When John Robinson Pigg was born on 19 July 1850, in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri, United States, his father, David Hampton Pigg, was 30 and his mother, Edith R. Robinson, was 26. He married Lucy J Smith on 4 July 1872, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Windsor Township, Henry, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 6 March 1926, in Windsor, Henry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Laurel Oak Cemetery, Windsor Township, Henry, Missouri, United States.
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English: nickname from Middle English pigge ‘pig’ (Old English picg(a)), hence a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd or nickname for someone supposedly resembling a hog (see Hogg ).
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