Sheriff of Salem County for 2 terms circa 1893-96. He was postmaster of Sharptown, NJ and owned a general store. Some references show his last name incorrectly as Wiggins.
Obituary published in Woodstown, Salem Co, NJ newspaper "The Monitor-Register" on Friday, April 20th, 1900; page 1:
"Obituary --
Oliver H. Wriggins died at the home of his son-in-law, C.C. Ford Jr., in Salem, last evening. The deceased was born on a farm near the Old Pilesgrove Meeting House, in 1852, and as a young man he clerked in a store in Philadelphia and also for J.H. Peterson in Woodstown. He afterward went with his brothers John and Joseph as clerk in the store at Sharptown, and when the store was purchased at Harrisonville, he became a member of the firm on the death of Joseph, and finally succeeding to the store at Sharptown. He continued here until 1893, in the fall of which year he was elected Sheriff of Salem County on the Republican ticket, by a majority of 68 over the late Charles V. Armstrong, of Alloway, who had just preceded him to the land from which no traveler returns. At the close of his term as Sheriff, he engaged in mercantile business in Salem, until incapacitated for active work by a stroke of paralysis just a year ago, from which he never recovered, but gradually declined.
He leaves a wife and three children, two sons and a daughter.
The funeral will take place on Monday morning, with internment at Sharptown Cemetery."
Obituary published in Woodstown, Salem Co, NJ newspaper "The Monitor-Register" on Friday, April 20th, 1900; page 1:
"Obituary --
Oliver H. Wriggins died at the home of his son-in-law, C.C. Ford Jr., in Salem, last evening. The deceased was born on a farm near the Old Pilesgrove Meeting House, in 1852, and as a young man he clerked in a store in Philadelphia and also for J.H. Peterson in Woodstown. He afterward went with his brothers John and Joseph as clerk in the store at Sharptown, and when the store was purchased at Harrisonville, he became a member of the firm on the death of Joseph, and finally succeeding to the store at Sharptown. He continued here until 1893, in the fall of which year he was elected Sheriff of Salem County on the Republican ticket, by a majority of 68 over the late Charles V. Armstrong, of Alloway, who had just preceded him to the land from which no traveler returns. At the close of his term as Sheriff, he engaged in mercantile business in Salem, until incapacitated for active work by a stroke of paralysis just a year ago, from which he never recovered, but gradually declined.
He leaves a wife and three children, two sons and a daughter.
The funeral will take place on Monday morning, with internment at Sharptown Cemetery."
Sheriff of Salem County for 2 terms circa 1893-96. He was postmaster of Sharptown, NJ and owned a general store. Some references show his last name incorrectly as Wiggins.
Obituary published in Woodstown, Salem Co, NJ newspaper "The Monitor-Register" on Friday, April 20th, 1900; page 1:
"Obituary --
Oliver H. Wriggins died at the home of his son-in-law, C.C. Ford Jr., in Salem, last evening. The deceased was born on a farm near the Old Pilesgrove Meeting House, in 1852, and as a young man he clerked in a store in Philadelphia and also for J.H. Peterson in Woodstown. He afterward went with his brothers John and Joseph as clerk in the store at Sharptown, and when the store was purchased at Harrisonville, he became a member of the firm on the death of Joseph, and finally succeeding to the store at Sharptown. He continued here until 1893, in the fall of which year he was elected Sheriff of Salem County on the Republican ticket, by a majority of 68 over the late Charles V. Armstrong, of Alloway, who had just preceded him to the land from which no traveler returns. At the close of his term as Sheriff, he engaged in mercantile business in Salem, until incapacitated for active work by a stroke of paralysis just a year ago, from which he never recovered, but gradually declined.
He leaves a wife and three children, two sons and a daughter.
The funeral will take place on Monday morning, with internment at Sharptown Cemetery."
Obituary published in Woodstown, Salem Co, NJ newspaper "The Monitor-Register" on Friday, April 20th, 1900; page 1:
"Obituary --
Oliver H. Wriggins died at the home of his son-in-law, C.C. Ford Jr., in Salem, last evening. The deceased was born on a farm near the Old Pilesgrove Meeting House, in 1852, and as a young man he clerked in a store in Philadelphia and also for J.H. Peterson in Woodstown. He afterward went with his brothers John and Joseph as clerk in the store at Sharptown, and when the store was purchased at Harrisonville, he became a member of the firm on the death of Joseph, and finally succeeding to the store at Sharptown. He continued here until 1893, in the fall of which year he was elected Sheriff of Salem County on the Republican ticket, by a majority of 68 over the late Charles V. Armstrong, of Alloway, who had just preceded him to the land from which no traveler returns. At the close of his term as Sheriff, he engaged in mercantile business in Salem, until incapacitated for active work by a stroke of paralysis just a year ago, from which he never recovered, but gradually declined.
He leaves a wife and three children, two sons and a daughter.
The funeral will take place on Monday morning, with internment at Sharptown Cemetery."
Gravesite Details
Date of death on marker may be 1906, but other sources support 1900. Inscription on W face of monument (facing short end of the cemetery).
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