Lucy L Pigg

Brief Life History of Lucy L

When Lucy L Pigg was born in 1853, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, her father, Charles Lee Pigg, was 39 and her mother, Gilley P. Paris, was 33. She married Joel J Askew on 2 October 1872, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 15, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 20 October 1883, in Hickman, Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Smith, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joel J Askew
1849–1939
Lucy L Pigg
1853–1883
Marriage: 2 October 1872
William T. “Tony” Askew
1873–1935
Charles Colton Askew
1875–1945
Lula B Askew
1877–
Millie Frances Askew
1879–1932
Joseph Little Askew Sr.
1881–1955
Nathan Ellis Askew
1883–1961

Sources (28)

  • Lucy Pigg in household of Charles Pigg, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Lucy Askew, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
  • Lucy Askew, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"

World Events (6)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

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 ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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