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By Wayne F. Baldwin
Rappahannock News Writer
Time is all too often a harsh element on humanity, not to mention those things this same humanity struggles to build and leave as a memorial to future posterity. And speaking of time...as it passes, memories fade, icons crumble and if we've left an impression here or there for awhile it will be remembered, perhaps.
Failing to remember myself that our time is swift and limited. Having written a much more detailed piece on this subject the extent of it could not be printed in our Rappahannock News due to lack of space. Therefore, I've shortened the text and hope I can by its brevity relate as complete a record as possible. Anyone interested in the longer version may contact me.
The title speaks for itself, but who was Fanny Wiggington? Fanny Jackson was a native born Rappahannockian. Born sometime between the years 1834 and 1855, the later I suggest to be most accurate as it comes from official "courthouse" records. Fanny was a slave! Owned, I was told, originally by the Thornton family, being sold five times and ending up with her last owner in Richmond shortly before the Union forces took that city during the Civil War.
Making her way back to Rappahannock she lead a life of servitude, although free so far as the law went. Freedom without rights and equality is no more than slavery in disguise. In those days the extend of ones freedom depended on who was in charge it seems, and not to mention that there should be a relationship of any degree. There were many relationships between the whites and blacks.
On Jan. 26, 1875 she married her first husband, Samuel Wiggington. Sam had been previously married and had five children by his first wife who died giving birth to the fifth.
In 1880, Samuel Wiggington purchased from Charles and Columbia Woodard a two and one fourth acre lot with a small house on it, down on the F.% Grade Road. Soon after Sam Wiggington was found dead, either by accident or murder. Sam and
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