A. R. Biggs is a prominent citizen and farmer of the First District of Dyer County; was born in North Carolina in 1842, and was one of a family of five children, three of them living. His parents were W. W. and Matilda Biggs. His father was born in North Carolina, September 8, 1817; was married and remained in his native county until 1846; then removed to Dyer County; he was a farmer by occupation and died in 1883. He had been sheriff in his county in North Carolina, for many years before leaving there. His mother was a native of North Carolina, and was born about 1818, and now lives at the old homestead in Crockett County, which was formerly a part of Dyer County. Our subject received his education in Friendship, Tenn., and in 1870 married Miss Susie, daughter of Thomas W. Jones. She was born in Gibson County in 1851. They have four children: Mark E., Willie R., Thomas J. and Lucy E. In 1874 Mr. Biggs located on the farm where he now resides, it being then heavily timbered. He owns 362 acres of fine land well improved. He enlisted May, 1861, in Company B, Twelfth Tennessee Infantry, under Col. Russell and Capt. Marion Walker. He was in the battles of Belmont and Shiloh, and was severely wounded in the left arm. At the close of the war he went into the mercantile business at Friendship, but in 1874 commenced farming; is a Democrat and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Biggs is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.