The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, September 11, 1910
pg. 2

While attending the funeral of Mrs. Birchfield, we saw a very old tombstone.  The inscription was discolored with green substance and the stone dilapidated, but it bore the words. "Joseph H. Wiggins."   He was one of the very first to be buried at Fairview, but one of the very best known to our citizens.  Everybody knew Joe Wiggins, proprietor of the Rancho Saloon.  His name is not forgotten; his memory obliterated.  Not one in a thousand of the present population will recollect Joe Wiggins.  We may well exclaim: "Sic transit gloria mundi."