{"id":3351,"date":"2015-03-08T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2015-03-08T13:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T18:30:21","slug":"elizabeth-biggs-1856","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/elizabeth-biggs-1856\/","title":{"rendered":"BIGGS, Elizabeth &#8211; (d. 1856)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Died at her residence near this place, on the morning of the 18th inst., after a painful illness of several weeks, <strong>Mrs. Elizabeth BIGGS<\/strong>, wife of <strong>Jos. D. BIGGS Esq.<\/strong>\u00a0in the 39th year of her age. \u00a0She leaves a husband to mourn her loss besides an infant a month old. \u00a0Her afflictions were severe and protracted, but she endured them with great christian fortitude and to the last moment of consciousness seemed perfectly resigned to the will of God. \u00a0She seemed aware from the first of her approaching dissolution and fell into the embraces of death without a murmur. \u00a0As the king of terrors approached, her faith in the Redeemer of sinners became stronger and she died in the full hope of blessed immortality. \u00a0Among her last words were these, &#8220;O what a salvation, what a great salvation is this.&#8221; \u00a0How calm, how happy and how\u00a0encouraging\u00a0to others are the last moments of a Christian. &#8212; Com.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Since the above was written, the little motherless Babe has winged it&#8217;s flight to Heaven. &#8212;\u00a0<i>Eds. Banner<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>Source: \u00a0Democratic Banner, 7 August 1856. Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\">DigitalNC.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Died at her residence near this place, on the morning of the 18th inst., after a painful illness of several weeks, Mrs. Elizabeth BIGGS, wife of Jos. D. BIGGS Esq.\u00a0in the 39th year of her age. \u00a0She leaves a husband to mourn her loss besides an infant a month old. \u00a0Her afflictions were severe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2958,195],"tags":[2961,2962],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-democratic-banner","category-martin","tag-biggs-elizabeth","tag-biggs-jos-d"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-S3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}