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Friday, February 19, 2021

Mrs. Wigley of Sand Mountain

Mrs. Wigley, of Sand Mountain, Alabama. 

Georgia: The Dade County Sentinel has some references to a Mrs. Wigley, who lived on Sand Mountain and died in 1895. She had a son named Thomas Cumming, who probably lived near Trenton, Dade County, Georgia. 

C.W. soldier's grave near Mrs. Wigley's on Sand Mountain. Mrs. Wigley's home is mentioned as a place on Sand Mountain [Alabama], six miles west of Trenton (Dade, Georgia). The article is an old 1891 fundraising effort to raise money to erect a tombstone over the grave of a Confederate soldier, Charley Henson, whose grave lies near the home of Mrs. Wigley, on Sand Mountain, 'six miles west of here' (that is, west of Trenton, Dade, Georgia).

[Source]: Mrs. Wigley (mention), 'A Lone Grave,' /State of Dade News/  (Trenton, Dade, Georgia) 1891-1901, 29 May 1891, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (Gallileo). 
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053749/1891-05-29/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_561x817_from_1659,5752_to_2639,7178/ (clipped section of page accessed 29 Feb. 2020). 
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Death of Mrs. Wigley, 1895
[Source]: Mention of Mrs. Wigley's death at her home on Sand Mountain, in 'Brevities,' State of Dade News; it says she was the mother of Thomas Cumming. (Trenton, Dade, Georgia) 1891-1901, Friday, 10 May 1895, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (Gallileo); accessed 27 Feb. 2020.

I was unable to identify the people. Since the surnames don't match, it could mean there is a step-relationship between mother and son, or it could be the mother was a Mrs. Cumming, who later remarried. (These are just two possibilities). In old sources, they'll even leave off "in-law," so she could even be Thomas's mother-in-law instead of his mother. 

All we really know is that Mrs. Wigley lived on Sand Mountain, lived near a Confederate soldier's grave, and died herself in 1895.