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Submitted by: Jerry Huggins
Email address: jerhuggins@aol.com
 

Husband: James Oscar HUGGINS
Birthdate: 8 August 1856
Birthplace: Kickapoo Twp, Leavenworth County, KS
Death date: 17 September 1947
Place of death: Sterling, Logan County, CO
Father: HUGGINS, Benjamin Franklin
Mother: HUNDLEY, Amanda

Marriage date: 4 July 1880
Marriage place: Belton, Cass County, MO

Wife: Ida May PHILLIPS
Birthdate: 14 October 1864
Birthplace: IL
Death date: 24 May 1935
Place of death: Olathe, Johnson County, KS
Father: PHILLIPS, David
Mother: KELLY, Mary Elizabeth

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: HUGGINS, Archie
Sex: M
Birthdate: 2 May 1881
Birthplace: Belton, Cass County, MO
Death date: 15 April 1882
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Child No. 2: HUGGINS, Orpha
Sex: F
Birthdate: 2 May 1881
Birthplace: Belton, Cass County, MO
Death date: 15 October 1969
Place of death: Sterling, Logan County, CO
Marriage date: 3 September 1904
Marriage place: Lamar, Prowers County, CO
Spouse's name: TROTTER, George A.

Child No. 3: HUGGINS, Joseph Franklin
Sex: M
Birthdate: 20 April 1883
Birthplace: Geddes, Charles Mix County, SD
Death date: 16 February 1964
Place of death: Weiser, Washington County, ID
Marriage date: 23 August 1911
Marriage place: SD
Spouse's name: HAY, Amanda Augusta

Child No. 4: HUGGINS, Freddie
Sex: M
Birthdate: 19 May 1885
Birthplace: Geddes, Charles Mix County, SD
Death date: 12 January 1889
Place of death: Geddes, Charles Mix County, SD
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Child No. 5: HUGGINS, Ben F.
Sex: M
Birthdate: 12 March 1887
Birthplace: Geddes, Charles Mix County, SD
Death date: 20 August 1981
Place of death: Yankton, Yankton County, SD
Marriage date: 7 April 1915
Marriage place: Geddes, Charles Mix County, SD
Spouse's name: HANEY, Nellie Mae

Child No. 6: HUGGINS, Walter M.
Sex: M
Birthdate: 7 March 1890
Birthplace: Geddes, Charles Mix County, SD
Death date: 24 November 1960
Place of death: Lexington, Lafayett County, MO
Marriage date: Abt. 1925
Marriage place: KS
Spouse's name: BLACK, Lorena E.

Child No. 7: HUGGINS, Ora F.
Sex: M
Birthdate: 3 September 1893
Birthplace: Armour, Charles Mix County, SD
Death date: 21 November 1971
Place of death: Reno, Washoe County, NV
Marriage date: 21 July 1921
Marriage place: Crawfordville, Washington County, IA
Spouse's name: PAUL, Wilma F.

Child No. 8: HUGGINS, Ray E.
Sex: M
Birthdate: 3 September 1893
Birthplace: Armour, Charles Mix County, SD
Death date: 14 November 1985
Place of death: Lexington, Lafayett County, MO
Marriage date: 1918
Marriage place: Johnson County, KS
Spouse's name: MILLIKAN, Madeline Helen
 

Documentation: Born in Leavenworth County, Kansas five (5) miles northwest of
Leavenworth, KS. Father, Benjamin Franklin Huggins, moved his family to Johnson
County, KS in about 1870 and lived on Black Bob Indian Reservation. James Oscar
lived on the David Phillips farm (1880 Census) where he worked as a Farm Labor,
here he met and later married Ida Mae Phillips in 1880 in an elope in Belton,
MO. James Oscar and Ida Mae later moved to Geddes, SD in about 1883 and lived
there until about 1900, then the family moved to Prowers County, Colorado which
followed a move to Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas, unable to establish the farm
in Colorado.

Ref: The History of Johnson County; by Ed Blair - pg 291 Standard Publishing Co.
Lawerence, KS. 1915
   J.O. Huggins - A well known and successful Johnson County farmer, is a native of
the Sunflower State. He was born on Salt Creek, Leavenworth County Kansas,
August 8, 1856, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Amanda (Hundley) Huggins. The
father was a native of Tennessee and the mother on Kentucky. Benjamin F. Huggins
came to Kansas in 1850, and was married after coming to this State. He preempted
government land on Salt Creek, in Leavenworth County, and was a pioneer of that
section. He remained in Leavenworth County until 1865, when he came to Johnson
County and settled on the Black Bob Reservation, and followed farming there
until 1883, when he removed to Olathe, where he died in 1895. He was a Democrat
and a veteran of the Civil War. He and his wife were ardent supporters of the
Free-State cause and endured many hardships during the days of the Border War,
although they adhered strongly to their anti-slavery convictions. The mother
died in 1891. They were the parents of ten children: Eretta, deceased; Jennie,
who married Robert Baker, of Olathe; George F., of Belton, Mo.; a girl who died
in infancy; J.O., the subject of this sketch; Martha Frances resides in Olathe;
Prudie married George Folmer, of Olathe; Henry Sterling, of Olathe township;
Robert G., of Olathe, and William S., who died at the age of fifteen. J. O.
Huggins was reared in Johnson County and attended the Black Bob District School.
This was one of the primitive, pioneer school houses of Johnson County. In 1883
he went to South Dakota and took up government land, and remained in that State
for nineteen years. He then sold out, and after spending about two years in
Colorado, returned to Johnson County, in 1903, and bought a fine farm of 160
acres, three miles northwest of Olathe, where he conducts an extensive dairy
farm. He milks from forty to forty-five cows, mostly Holsteins. However, he has
some Jerseys and Shorthorns. Mr. Huggins married, July 4, 1880, to Miss Ida May
Phillips, a native of Illinois, who came to Kansas with her parents when two
years old. They located on the Black Bob Reservation, and her father, David
Phillips, now resides in South Dakota. To Mr. and Mrs. Huggins have been born
eight children, as follow: Orpha married George Trotter, Syracuse, KS,; Benjamin
F., Geddis, S.D.; Joseph F., Geddis, S.D.; Walter, a farmer of Olathe township;
Ray and Ora, twins, both associated with their father in the management of the
home place; Archie and Fred died in childhood. Mr. Huggins is a Democrat, but
has never aspired to hold political office; however, he has served as clerk of
the school board and held other minor offices. He is a member of the Grange, the
Modern Woodmen of America and of the Baptist Church.

Obituary: Sterling Journal - Advocate, Logan County, CO September 20, 1947
James Oscar Huggins, Farmer Kansan, Dies Wednesday in Sterling
   Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock next Monday afternoon at
Olathe, KS for James Oscar Huggins, who died at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in
Sterling, at the age of 92 years. Mr. Huggins, who spent much of his life in
Kansas, had visited for the past months at the home of his daughter, Mrs Orpha
McRoberts, in Sterling. For three days he was a patient at a local hospital.
   Mr. Huggins was born August 8, 1855 at Leavenworth, KS. In 1881 he went to
Charles Mix county of South Dakota, where he took a homestead. In 1901 he
located at Holly, CO where he remained for two years. He then established his
home at Olathe, KS, where he has since lived until the past month. He was
married July 4, 1878, at Belton, MO, to Ida May Phillips. He held membership in
the Bapist church at Olathe, KS. Surviving Mr. Huggins are a daughter, Mrs.
Orpha McRoberts of Sterling: five sons, Joseph Huggins of Olathe, KS, Benjamin
Huggins of Geddes, SD, Walter Huggins of Northyne, MO, Ray Huggins and Ora
Huggins of Downieville, OR; 27 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren and a
sister, Miss Mollie Huggins of Olathe, KS.
   Funeral arrangements are by the Radford Funeral home of Sterling.

Obituary: Olathe Daily News, Johnson County, KS
James Oscar Huggins
   James Oscar Huggins, was born in Leavenworth, KS, August 8, 1856, and passed
away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Orpha MacRoberts, in Sterling, CO,
Wednesday, September 17, 1947.
   He was the son of Benjamin Huggins and Amanda Huggins. The family moved to
Johnson County, KS in 1870 and bought a farm in the Black Bob Reservation, where
James Oscar Huggins grew to manhood. He was married to Ida May Phillips in 1880.
   Mr. and Mrs. Huggins moved to Geddes, South Dakota, in 1882 and homesteaded a
farm near Geddes, where they lived until 1900. Then they moved to Colorado in
the sugar beet district where they lived for two years. In 1902 they moved to
Olathe vicinity where lived until their deaths. Mrs. Ida May Huggins passed away
May 24, 1935. Mr. Huggins went to Colorado to his daughter's home in May 1947.
He was 91 years, 1 month and 9 days of age at the time of his death. He was a
member of the Baptist church.
   He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Orpha McRoberts, Sterling, CO, five sons,
Joseph Huggins, Olathe, KS; Benjamin Huggins, Geddes, SD; Walter Huggins,
Norborne, MO; Ora Huggins and Ray Huggins, California; also one sister, Miss
Mollie Huggins, Olathe, twenty-five grandchildren, twenty-two great-
grandchildren.
   Funeral services in the Julien Chapel at Olathe, KS, Monday afternoon, September
22, 1947. Interment Olathe city cemetery.