{"id":90,"date":"2008-10-29T22:57:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncmartincounty.wordpress.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-10-29T22:57:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:57:29","slug":"asa-biggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/asa-biggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Asa Biggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ncmartincounty.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/asabiggs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21 aligncenter\" title=\"asabiggs\" src=\"http:\/\/ncmartincounty.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/asabiggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of Asa Biggs, former US Senator born in Williamston, Martin County, in 1811. \u00a0I&#8217;ve added a Biographical Profiles page and started with some information about him. \u00a0Since Asa was quite famous, there is a lot of inforamtion about him already online.<\/p>\n<p>One item of note for anyone researching the family, the NC State Archives has some of the family bible records. \u00a0Accessioned to the collection in 2005, <a href=\"http:\/\/ncgenealogy.blogspot.com\/2005_12_01_archive.html\">they described it as such<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Biggs<\/span>. Some Bible and Cemetery Records of the Asa Biggs Family: Booklet 1. Bible Records, by Edwin R. MacKethan, III. Bible records of the Joseph and Chloe Daniel Biggs family, 1766-2001, with particular reference to the family of Senator Asa Biggs [Martin County]; 1 spiral-bound book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a picture of Asa Biggs, former US Senator born in Williamston, Martin County, in 1811. \u00a0I&#8217;ve added a Biographical Profiles page and started with some information about him. \u00a0Since Asa was quite famous, there is a lot of inforamtion about him already online. One item of note for anyone researching the family, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/asa-biggs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asa Biggs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22497],"tags":[6858],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-biggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}