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From: "Jess Wilson" <>
Subject: Re: [KYCLAY-L] Jess Wilson's Grandfather Pigg
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 06:43:39 -0400


Shirley, I suffered too many taunts during my childhood, because my mother
was a Pigg, that I have no modesty when it comes to bragging that my Pigg
ancestors were very rich, high born gentry, almost royalty. I claim that if
the Puritans of England under Oliver Cromwell had not cut off the head of
Charles I in 1649, I would not have been born in 1918, because that
beheading caused my gggggggg grandfather to get in his own ship and come to
America in 1650.

In all honesty, I will have to say that by the time I was born all those
riches had disappeared and grandfather Pigg had to dig coal for a living,
but he had a pretty good education, al though, he still used "es" instead
of "s" when he wanted to add the plural case to a noun as in "postes"
rather than "post" just the way Charles I, King of England would have done
if the Puritans hadn't cut off his head.
JESS WILSON
POSSUM TROT ROAD
MANCHESTER, KY 40962

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> Subject: [KYCLAY-L] Jess Wilson's Grandfather Pigg
> Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 7:57 PM
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> Hello All,
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> I just read a portion of "The History of Pittsylvania County," which
> attributes the naming of the Pigg River to Jess' grandfather, Paul Pigg.

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> Jess, you've been holding out on us. Just think, a body of water that
will
> eternally roll to the sea was named for your forebear! WHEW!
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> Well, I'M IMPRESSED!
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> Shirley
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