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Zilpha Ham Huggins

Birth
Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Death
16 Jun 1871 (aged 60–61)
Burial
Cremated, Other Add to Map
Memorial ID
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She married Rev. John Samuel Huggins (1810-1879) about the year 1829. She was a native of Darlington County, where she shared in the division of her father's estate and was the mother of 13 children.

Zilpha rode her horse side saddle and one Sunday riding home from church, her horse was frightened and threw her off. Her hip was broken in the accident and never healed. She was expecting at the time of the accident and the ladies of the church came bearing gifts and names for the child. She wrote down all of the names offered and promised to use them all. Her last child was named Frances Cornelia Emerintha Olevia Sara Rebecca Julia Josephine Eugenia Sophronia Victoria Queen of South Carolina.

Sources: John Huggins I of Sea Wee Bay by Otis Prince and The House of Hughes and Dunehoe and their many Relatives by Rebecca Hughes Dunehoe
She married Rev. John Samuel Huggins (1810-1879) about the year 1829. She was a native of Darlington County, where she shared in the division of her father's estate and was the mother of 13 children.

Zilpha rode her horse side saddle and one Sunday riding home from church, her horse was frightened and threw her off. Her hip was broken in the accident and never healed. She was expecting at the time of the accident and the ladies of the church came bearing gifts and names for the child. She wrote down all of the names offered and promised to use them all. Her last child was named Frances Cornelia Emerintha Olevia Sara Rebecca Julia Josephine Eugenia Sophronia Victoria Queen of South Carolina.

Sources: John Huggins I of Sea Wee Bay by Otis Prince and The House of Hughes and Dunehoe and their many Relatives by Rebecca Hughes Dunehoe

Gravesite Details

Probably buried at Ebenezer Methodist Cemetery, Muddy Creek, SC where she was living at the time of her death.



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