{"id":92,"date":"2008-11-02T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T20:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncmartincounty.wordpress.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-11-02T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T20:31:52","slug":"obituary-asa-biggs-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/obituary-asa-biggs-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"BIGGS Jr., Asa (d. 1883)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York Times<br \/>\n13 Nov 1883<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Death of Asa Biggs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Petersburg, Va., Nov 12 &#8212; Asa Biggs, the young man who was burned in his residence, in Southampton, as reported in The Times today, was a son of the late Judge Biggs, of Norfolk, and his wife, who narrowly escaped burning to death, represented one of the oldest families in this section of Virginia. \u00a0She is a highly accomplished lady, but took a fancy to young Biggs, who was very dissipated; and finally married him against the wishes of relatives on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>After the marriage Biggs left Norfolk and settled at the old family residence in Southampton. \u00a0The old house is built of colonial brick , and is an old landmark in the county. \u00a0Dr. Massenburg, the owner, died several years ago, leaving a widow and two daughters, who kept one of the grandest old homes in the country, and entertained handsomely. \u00a0The other daughter married and left home, and the mother had lived with her daughters alternately. \u00a0Biggs continued to drink after his marriage, and on Saturday night upset a lamp, set the building on fire, and perished in the flames. \u00a0It is one of the saddest affairs in the history of the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times 13 Nov 1883 Death of Asa Biggs Petersburg, Va., Nov 12 &#8212; Asa Biggs, the young man who was burned in his residence, in Southampton, as reported in The Times today, was a son of the late Judge Biggs, of Norfolk, and his wife, who narrowly escaped burning to death, represented one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/obituary-asa-biggs-jr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BIGGS Jr., Asa (d. 1883)&#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":[22485],"tags":[6858,22574],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individualdeaths","tag-biggs","tag-massenburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}