FOR THE RECORD THESE ARE MY NOTE ON 4 PEOPLE THAT I BELIEVE ARE BROTHERS OR ELSE VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER. I WORKED WITH 2 OTHER WOMEN FOR YEARS ON THIS MESS AND I AM STILL NOT SURE IF MY HENRY RIGGIN AND HIS BROTHER FOR SURE JOHN RIGGIN OR RELATED TO JAMES JOSEPH RIGGINS OR WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS( I HAVE SEEN IT ALSO AS JUST POWELL RIGGINS) . I AM NOT EVEN SURE THAT JAMES AND WILLIAM POWELL OR POWELL ARE RELATED YET TO MY JOHN AND HENRY. NOW SEE MY NOTES ON WILLIAM RIGGIN THAT I BELIEVE IS THE FATHER OF MY HENRY AND JOHN. NOTES ON WILLIAM RIGGIN: ELLEN GASKILL DAY GRANDDAUGHTER OF MAHALA RIGGIN WAS TOLD THAT THREE BROTHERS WILL, JOE AND JOHN LIVED IN N.C. MOVED TO TENN, KY AND THEN MOVED NORTH. JOHN SETTLED IN MADISON CO.,ILL, WILL AND JOE SETTLED SOMEWHERE NEAR ST. LOUIS. THEIR FATHER WAS WILLIAM RIGGIN, A REVOLUTINARY WAR VETERAN. INDEX OF RIGGIN FAMILIES, BY MRS DANIEL STONE KELTE, PAGE 10, MENTIONS A LETTER WRITTEN BY MISS FRANCIS RIGGIN TO MRS. KELTE. SHE WROTE THAT HER GREAT GRANDFATHER, THOMAS MAGNUS RIGGIN OF ST. LOUIS, MO., SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT THREE BROS. WILL, JOE AND JOHN CAME FROM N.C. IN THE EARLY 1800'S. THE THREE BROTHERS WERE BORN IN OR NEAR RALEIGH, N.C. NOTE THE 2 DIFFERENCE SOURCES. I BELIEVE THIS TO BE TWO KEY STATEMENTS. WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS, JAMES JOSEPH RIGGINS AND JOHN RIGGIN FROM MO AND ILL WERE ALL 3 BORN IN NC. WILL, JOE AND JOHN............MAKE GOOD SENSE TO ME. WILLIAM RIGGIN - FROM MADISON CO., ILL HISTORY PP. 51 SEPT 6, 1819 APPOINTED CONESTABLE SILVER CREEK TWP, PUT UP BOND AND SECURITY OF $500.00. NOTES ON HENRY RIGGIN: HENRY RIGGIN BURIED AT MARINE CITY CEMETERY IN MADISON CO., ILL. WE KNOW FROM HIS HEAD STONE THAT HE WAS A NATIVE OF TENN. AND IT IS SAID THAT HIS FATHER WAS WILLIAM RIGGIN WHO WAS A REV. WAR SOLDIER. THERE ARE MANY INTERESTING STORIES OF HENRY THAT WAS FOUND IN THE S.I.U. LAW LIBRARY IN EDWARDVILLE, ILL. ALSO SEE MY BOOK FOR MORE DETAILS. IT APPEARS THAT HENRY WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL FARMER AND HAD MONEY FOR THESE DAYS. HE DIED VERY YOUNG AT AGE 42. HE WAS INVOLVED IN A LAW SUIT BETWEEN HIS BROTHER JOHN AND WIFE MARGARET. OF COURSE HENRY TAKING THE SIDE OF JOHN. NOTES ON JOHN RIGGIN: JOHN RIGGIN WAS ALSO MARRIED TO EVA COPENBERGER MARCH 9 1840 IN MADISON CO. ILL. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN - SUSAN B. 1839 AND JOHN B. 1843. JOHN WAS DIVORCED FROM MARGARET EITHER IN 1839 OR 1840 AFTER A BITTER COURT BATTLES. RECORDS OF THIS ARE FOUND AT THE S.I.U. LAW LIBRARY AT EDWARDSVILLE ILL. THESE RECORDS ARE ALSO HELD BY DOROTHY BANGERT, C. C. CONKWRIGHT AND VIRGINIA DEWAN. THESE THREE PEOPLE HAVE ONE OF THE BEST COLLECTIONS OF RIGGIN'S PAPER KNOW AT THIS TIME IN MADISON CO., ILL. IN LEGAL COURT PAPER FROM MADISON CO., ILL IT STATES IN THE DIVORCE PAPERS THAT JOHN AND PEGGY WERE MARRIED IN TENN IN 1807 AND MOVED TO MADISON IN THE YEAR 1816 OR 1817. JOHN LEFT HIS WIFE ABOUT THE 28 OF APRIL 1838 AND WAS LIVING WITH EVA COPENBRERGER IN THE STATE OF MO. ACCORDING TO DIV PAPERS ON JOHN AND MARGARET FARRIS RIGGIN. THEY MOVE FROM TENN IN TO ILL IN EITHER 1816 OR 1817. JOHN AND MARGARET "PEGGY" WERE MARRIED IN 1807 IN TENN IN THE SAME PAPERS. JOHN RIGGIN A PETITIONED TO BE A VIEWER OF A ROAD PP. 256 SEPT 4, 1821 NOTES ON POWELL OR WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS: FROM THE WILL OF POWELL RIGGINS FROM THE MEXICO, AUDRAIN CO., MO. COURTHOUSE: I, COURT CONKWRIGHT FOUND THIS ON 1 APR 1991 AND HAS A COPY OF IT. I POWELL RIGGINS OF THE COUNTY OF AUDRAIN AND THE STATE OF MO, BEING OLD BUT IN SOUND MIND AND DISPOSING MEMORY FOR WHICH I THANK GOD AND CALLING TO MIND THE UNCERTAINLY OF HUMAN LIFE AND BEING DESIROUS TO DISPOSE OF ALL SUCH WORLDLY ESTATE AS IT HAS PLEASE GOD TO BLESS ME WITH, DO GIVE AND BEQUEATH THE SAME IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER TO WIT: THAT IS TO SAY I DESIRE THAT ALL MY JUST DEBTS HE PAID. 2ND: I GIVE A BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED WIFE PATSY RIGGINS ALL OF MY ESTATE, REAL AND PERSONAL AND TO MIXED AND TO ALL INTEREST THEREIN TO HAVE AND TO HOLD ABSOLUTELY TO DO WITH AND DISPOSE OF AS SHE SHALL THINK FIT DURING HER NATURAL LIKE AND IF IN CARE MY SAID WIFE, PATSY RIGGINS, SHOULD DIE WITHOUT ISSUE THEN THE BALANCE OF THERE SHOULD BE ANY LEFT AT HER DEATH, TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY GRANDCHILDREN, THAT IS TO SAY, THE CHILDREN OF JAMES RIGGINS AND JOHN MINER AS I HAVE GIVEN IN MY LIFETIME TO MY SON JOHN RIGGIN THAT I EVER INTEND HIM TO HAVE IN MY LIFE OR AFTER MY DEATH; ALSO I HAVE GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER NANCY BRASHEAR ALL I HAVE EVER INTENDED HER TO HAVE IN MY LIFE OR AFTER MY DEATH. IN TESTIMONY WHERE OF, I POWELL RIGGINS DO SET MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 22 DAY OF FEB 1853. WITNESS BY JOHN A PEARSON AND NANCY PERSON. I SUBSCRIBED THE TESTATORS NAME AT HIS REQUEST JOHN A PERSON. POWELL WAS ALSO KNOWN AS WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS, ONE OF THE 3 BROTHERS. HE ALSO HAD LAND IN THE FOLLOW AREAS OF MONROE CO., MO. SECTION 10 TWP 52-53 RANGE 10 ALSO A PIECE AT SECTION 35. LAND RECORDS IN AUDRAIN CO., MO: GRANTORS GRANTEES BOOK PAGE 18 OCT 1844 POWELL RIGGINS AND WIFE MARY JOHN MINER 248/249 31 MAY 1851 POWELL RIGGINS AND WIFE POLLY $400. JOHN BRASHEAR C 514 31 MAY 1851 POWELL RIGGINS AND WIFE POLLY 300. JOHN RIGGINS C 517 24 APR 1852 POWELL RIGGINS AND WIFE MARY 100. ELIZABETH FAIRR D 168-169 18 OCT 1844 POWELL RIGGINS 150. JOHN MINER B 250 25 OCT 1853 POWELL RIGGINS AND WIFE PATSY 1400. ENOCK DOLD D 413 31 MAY 1851 POWELL RIGGINS 80 ACRES JOHN BRASHEAR C 516 17 OCT 1854 PATSY RIGGINS $1800. GEORGE F BROWNING E 305.6 POWELL SIGNED WITH A "X" ON THE LAND RECORDS IT APPEARS THAT PATSY RIGGINS WAS WITH CHILD THE YEAR THAT POWELL DIED. SHE REMARRIED TO A L. FISHER IN AUDRAIN CO. AND THE CHILD WILLIAM RIGGINS IS SHOWN LIVING WITH HER AND NEW HUSBANDS FAMILY. THIS IS IN THE 1860 AUDRAIN FEDERAL CENSUS. 9/22/2007 Maryellen take a look at this land plot record that I found in Mexico, Audrain Co., MO in 1991. The more I look at it the more I am now wondering if just maybe the William P. Riggins and Powell Riggins are not the same person. I have always believe that it was the one and the same William Powell Riggins. You will also remember that a William P. Riggins witnessed the buying of land of my Henry Riggin in Madison Co., ILL. Again I believe it was the one and same from Audrain. A brother to Henry and John Riggin. In the will of Powell Riggins that I have it is signed Powell and not William. Now it could be the William Powell Riggins who was the son of James Joseph Riggin of Cole Co., MO. This W.P.Riggins was born in 1813 and the land records I see was bought in 1840, which mean he was owing land next to his uncle Powell and is the right age to be buying land. You will also see a John Brashear who is listed on one of the records, who was the son in law to Powell Riggins. John Brashear married Nancy Riggins Powell daughter. If this is correct then we can see a connection for sure between the James Joseph Riggins son William P. and my Henry Riggin in Madison Co., ILL. Do you follow my line of thinking? Court p.s. If he was William Powell Riggins it appears that he only went by Powell. NOTES ON JAMES JOSEPH RIGGINS: FROM THE HISTORY OF BOONE CO., MO. BY WILLIAM F SWITZLER.: JOSEPH RIGGINS, WAS BORN IN N.C., BUT WHEN QUITE A YOUNG MAN EMIGRATED TO KENTUCKY, WHERE HE MARRIED MISS BARZILLIA LAWLESS, THE MOTHER OF THE DOCTOR(G W RIGGINS). THEY LIVED IN KENTUCKY FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND IN 1816 CAME TO MO. AND LOCATED IN HOWARD COUNTY, AND BUILT THE FIRST CABIN WHERE THE TOWN OF OLD FRANKLIN WA AFTERWARDS BUILT. THE SITE OF THE PRESENT CITY OF BOONVILLE, OPPOSITE THE TOWN OF OLD FRANKLIN, WA THEN A DENSE THICKET, AND THE INDIANS ROAMED THE FOREST AND KILLED THE SETTLERS AT THEIR OWN SWEET WILL. MR RIGGINS HAD NO NEIGHBORS NEARER THAN THE FORTS ABOVE AND BELOW HIS BACIN, AT TOO GREAT A DISTANCE TO AFFORD HIS CONSTANT PROTECTION. SEVERAL OF HIS NEIGHBORS WERE KILLED BY THE INDIANS, AFTER THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAD BECOME MORE THICKLY SETTLED. HE LIVED AT OLD FRANKLIN ABOUT FOUR YEARS AND THEN BOUGHT THE FARM UPON WHICH DOCTOR G W RIGGINS WAS BORN. HE SHORTLY AFTERWARDS MOVED TO COLE CO., MO, WHERE HE DIED IN 1849 IN HIS SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR. HIS WIDOW SURVIVED HIM SEVERAL YEARS AND DIED AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY YEARS. IT IS BELIEVED THAT HIS GIVEN NAME WAS JAMES JOSEPH RIGGINS AND HE LATER DROPPED THE JAMES. IN THE 1819-1826 MO TAX PAYERS FROM CALLOWAY CO., MO THE NAMES OF JAMES AND POWELL CAN BE FOUND. FROM THE CEMETERIES IN COLE COUNTY, MO AS RECORDED IN THE 1930'S PART I: BURYING FOUND ON THE FARM OF EDWARD DUENKEL TWP 43 NORTH - RANGE 12 - SECTION 29. ON THE STONE IT READ "ERECTED BY HIS WIFE, BURZILLA RIGGINS." 70 YRS 7 MO 7 DA. FROM THE CEMETERIES IN COLE COUNTY, MO. AS RECORDED IN THE 1930'S - NOTES PAGE 203: PAGE 60 --JAMES RIGGINS HAD AN ADMINISTRATION DTED 8 JAN 1848 (418A-12), WITH WILLIAM P. AND THOMAS B. RIGGINS AS THE ADMINISTRATORS. JAMES WIFE, BURZILLA, BORN 1795, D AFTER THE 1850 CENSUS. NOTES ON SARAH PATTERSON RIGGIN: THIS NOTE WAS WRITTEN BY J.S. ROBERT THE 1ST COUSIN OF MY MOTHER NELDA L. RIGGIN CONKWRIGHT. IT WAS WRITTEN ON JULY 5, 1974 IN GRESHAM, OR. "THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO ME, J. S. ROBERT, BY HENRY RIGGIN, IN GREENVILLE, ILL IN 1944 JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH. HENRY RIGGIN WAS A BROTHER OF OUR GRANDFATHER, CHARLES E. RIGGIN, WHO PASSED AWAY IN THE 1920'S. THE RIGGIN'S WERE DESECENDED FROM THE CHEROKEE INDIANS ON THEIR MOTHER'S SIDE AND THERE MOTHER CAME FROM THE CAROLINAS AS AN INFANT OVER WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS - THE TRAIL OF TEARS. THE CHEROKEES WERE DRIVEN OUT OF THE CAROLINAS BY THE WHITE SETTLERS AND WERE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE SO MUCH AS A BLANKET. MANY DIED ENROUTE, HENCE THE NAME - TRAIL OF TEARS. WHO EVER HAD THE CARE OF CHARLES. E. RIGGINS MOTHER SETTLED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF OF MEXICO, MO. WHERE GREAT GRANDMOTHER RIGGIN WAS MARRIED AND HAD AT LEAST TWO OF HER CHILDREN WHO WERE BORN THERE BEFORE AND DURINGTHE CIVIL WAR. WHEN QUANTRILLS RAIDERS AND OTHER OUTLAW BANDS BEGAN RAIDING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD GREAT GRANDMOTHER RIGGIN BUNDLED UP HER TWO OLDEST CHILDREN(ALL SHE HAD AT THE TIME)AND RODE HORSEBACK TO THE BOND COUNTY, ILL., (THESE TWO WERE HENRY AND JAMES C RIGGIN) EITHER SORRENTO OR OLD RIPLEY, ILL WHERE THEY SETTLED." NOW WHY I THINK THIS COULD BE IMPORTANT. HENRY RIGGIN FATHER WAS JOHN RIGGIN AND HIS FATHER WAS HENRY RIGGIN. HENRY AND JOHN RIGGIN'S ARE THE TWO IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS MESS..............NOTE THAT OUR COUSIN J. S. ROBERT TALKS ABOUT A CHEROKEE INDIAN AND SHE WAS MARRIED TO JOHN RIGGIN ABT 1860 IN DALLAS CO., MO. JOHN RIGGIN FATHER WAS HENRY RIGGIN. NOW NOTE THAT ROBERT'S SAID THAT "WHO EVER SETTLED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MEXICO MO." THE PERSON THAT WAS SETTLED IN MEXICO, MO WAS POWELL RIGGINS OR WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS. NOW I AM SURE YOU ARE CONFUSED AS YOU CAN BE RIGHT NOW BUT IF YOU NEED ME TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THEN LET ME KNOW. I STILL HAVE MORE THAT I CAN THROW OUT ON THE TABLE. THIS IS JUST FOR STARTERS..............ENJOY! COURT At 08:38 AM 8/24/2010, you wrote: >We need a break from VA. Court, tell us about the Missouri bunch that >tramped over from NC. Court comes from William Powell Rgn that died in 1770 >NC. I know the net calls him William David.can anyone prove that? > > for Ragan-Roots archives go to > >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=ragan-roots >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >RAGAN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Back in the mid 90's, when I first tried internet genealogy, Court was one of the first folks I met. I was green with envy at the organized work team he and the two gals had. We didn't know a whole lot about NC, and couldn't connect. Court taught me a lot about running around those brick walls out there, and about picking up every odd bit you can find... one day I'll fit somewhere. I still save Farris and Brashear notes, even though they aren't mine. They are old friends. Court, question, what do you have for paper in either TN or KY, hints, good guesses...counties? M'ellen -------------------------------------------------- From: "Court Conkwright" <courtcurtis@usa.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:10 AM To: <ragan-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [RAGAN-ROOTS] William son of William P. Rgn > FOR THE RECORD THESE ARE MY NOTE ON 4 PEOPLE THAT I BELIEVE ARE > BROTHERS OR ELSE VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER. I WORKED WITH 2 OTHER > WOMEN FOR YEARS ON THIS MESS AND I AM STILL NOT SURE IF MY HENRY > RIGGIN AND HIS BROTHER FOR SURE JOHN RIGGIN OR RELATED TO JAMES > JOSEPH RIGGINS OR WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS( I HAVE SEEN IT ALSO AS JUST > POWELL RIGGINS) . I AM NOT EVEN SURE THAT JAMES AND WILLIAM POWELL > OR POWELL ARE RELATED YET TO MY JOHN AND HENRY. NOW SEE MY NOTES ON > WILLIAM RIGGIN THAT I BELIEVE IS THE FATHER OF MY HENRY AND JOHN. > > NOTES ON WILLIAM RIGGIN: > > ELLEN GASKILL DAY GRANDDAUGHTER OF MAHALA RIGGIN WAS TOLD THAT THREE > BROTHERS WILL, JOE AND JOHN LIVED IN N.C. MOVED TO TENN, KY AND THEN > MOVED NORTH. JOHN SETTLED IN MADISON CO.,ILL, WILL AND JOE SETTLED > SOMEWHERE NEAR ST. LOUIS. THEIR FATHER WAS WILLIAM RIGGIN, A > REVOLUTINARY WAR VETERAN. > > INDEX OF RIGGIN FAMILIES, BY MRS DANIEL STONE KELTE, PAGE 10, > MENTIONS A LETTER WRITTEN BY MISS FRANCIS RIGGIN TO MRS. KELTE. SHE > WROTE THAT HER GREAT GRANDFATHER, THOMAS MAGNUS RIGGIN OF ST. LOUIS, > MO., SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT THREE BROS. WILL, JOE AND JOHN > CAME FROM N.C. IN THE EARLY 1800'S. THE THREE BROTHERS WERE BORN IN > OR NEAR RALEIGH, N.C. > > NOTE THE 2 DIFFERENCE SOURCES. I BELIEVE THIS TO BE TWO KEY > STATEMENTS. WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS, JAMES JOSEPH RIGGINS AND JOHN > RIGGIN FROM MO AND ILL WERE ALL 3 BORN IN NC. WILL, JOE AND > JOHN............MAKE GOOD SENSE TO ME. > > WILLIAM RIGGIN - FROM MADISON CO., ILL HISTORY PP. 51 SEPT 6, 1819 > APPOINTED CONESTABLE SILVER CREEK TWP, PUT UP BOND AND SECURITY OF > $500.00. > > > NOTES ON HENRY RIGGIN: > > HENRY RIGGIN BURIED AT MARINE CITY CEMETERY IN MADISON CO., ILL. WE > KNOW FROM HIS HEAD STONE THAT HE WAS A NATIVE OF TENN. AND IT IS SAID > THAT HIS FATHER WAS WILLIAM RIGGIN WHO WAS A REV. WAR SOLDIER. THERE > ARE MANY INTERESTING STORIES OF HENRY THAT WAS FOUND IN THE S.I.U. > LAW LIBRARY IN EDWARDVILLE, ILL. ALSO SEE MY BOOK FOR MORE DETAILS. > IT APPEARS THAT HENRY WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL FARMER AND HAD MONEY FOR > THESE DAYS. HE DIED VERY YOUNG AT AGE 42. HE WAS INVOLVED IN A LAW > SUIT BETWEEN HIS BROTHER JOHN AND WIFE MARGARET. OF COURSE HENRY > TAKING THE SIDE OF JOHN. > > NOTES ON JOHN RIGGIN: > > JOHN RIGGIN WAS ALSO MARRIED TO EVA COPENBERGER MARCH 9 1840 IN > MADISON CO. ILL. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN - SUSAN B. 1839 AND JOHN B. > 1843. JOHN WAS DIVORCED FROM MARGARET EITHER IN 1839 OR 1840 AFTER A > BITTER COURT BATTLES. RECORDS OF THIS ARE FOUND AT THE S.I.U. LAW > LIBRARY AT EDWARDSVILLE ILL. THESE RECORDS ARE ALSO HELD BY DOROTHY > BANGERT, C. C. CONKWRIGHT AND VIRGINIA DEWAN. THESE THREE PEOPLE HAVE > ONE OF THE BEST COLLECTIONS OF RIGGIN'S PAPER KNOW AT THIS TIME IN > MADISON CO., ILL. > > IN LEGAL COURT PAPER FROM MADISON CO., ILL IT STATES IN THE DIVORCE > PAPERS THAT JOHN AND PEGGY WERE MARRIED IN TENN IN 1807 AND MOVED TO > MADISON IN THE YEAR 1816 OR 1817. JOHN LEFT HIS WIFE ABOUT THE 28 OF > APRIL 1838 AND WAS LIVING WITH EVA COPENBRERGER IN THE STATE OF MO. > > ACCORDING TO DIV PAPERS ON JOHN AND MARGARET FARRIS RIGGIN. THEY > MOVE FROM TENN IN TO ILL IN EITHER 1816 OR 1817. JOHN AND MARGARET > "PEGGY" WERE MARRIED IN 1807 IN TENN IN THE SAME PAPERS. > > JOHN RIGGIN A PETITIONED TO BE A VIEWER OF A ROAD PP. 256 SEPT 4, 1821 > > NOTES ON POWELL OR WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS: > > FROM THE WILL OF POWELL RIGGINS FROM THE MEXICO, AUDRAIN CO., MO. > COURTHOUSE: I, COURT CONKWRIGHT FOUND THIS ON 1 APR 1991 AND HAS A COPY OF > IT. > > I POWELL RIGGINS OF THE COUNTY OF AUDRAIN AND THE STATE OF MO, BEING > OLD BUT IN SOUND MIND AND DISPOSING MEMORY FOR WHICH I THANK GOD AND > CALLING TO MIND THE UNCERTAINLY OF HUMAN LIFE AND BEING DESIROUS TO > DISPOSE OF ALL SUCH WORLDLY ESTATE AS IT HAS PLEASE GOD TO BLESS ME > WITH, DO GIVE AND BEQUEATH THE SAME IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER TO WIT: > THAT IS TO SAY I DESIRE THAT ALL MY JUST DEBTS HE PAID. > > 2ND: I GIVE A BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED WIFE PATSY RIGGINS ALL OF MY > ESTATE, REAL AND PERSONAL AND TO MIXED AND TO ALL INTEREST THEREIN TO > HAVE AND TO HOLD ABSOLUTELY TO DO WITH AND DISPOSE OF AS SHE SHALL > THINK FIT DURING HER NATURAL LIKE AND IF IN CARE MY SAID WIFE, PATSY > RIGGINS, SHOULD DIE WITHOUT ISSUE THEN THE BALANCE OF THERE SHOULD BE > ANY LEFT AT HER DEATH, TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY > GRANDCHILDREN, THAT IS TO SAY, THE CHILDREN OF JAMES RIGGINS AND JOHN > MINER AS I HAVE GIVEN IN MY LIFETIME TO MY SON JOHN RIGGIN THAT I > EVER INTEND HIM TO HAVE IN MY LIFE OR AFTER MY DEATH; ALSO I HAVE > GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER NANCY BRASHEAR ALL I HAVE EVER INTENDED HER TO > HAVE IN MY LIFE OR AFTER MY DEATH. IN TESTIMONY WHERE OF, I POWELL > RIGGINS DO SET MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 22 DAY OF FEB 1853. WITNESS BY > JOHN A PEARSON AND NANCY PERSON. I SUBSCRIBED THE TESTATORS NAME AT > HIS REQUEST JOHN A PERSON. > > POWELL WAS ALSO KNOWN AS WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS, ONE OF THE 3 BROTHERS. > > HE ALSO HAD LAND IN THE FOLLOW AREAS OF MONROE CO., MO. > SECTION 10 TWP 52-53 RANGE 10 ALSO A PIECE AT SECTION 35. > > LAND RECORDS IN AUDRAIN CO., MO: > GRANTORS GRANTEES BOOK PAGE > > 18 OCT 1844 POWELL RIGGINS AND WIFE MARY JOHN > MINER 248/249 31 MAY 1851 POWELL RIGGINS AND WIFE POLLY > $400. JOHN BRASHEAR C 514 31 MAY 1851 POWELL RIGGINS AND WIFE > POLLY 300. JOHN RIGGINS C 517 24 APR 1852 POWELL RIGGINS AND > WIFE MARY 100. ELIZABETH FAIRR D 168-169 18 OCT 1844 POWELL > RIGGINS 150. JOHN MINER B 250 25 OCT 1853 > POWELL RIGGINS AND WIFE PATSY 1400. ENOCK DOLD D 413 31 MAY > 1851 POWELL RIGGINS 80 ACRES JOHN BRASHEAR C 516 17 > OCT 1854 PATSY RIGGINS $1800. GEORGE F BROWNING E 305.6 > > POWELL SIGNED WITH A "X" ON THE LAND RECORDS > > IT APPEARS THAT PATSY RIGGINS WAS WITH CHILD THE YEAR THAT POWELL > DIED. SHE REMARRIED TO A L. FISHER IN AUDRAIN CO. AND THE CHILD > WILLIAM RIGGINS IS SHOWN LIVING WITH HER AND NEW HUSBANDS > FAMILY. THIS IS IN THE 1860 AUDRAIN FEDERAL CENSUS. > > 9/22/2007 > > Maryellen take a look at this land plot record that I found in > Mexico, Audrain Co., MO in 1991. The more I look at it the more I > am now wondering if just maybe the William P. Riggins and Powell > Riggins are not the same person. I have always believe that it was > the one and the same William Powell Riggins. You will also > remember that a William P. Riggins witnessed the buying of land of my > Henry Riggin in Madison Co., ILL. Again I believe it was the one > and same from Audrain. A brother to Henry and John Riggin. In > the will of Powell Riggins that I have it is signed Powell and not > William. > > Now it could be the William Powell Riggins who was the son of James > Joseph Riggin of Cole Co., MO. This W.P.Riggins was born in 1813 > and the land records I see was bought in 1840, which mean he was > owing land next to his uncle Powell and is the right age to be buying > land. You will also see a John Brashear who is listed on one of the > records, who was the son in law to Powell Riggins. John Brashear > married Nancy Riggins Powell daughter. If this is correct then we > can see a connection for sure between the James Joseph Riggins son > William P. and my Henry Riggin in Madison Co., ILL. Do you follow > my line of thinking? > > Court > > p.s. If he was William Powell Riggins it appears that he only went by > Powell. > > > NOTES ON JAMES JOSEPH RIGGINS: > > FROM THE HISTORY OF BOONE CO., MO. BY WILLIAM F SWITZLER.: > > JOSEPH RIGGINS, WAS BORN IN N.C., BUT WHEN QUITE A YOUNG MAN > EMIGRATED TO KENTUCKY, WHERE HE MARRIED MISS BARZILLIA LAWLESS, THE > MOTHER OF THE DOCTOR(G W RIGGINS). THEY LIVED IN KENTUCKY FOR > SEVERAL YEARS AND IN 1816 CAME TO MO. AND LOCATED IN HOWARD COUNTY, > AND BUILT THE FIRST CABIN WHERE THE TOWN OF OLD FRANKLIN WA > AFTERWARDS BUILT. THE SITE OF THE PRESENT CITY OF BOONVILLE, > OPPOSITE THE TOWN OF OLD FRANKLIN, WA THEN A DENSE THICKET, AND THE > INDIANS ROAMED THE FOREST AND KILLED THE SETTLERS AT THEIR OWN SWEET > WILL. MR RIGGINS HAD NO NEIGHBORS NEARER THAN THE FORTS ABOVE AND > BELOW HIS BACIN, AT TOO GREAT A DISTANCE TO AFFORD HIS CONSTANT > PROTECTION. SEVERAL OF HIS NEIGHBORS WERE KILLED BY THE INDIANS, > AFTER THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAD BECOME MORE THICKLY SETTLED. HE LIVED AT > OLD FRANKLIN ABOUT FOUR YEARS AND THEN BOUGHT THE FARM UPON WHICH > DOCTOR G W RIGGINS WAS BORN. HE SHORTLY AFTERWARDS MOVED TO COLE > CO., MO, WHERE HE DIED IN 1849 IN HIS SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR. HIS WIDOW > SURVIVED HIM SEVERAL YEARS AND DIED AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY YEARS. > > IT IS BELIEVED THAT HIS GIVEN NAME WAS JAMES JOSEPH RIGGINS AND HE > LATER DROPPED THE JAMES. > > IN THE 1819-1826 MO TAX PAYERS FROM CALLOWAY CO., MO THE NAMES OF > JAMES AND POWELL CAN BE FOUND. > FROM THE CEMETERIES IN COLE COUNTY, MO AS RECORDED IN THE 1930'S PART > I: BURYING FOUND ON THE FARM OF EDWARD DUENKEL TWP 43 NORTH - RANGE > 12 - SECTION 29. ON THE STONE IT READ "ERECTED BY HIS WIFE, BURZILLA > RIGGINS." 70 YRS 7 MO 7 DA. > > FROM THE CEMETERIES IN COLE COUNTY, MO. AS RECORDED IN THE 1930'S - > NOTES PAGE 203: PAGE 60 --JAMES RIGGINS HAD AN ADMINISTRATION DTED 8 > JAN 1848 (418A-12), WITH WILLIAM P. AND THOMAS B. RIGGINS AS THE > ADMINISTRATORS. JAMES WIFE, BURZILLA, BORN 1795, D AFTER THE 1850 CENSUS. > > NOTES ON SARAH PATTERSON RIGGIN: > > THIS NOTE WAS WRITTEN BY J.S. ROBERT THE 1ST COUSIN OF MY MOTHER > NELDA L. RIGGIN CONKWRIGHT. IT WAS WRITTEN ON JULY 5, 1974 IN GRESHAM, > OR. > > "THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO ME, J. S. ROBERT, BY HENRY RIGGIN, IN > GREENVILLE, ILL IN 1944 JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH. HENRY RIGGIN WAS A > BROTHER OF OUR GRANDFATHER, CHARLES E. RIGGIN, WHO PASSED AWAY IN THE > 1920'S. THE RIGGIN'S WERE DESECENDED FROM THE CHEROKEE INDIANS ON > THEIR MOTHER'S SIDE AND THERE MOTHER CAME FROM THE CAROLINAS AS AN > INFANT OVER WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS - THE TRAIL OF TEARS. THE > CHEROKEES WERE DRIVEN OUT OF THE CAROLINAS BY THE WHITE SETTLERS AND > WERE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE SO MUCH AS A BLANKET. MANY DIED ENROUTE, > HENCE THE NAME - TRAIL OF TEARS. WHO EVER HAD THE CARE OF CHARLES. > E. RIGGINS MOTHER SETTLED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF OF MEXICO, MO. WHERE > GREAT GRANDMOTHER RIGGIN WAS MARRIED AND HAD AT LEAST TWO OF HER > CHILDREN WHO WERE BORN THERE BEFORE AND DURINGTHE CIVIL WAR. WHEN > QUANTRILLS RAIDERS AND OTHER OUTLAW BANDS BEGAN RAIDING IN THE > NEIGHBORHOOD GREAT GRANDMOTHER RIGGIN BUNDLED UP HER TWO OLDEST > CHILDREN(ALL SHE HAD AT THE TIME)AND RODE HORSEBACK TO THE BOND > COUNTY, ILL., (THESE TWO WERE HENRY AND JAMES C RIGGIN) EITHER > SORRENTO OR OLD RIPLEY, ILL WHERE THEY SETTLED." > > NOW WHY I THINK THIS COULD BE IMPORTANT. HENRY RIGGIN FATHER WAS > JOHN RIGGIN AND HIS FATHER WAS HENRY RIGGIN. HENRY AND JOHN > RIGGIN'S ARE THE TWO IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS MESS..............NOTE > THAT OUR COUSIN J. S. ROBERT TALKS ABOUT A CHEROKEE INDIAN AND SHE > WAS MARRIED TO JOHN RIGGIN ABT 1860 IN DALLAS CO., MO. JOHN RIGGIN > FATHER WAS HENRY RIGGIN. NOW NOTE THAT ROBERT'S SAID THAT "WHO EVER > SETTLED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MEXICO MO." THE PERSON THAT WAS > SETTLED IN MEXICO, MO WAS POWELL RIGGINS OR WILLIAM POWELL RIGGINS. > > NOW I AM SURE YOU ARE CONFUSED AS YOU CAN BE RIGHT NOW BUT IF YOU > NEED ME TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THEN LET ME KNOW. I STILL HAVE MORE > THAT I CAN THROW OUT ON THE TABLE. THIS IS JUST FOR > STARTERS..............ENJOY! > > COURT > > > > > At 08:38 AM 8/24/2010, you wrote: >>We need a break from VA. Court, tell us about the Missouri bunch that >>tramped over from NC. Court comes from William Powell Rgn that died in >>1770 >>NC. 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