This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: joiler_1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/9992.2.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: David Morgan Salmons is my great grand father, my grandfather was William Anderson Salmons, sending a Copy of obit for Mary Susan Salmons Riggs. ASHLAND, KY DAILY INDENPENT - MAY 9, 1944 MRS. MARY SUSAN SALMONS RIGGS, 84, WIDOW OF REV. THOMAS J. RIGGS, FORMER PASTOR OF THE FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH, DIED AT 9:35 A.M. TODAY AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. S.J. JOHNSON OF 2037 MAIN STREET, WESTWOOD. MRS. RIGGS HAD BEEN SERIOUSLY ILL FOR THE PAST 3 MONTHS. SHE HAD RESIDED IN ASHLAND FOR THE PAST YEAR, COMING HERE FROM AUXIER, KY. A DESCENDANT OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR HEROES JOHN PORTER AND JOHN HAGER, GREAT-GRANDFATHERS OF THE DECEASED, MRS. RIGGS WAS BORN FEBRUARY 19, 1860 IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, A DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH AND CATHERINE HAGER SALMONS. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 1 P.M. THURSDAY FROM THE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, WESTWOOD, WITH THE REV. W.K. WOOD, REV. ELI WILLIAMS AND THE REV. P.O. CARPENTER OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WILL BE MADE IN THE DIXON CEMETERY. THE BODY IS AT THE LAZEAR FUNERAL HOME AND WILL REMAIN THERE UNTIL 11:30 A. M. THURSDAY WHEN IT WILL BE TAKEN TO THE CHURCH TO LIE IN STATE ONE HOUR AND THIRTY MINUTES PRECEDING THE FUNERAL HOUR. SURVIVING ARE A DAUGHTER, MRS. S. J. JOHNSON, WESTWOOD; 2 STEP-SONS, CHARLES J. RICE, ASHLAND AND HARRY B. RICE OF BATTLE CREEK, MICH; FOUR STEP-DAUGHTERS, MRS. VIRGIE STONE, ASHLAND; MRS. ALICE HURT, OAKANAUGAN, WASH.; MRS. BERTHA MAY, WINATCHEE, WASH.; AND MRS. ROSE CAUDILL OF SWAMP BRANCH, KY. SIX GRANDCHILDREN, MRS. PAUL PFENING, ERIE, PA.; MRS. ROBERT FULTON, ERIE; MRS. HOWARD ANSON, NORRISTOWN, PA.; MISSES JOSEPHINE, LOIS AND RUTH JOHNSON, ALL AT HOME, ONE SISTER, MRS. JOSEPHINE HAGER, ELK CITY, OKLA.; ONE BROTHER, DAVID SALMONS, LOUISA, KY., AND 3 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. NOTE: HER DAUGHTER'S OBITUARY GIVES HER FATHER'S LAST NAME AS POOLE. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.