter, Mrs Myrtle Ruelett of Hot springs, and a son L.B. Sigsby of rector, 10 grandchildren and four Great Grandchildren. Mrs. Sigsby had lived in rector practically her whole life.
Funeral Services at Mitchell Funeral Home, Dec 10, services by Rev. A. M Sanford, Pastor of the 4th Methodist church.
More About Sarah Frances Birdsong:
Burial: Woodlawn Heights Cemetery,Rector, Arkansas
More About Friend Sigsby and Sarah Birdsong:
Marriage: 6 September 1885, Crockett Co., Tenn (Source: Records Transcribed, Us Genweb Archives.)
Child of Friend Sigsby and Lottie Parks is:
28 i. Ora M3 Sigsby, born 1879 in Kansas. She married R. W. Walker 15 March 1894/95 in Paragould, Greene Co., Arkansas; born 1874.
More About R. Walker and Ora Sigsby:
Marriage: 15 March 1894/95, Paragould, Greene Co., Arkansas
Children of Friend Sigsby and Sarah Birdsong are:
+ 29 i. Louis Bert3 Sigsby, born 20 March 1886/87; died 3 March 1973 in Rector, Clay CO. Arkansas.
30 ii. Maude Myrtle Sigsby, born 20 August 1890 in Rector, Clay Co., Arkansas. She married Unknown Ruelett.
More About Maude Myrtle Sigsby:
Degree: September 1983
31 iii. Lillie Gay Sigsby, born Abt. 1890 in Rector, Clay Co., Arkansas.
32 iv. Frank Sigsby, born 10 February 1894/95 in Rector, Clay Co., Arkansas; died 10 June 1895 in Rector, Clay Co., Arkansas.
+ 33 v. Grace Sigsby.
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