Shasta County Biographies

WILLIAM MERRIMAN TUGGLE

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William Merriman Tuggle, second son of William Harvey and Melinda Ferrel Tuggle, 
was born March 15, 1855 while the family still lived in Keokuk, Iowa. His mother 
had two sons by a previous marriage so he was the youngest of four boys. They 
came to Shasta County by covered wagon in 1862.
 
The family settled in Red Bluff where William H. ran a stable. Later they moved 
to Shasta County. Following their father's work, at various times they lived at 
Shingletown, Parkville and Balls Ferry. The children enjoyed all of them because 
they loved the outdoors and later fishing and hunting.
 
Mary Elizabeth Hammans, daughter of Henry Sr. and Hannah Moss Hammans was 
born February 3, 1859 in Johnson County, Iowa. Arriving in Shasta County in 1863, 
the Hammans family was one of the families who came during the Civil War.
 
A year before his marriage to Mary Elizabeth, William was living in Shingletown. 
On August 26, 1877, Justice of the Peace Joseph Darrah officiated so they were 
married somewhere near Millville. At seventeen, Mary had to have her mother's 
permission. The couple had six children:
 
Carrie; b. June 18, 1879; d. July 12, 1960; m. Charles Bland

Cora; b. June 17, 1880; d. Dec 5, 1964; m. Joseph Branham

Lucy; b. Feb 16, 1882; d. Jan 11,1960; m. Arthur Litzenburg, m. George Algalbright m. Muir

Otto; b. Dec 7, 1886; d. Feb 19, 1956; m. Cora Sutton

Harry; b. April 20, 1889; d. Jan 11, 1924; m. Wanda Hammans

Homer b. Aug 12, 1896; d. Jan 14, 1982; m. Vera Underwood
 
After Homer's birth, the couple separated. About 1910 Mary and three of her 
children were living in Corning but little more is known of her life. She died 
February 25, 1937 and is buried in the Redding Cemetery.
 
In the first decade of the Twentieth Century, William was living in Centerville; 
in 1909, he married another resident of that place, Julia Etta Barney Tuggle. A 
1920 Census shows them living in Igo. William died in 1921 and is buried in 
Parkville Pioneer Cemetery in the Tuggle family plot. Julia survived him by 
seven years; she died November 20, 1928 in Shasta County, but the place of 
burial is unknown. 
 
Source:  Shasta Historical Society - May 2003