If anyone would like a copy of this document, please ask me and I will send it to you as a file attachment. Any other way seems to take too long. David H. Riggs

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HSDBAIB/1435 Message Board Post: Nov. 9, 1923-May 3, 2003 Martha Jo Riggs, 79, of La Mesa died Saturday. She was born in Arkansas and was a homemaker. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include her daughters, Nancy Moore of San Diego and Cindy Day of Los Altos; two sisters; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Services: 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Greenwood Mortuary, Interstate 805 and Imperial Avenue, San Diego. Donations: Skin Cancer Foundation, 245 Fifth Ave., Suite 1403, New York, NY 10016, 1-800-SKIN-490, or www.skincancer.org. Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on 5/6/2003. (volunteer submission)

My great grandmother was Sarah Jacinto Calvert Penn - b. 10-07-1838 married Samuel M. Riggs. Died in Texas and is burried in Penn Cemetary. Crosby, Texas, USA. If anyone out there knows anything about her family I would surely like to hear from you. I have been trying for years and have not been able to find her parents or any brothers or sisters. I know all decendants, or most anyway. Need help on the past or anyone decended of her two daughters. Sarah Harriette Riggs called Hattie and Jacinto Cornelia Riggs called Cornelia. ??? Smile! GOD loves you....and So do I..Love ya,from: Betty --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs

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In a message dated 5/3/2004 6:46:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, D H Riggs London writes: > Sorry no Rachel Riggs, but if she married in Maryland before, she would be > shown as an Edwards. > These are the heads of the five Riggs families: > William Riggs and Anne Stayton > John Riggs and Susanna Knott > Sarey or Sarah Riggs no mention of her partner > Benjamin Riggs and Dolly Unknown > Hezekiah Riggs and Lydia Ingle > Before what? her husband was an Edwards, she was a Riggs. do you have any dates for these families? Thanks for writing, Sandy in Florida I will gladly exchange family history if you will do the same. Please do not send jokes, virus warnings, chain letters or attachments.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HSDBAIB/1433.1 Message Board Post: Dear Sir: I would be interested in seeing the document about the five Riggs families that migrated to Arkansas. It would be nice if it were posted on the message board for others to see. Thanks in advance. Jim H.

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Hi Richard and David I wondered the same thing! As someone living in the UK, I use the USGS National Mapping Information website to learn more about locations in the USA. By visiting http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form and entering "Isle of Wight" as the search term, I found that Isle of Wight is indeed in Virginia (and that there's also an area in Worcester Co MD by that name) Isle of Wight in Virginia is a populated place and also the name of the county in which it is situated. Clicking on the name in the Results page that you visit by searching will give you more info and, if you then click on the link to "Show Feature Location using maps produced from the U.S. Census Bureau's Tiger Map Server", you can see where it is on the page http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/MapServer?f_name=Isle+of+Wight&f_state=VA&f_latlong=365427N0764229W&f_type=ppl&server=TIGER David: when you refer to "A Richard Riggs by Arthur Smith", do you know whether this means that Arthur Smith paid for Richard's passage, or was the person to whom Richard was indentured, or what? @¿@ Geoff Riggs - Chepstow, South Wales, UK ~ RIGGS Surname Study www.riggs.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (@¿@) Searching for {~} the Missing Link ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Riggs" <rriggs3@optonline.net> To: <RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [RIGGS-L] Richard Riggs 1637, Isaac Riggs & Abraham Riggs 1687 > Is this the Isle of Wight in the English Channel? My gggrandfather came from > there about 1853. Is there an Isle of Wight in Virginia? Richard Riggs > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <DHRiggsLondon@aol.com> > To: <RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 1:12 PM > Subject: [RIGGS-L] Richard Riggs 1637, Isaac Riggs & Abraham Riggs 1687 > > > | In a book called, Early Virginia Immigrants 1623 - 1666, by: George Cabell > | Greer, A Richard Riggs by Arthur Smith landed in Isle of Wight in 1637. > | > | Fifty years later in 1687 Abraham Riggs age 13 and brother Isaac Riggs age > 15 > | landed in Accomack County, Virginia under the Head Rights Law. > | > | If anyone has information as to where Richard Riggs came from, it might be > a > | clue as to where to search in the U.K. for my Riggs boys. > | > | Regards, > | David Harrison Riggs > | DHRiggsLondon@aol.com > | > | > | ==== RIGGS Mailing List ==== > | Check out the RIGGS Resource Page located at the following URL: > | http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/r/i/RIGGS/ > | > | >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HSDBAIB/1434 Message Board Post: I am looking for a *live* person to communicate with by the name of Mae Anderson Riggs last known to be in Joliet, Illinois. She has/had a sister named Esther Anderson Stevens/Kinsley, and 3 brothers, Norman Anderson (deceased) of Debry, Kansas, Mulvane Anderson, and Robert Anderson of Arlington, Kansas. Her parents names are Merton and Anna Marie (Kearns) Anderson and are buried in the Partridge Cemetery in Partridge, Kansas. Her mother, Anna Marie Kearns Anderson's mother was Alida Ellan McHone/Kearns/Rummell/Puckett (b:April 27, 1867 d: Sept. 16, 1942) and Alida is my grandmother Minnie (McHone) Sutton's sister. I am hoping to find more information on Alida and all of her families to add to my McHone family research. Anyone out there have any info on Mae Riggs that they would care to share? Thanks, Carol Sutton/Nagy Kunz

Is this the Isle of Wight in the English Channel? My gggrandfather came from there about 1853. Is there an Isle of Wight in Virginia? Richard Riggs ----- Original Message ----- From: <DHRiggsLondon@aol.com> To: <RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 1:12 PM Subject: [RIGGS-L] Richard Riggs 1637, Isaac Riggs & Abraham Riggs 1687 | In a book called, Early Virginia Immigrants 1623 - 1666, by: George Cabell | Greer, A Richard Riggs by Arthur Smith landed in Isle of Wight in 1637. | | Fifty years later in 1687 Abraham Riggs age 13 and brother Isaac Riggs age 15 | landed in Accomack County, Virginia under the Head Rights Law. | | If anyone has information as to where Richard Riggs came from, it might be a | clue as to where to search in the U.K. for my Riggs boys. | | Regards, | David Harrison Riggs | DHRiggsLondon@aol.com | | | ==== RIGGS Mailing List ==== | Check out the RIGGS Resource Page located at the following URL: | http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/r/i/RIGGS/ | |

In a book called, Early Virginia Immigrants 1623 - 1666, by: George Cabell Greer, A Richard Riggs by Arthur Smith landed in Isle of Wight in 1637. Fifty years later in 1687 Abraham Riggs age 13 and brother Isaac Riggs age 15 landed in Accomack County, Virginia under the Head Rights Law. If anyone has information as to where Richard Riggs came from, it might be a clue as to where to search in the U.K. for my Riggs boys. Regards, David Harrison Riggs DHRiggsLondon@aol.com

My third g grandmother, Esther Riggs, was born March 17, 1816 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut. Father Samuel Riggs. Esther married Myron Wesley Barnes May 27, 1832 in Middlebury, New Haven, Connecticut. That's all I know about my Riggs line. Have lots on the Barnes family. Can anyone fill me in on Samuel Riggs and the rest of the family?

I have a Job Riggs (Job may have been a nickname), who married Rachel Plummer, daugher of Thomas Plummer and Jean Ruggles, in early 1830's. I believe Job was born in Bourbon Co., KY, but that his parents moved there from VA. They had two children: John Riggs and Elizabeth Jane Riggs. I understand that Job was a mechanic in Maysville, KY in the early-to-mid 1830's. The family moved to Ohio about 1840. If you have any record of this Riggs family, please let me know. I have been searching for Job's parentage for some time. Thank's for any help you can give me.

Correcting an error, not that it's likely to matter: Surry Co., NC, NOT VA. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne" <annerhai@ttmol.com> To: <RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [RIGGS-L] Mahala Amangahala Rigsby Riggs > Hello to all. I have been searching for the ancestry of Mahala RIGGS, b. > about 1806, married Elkanah Lewis (the 3rd, I think) in Surry Co. VA. Mahala > was a daughter of Lott RIGGS. Her mother was a ROSS. The evidence is that > she was a daughter or granddaughter of John ROSS, Cherokee Indian chief. > > Recently I found Mahala's full name given as MAHALA AMANGAHALA RIGSBY RIGGS. > I have noted that Amangahala has a bit of an N/A sound. I don't know how the > Rigsby fits in here, although it sounds very much like a surname related to > RIGGS. > > John Ross actually had very little Cherokee blood, or that is my impression. > About one-eighth, I think. Maybe somebody knows more about this. > > An mtDNA test of Mahala Riggs's line shows that her ancestral mother was in > Europe 10,000 years ago. Just one line, of course. > > I think I have a list of Mahala's siblings now. Maybe. If anybody is > interested in this line, please let me know. > > Anne > > ==== RIGGS Mailing List ==== > Check out the RIGGS Resource Page located at the following URL: > http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/r/i/RIGGS/ > > > > ==== RIGGS Mailing List ==== > **************************RIGGS WEB PAGE************************* > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~genea/riggs.html > > >

I am looking for my Rachel Riggs, she was born in 1795 and married David Edwards. they moved from MD to PA to Ohio, then later family moved to WV. do you know her? Thanks for writing, Sandy in Florida I will gladly exchange family history if you will do the same. Please do not send jokes, virus warnings, chain letters or attachments.

Hello to all. I have been searching for the ancestry of Mahala RIGGS, b. about 1806, married Elkanah Lewis (the 3rd, I think) in Surry Co. VA. Mahala was a daughter of Lott RIGGS. Her mother was a ROSS. The evidence is that she was a daughter or granddaughter of John ROSS, Cherokee Indian chief. Recently I found Mahala's full name given as MAHALA AMANGAHALA RIGSBY RIGGS. I have noted that Amangahala has a bit of an N/A sound. I don't know how the Rigsby fits in here, although it sounds very much like a surname related to RIGGS. John Ross actually had very little Cherokee blood, or that is my impression. About one-eighth, I think. Maybe somebody knows more about this. An mtDNA test of Mahala Riggs's line shows that her ancestral mother was in Europe 10,000 years ago. Just one line, of course. I think I have a list of Mahala's siblings now. Maybe. If anybody is interested in this line, please let me know. Anne ==== RIGGS Mailing List ==== Check out the RIGGS Resource Page located at the following URL: http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/r/i/RIGGS/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HSDBAIB/1433 Message Board Post: If you like me have RIGGS that moved out of Virginia or Maryland and settled in Washington or Nelson Counties Kentucky for a time back in the late 1700's and early 1800's, a document has just come to light that states there were five separate Riggs families that came to this area. I have found it very useful as it has corrected a few errors I had made. If you would like a copy, I will be pleased to e-mail it to you. Let me know a few of your Riggs ancestors, as we may have the same family in common. Regards David Harrison Riggs DHRiggs@aol.com

Dave Thanks for the come back. Brothers and sisters names of Claura Ann Riggs were Marie Riggs born about 1902, Sophronia ( Fronie ) Riggs born about 1902 married to a Williams, Elbert Riggs born about 1907, died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Married a Mildred ?. , Thelmar L, Riggs born July 13, 1913, died November 13, 1997, buried Manila Cemetery, Manila, Arkansas. He married Noma L. ? born December 18, 1914, died May 26, 1966. Buried Manila Cemetery, Manila, Arkansas. Ruby Riggs born about 1914. Jim Montgomery DHRiggsLondon@aol.com wrote: >Jim, > >Sorry none of your Rigs tie up with mine. Most of mine are in the Pocahontas, >Randolph County area and Lawrence County area of Arkansas. > >David H. Riggs > > > >

Jim, Sorry none of your Rigs tie up with mine. Most of mine are in the Pocahontas, Randolph County area and Lawrence County area of Arkansas. David H. Riggs