Judge William Siggins and Mary "Polly" Wilson
Husband Judge William Siggins 1 2 3 4
Born: 12 May 1789 - Ireland 3 4 Christened: Died: 15 Jul 1875 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 1 3 5 Buried:
Father: John Siggins (1750-1801) 6 7 Mother: Sarah Hood (1750-1835) 2 6 7
Marriage: 8 May 1812 - Centre Co, PA 8
Wife Mary "Polly" Wilson 1 3 9
Born: 24 Sep 1795 - Ireland 9 Christened: Died: 18 Feb 1855 9 Buried:
Children
1 M Samuel Wilson Siggins 9
Born: 9 Feb 1813 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 9 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Julia Ann Mead ( - ) 9
2 M John Siggins 9
Born: 4 Jun 1815 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 9 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Eliza Morgan (1815-1904) 9 10 Marr: 4 Jul 1838 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 10
3 F Nancy G. Siggins 9
Born: 6 Aug 1817 9 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Philip Mead (1810- ) 11 Marr: 5 Aug 1841 12
4 F Mary W. "Polly" Siggins 9
AKA: Polly Liggins 13 Born: 20 Mar 1820 9 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Elijah D. Mead (1818- ) 13 14
5 M William Findley Siggins 1 9
Born: 30 May 1822 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 9 Christened: Died: 9 Sep 1899 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 10 Buried:Spouse: Edith Diennie Nelson (1826-1915) 1 9 Marr: 4 Sep 1850 - Jamestown, Chautauqua Co, NY 1 10
6 M Isaac Siggins 9
Born: 18 Oct 1824 9 Christened: Died: 1910 - California 9 Buried:Spouse: Eliza Jane Kinnear (1837-1872) 9 15
7 M Irvine S. Siggins 16
Born: 6 Mar 1828 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 16 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Dorcas Filer (1828- ) 16
8 M Nathaniel Siggins 16
Born: 7 Aug 1830 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 16 Christened: Died: 24 Jan 1918 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 17 Buried:Spouse: Ann Blakesley (1841- ) 16 Marr: 29 Jul 1865 17
9 M Jefferson Siggins 16
Born: 18 Dec 1832 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 16 Christened: Died: 31 Jan 1871 16 Buried: - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA
10 F Susan Jane Siggins 16
Born: 29 Jan 1836 16 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Benjamin Metlar ( - ) 16
11 F Eliza Ann Siggins 16
Born: 12 Aug 1838 16 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Albert Hamlin ( - ) 16
12 M David Porter Siggins 16
AKA: David R. P. Siggins 1 Born: 9 May 1840 16 Christened: Died: 20 Jul 1864 - Peach Tree Creek, GA 18 19 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - Judge William Siggins
He was but four years of age when his parents emigrated to America. There were few books to be obtained when he went to school-Webster's spelling book and The Testament were about all he had to use when he attended school.
About 1803 he came, with his brother George, to Pithole, in Venango County, Pennsylvania, then an almost uninhabited wilderness.
It is related that, when the few settlers were holding an old fashioned revival meeting, William Siggins was converted; that he received the power and the pious impulse which did not forsake him through all his active life.
In 1807 he settled in Brokenstraw, which was later the site of Youngsville, at the place later occupied by his son William Findlay Siggins. There was no house of worship in the neighborhood then, and four years elapsed with little opportunity for religious services. In 1811, however, he had the privilege of going to Meadville, to attend the first camp-meeting ever held in that part of Pennsylvania.
He married in 1812, and at that time built a grist-mill at Pithole; in 1815 he returned to Youngsville and remained until his death.
Judge Siggins, was a life-long, fervent Christian. He had not only "a sound mind in a sound body" but a powerful mind in a powerful body, and it was a pity he had not had the advantages of a thorough academic training, which would have made him more skilled in the use of the weapons nature had put in his hands.
His mind was admirably adapted for judicial labors, a fact sufficiently attested by his long service as a justice of the peace, and his long list of decisions (of which it is recorded there were four thousand), not one of which, it is said, was ever reversed.
He was decidedly impulsive in disposition, though his strong sense of justice usually checked him from making an obverse use of his natural force. He served the courts of Warren and Venango Counties in all about sixty years. He served as Constable for twelve years. Then he was made High Constable, an office which carried with it very little power until the Judge had a law passed by the State Legislature giving the High Constable the right to transact all business heretofore delegated to the regular constable. It resulted in the business all falling to Judge Siggins as he had foreseen, and the profits of the same falling to him.
He lived for a while on Stewarts Run where he and Judge Connely operated a saw mill in partnership. He was a member of the Jury when the first court in Warren County was held.
Judge Siggins made his home for many years with his son William Findlay Siggins, in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, and it was from this home that his spirit took its flight. A short time previous to his death, he made all arrangements for his funeral and burial. He wished Henry P. Kinnear to take charge and Elder Norton to preach his funeral sermon, but as he was unable to be present, the Rev. Mr. Clark officiated; he had also selected the text from which he wished the sermon preached; it was from Matthew, eighth chapter, 11th and 12th verses; he named the following: John McKinney, Joshua F. Currie, W. D. Belnap, J. Phillips, W. J. Davis and David Bowman, to act as pall bearers at his funeral.
He bore an active part in the War of 1812, and was with Commodore Perry at Lake Erie.
1 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP 86.
2 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 321.
3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 542.
4 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 169.
5 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 78.
6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 283.
7 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 77.
8 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 171.
9 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 177.
10 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 180.
11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 869.
12 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 387.
13 Spencer P. Mead, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901), Pg 314.
14 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 177, 204.
15 Emma Siggins White, The Kinnears and Their Kin (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1916), Pg 202.
16 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 178.
17 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 182.
18 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 213.
19
Samuel P. Bates, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5; Vol. III (Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1870), Pg 1037.
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