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/1.23.51.52.594 Message Board Post: MY FATHER HAS TOLD ME HIS FATHER WILLIAM RIGGS OR CHARLES WILLIAM RIGGS WAS BORN IN KENOVA, WEST VIRGINIA. I JUST STARTED RESEARCHING. WOULD LIKE TO START SOMEWHERE

Hello, I am trying find my ggg grandmother Anna Riggs' parents. She was married in 1850 in Tyler County, West Virginia. She married Harvey George Sampson. They were listed in the 1850 Greene County, Pennsylvania Census and later moved to Roane County, West Virginia and then to Calhoun County, West Virginia. Anna would have been born around 1828. Some reseachers have told me they believe her to be the youngest child of James and Rosanna Whitlatch Riggs. I believe if anything they are related for James's daughter Harriet married my ggg grandfather, William Kerby. William and Harriet moved to Calhoun and Roane Counties about the same time as Harvey and Anna. Other reseachers deny a connection or simply believe she is a niece of James. I've come across many Riggs in Tyler County, to name a few Edmund who married Elizabeth Robey, Basil who married Mary Robey and Jeremiah who married Rachel Keller. I've listed these because I believe there could be a connection to my Anna. Can anyone help me? Does anyone have children for these couples? Any help is appreciated. Dawn Gordon

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/1273.1.1 Message Board Post: Mitch, Margaret Dawson and Robert Tiggs married on October 26,1755 ih Allegany Co .Md.Margaret died on Jan. 18, 1915 in Mannheim, W. Va. she was born around 1840 in Md. Robert born December 1831 in Conn. and died December 25, 1920 in Rawlesburg, Preston Co. W. Va. Their children were William b. 1857; Thomas R. b. 1859; Charles A. b. 1864 and Justin E. b. December 21, 1865 and died April 21, 1944 married Burta Mae Loughry on Mar. 03, 1903 she died Abt. 1904 no known children. Margaret was probably born in Cumberland, Md. since there were many Dawson's living there but since this is only a distant relative I have never traced them very far. My g. aunt was Lottie (Charlotte) Whetstone who married Charles Riggs on May o6, 1970 they had one child Nelson b. March 29, 1871 and Lottie died on Sept. 17, 1872 and then the family including Abner and his wife Olive Terrill Riggs moved to McLennon Texas. Hope this helps, Virginia

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/1363 Message Board Post: I am looking for the parents and earlier ancesters of Jedediah Riggs (c.1775-1868) who was born in Connecticut and was one of the organizers of Ada township in Michigan. He was married to Philinda Crary and Eunice Barnum. I would also be interested in knowing if and how Eunice Barnam is related to P.T. Barnum. Family lore connects descendents of Jedediah Riggs to business dealings with P.T. Barnum.

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/1273.1 Message Board Post: Hi. I am Mitch Riggs Jr son of Mitchell L. Riggs son of Talbort B. Riggs son of Thomas R. Riggs son of Robert R. Riggs son of Abner B. Riggs . I would be gratefull for any thing you may have on my for fathers and or mothers thanks so much mitch

THE STATE OF TENNESSEE TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME -- GREETINGS Know ye, That in consideration of an Entry made in the Office of the Surveyor of the Fifth District of Number 3254 on the sixteenth day of October, Eighteen Hundred and Nine did on a Warrant of Number 2768 issued by Landow CARTER to Moses WILLIAMS for three hundred acres of land dated the twenty second day of March Seventeen Hundred and eighty three and assigned by said WILLIAMS to Edward RIGGS and by said RIGGS to John BLAIN and J. HARMON on land by said BLAIN and HARMON to Qquella JOHNSON and by said JOHNSON to William LINE onehundred acres of which are assigned by said LINE to Samuel RIGGS the enterer. Here is granted by the said State of Tennessee Unto the said Samuel RIGGS and his heirs a certain tract or parcel of land Containing One Hundred Acres lying in the County of Jefferson in the District of Hamilton jouinig his other land being an occupant claim beginning at a Mulberry: Thence North with the said RIGGS One Hundred and Ninty Poles to a Black Oak; West Ninety-four poles to a White Oak; South One Hundred Poles to the beginning. August Surveyed: 31st 1809 with its appurtances, to have and to hold the said Tract or Parcel of Land with its appurtenances to the said Samuel RIGGS and his Heirs forever. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Willie BLOUNT Governor of the State of Tennessee, has hereunto set his hand, and caused the Great Seal of the State to be fixed at Knoxville, on the 29th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten and of American Independence, the Thirty-Fourth. WE THE GOVERNOR __Willie BLOUNT, Secretary (In the left hand margin the following appears: "See files North Holston No. 144")

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/1362 Message Board Post: Victoria Isabelle Riggs married Louis (Lewis) Albert Sheets 20 Jul 1880, in Pueblo County, Colorado..

Following is a deed from Jesse to Wm, H. Riggs, acknowledging the death of Samuel before March 17, 1846. Its a little closer. (By Jim HANSARD) Jesse Riggs To William Henderson RIGGS Registered > 17th March 1846 (Hawkins Co, TN) > > > > Whereas my father Samuel Riggs now deceased in his lifetime by deed bearing > date 19th day of August 1840 and by deed bearing date 8th day of March 1844 > was jointly executed by said Samuel Riggs and his wife Mary Riggs which said > deeds are on record in the Registers Office of Hawkins County Tennessee – > conveyed to William Henderson Riggs the grandson of said Samuel Riggs Subject to > be held and disposed of by said William Henderson Riggs according to my > appointment the following Several tracts of land. Towit one tract lying and > being in the County of Hawkins and the County of Jefferson in Said State of > Tennessee on the South Side of Holston River containing by estimation five hundred > and seventy five acres more or less adjoining and bounded by the lands of > the Heirs of George T. Gillaspie deceased, the land of William and Tolliver > Robertson and the Cheeks X roads tract of land and the land of George Squibb and > Others being the same tract of land upon which the said Samuel Riggs lived > at the date of the deeds aforesaid, also one other tract of land lying in said > County of Hawkins containing by estimation two hundred acres more or less > known as the Enos place adjoining David Pollard and Others. – also one other > tract of land lying in Grainger County containing Sixty three acres more or > less upon the top of Clinch mountain where the turnpike road crosses said > mountain. Also one other tract of land lying in said County of Hawkins containing > one hundred and fifty acres more or less known as the James Boatman place > adjoining the lands of William Harris and Others, - Also one other tract of land > including several Grants containing by estimation thirteen hundred acres > more or less lying and being in Jefferson County adjoining the lands of John > Morris, Henry Riggs and Others. > > And whereas also the said Samuel Riggs and the said Mary Riggs his wife by > the two deeds first aforesaid also conveyed to the said William Henderson > Riggs subject to by held and disposed of by my appointment the following Slaves > to wit; Elias, Jeremiah, Mathew, Willis, Rewben, Major, Clisbe, Tabitha, > Coela Jane, Francis, George, Margaret, Susan, Mary, Preston, Fanny, and the two > children of said Fanny, also all of the personal property acquired by said > Samuel Riggs including house hold and kitchen furniture, stock, notes, bonds, > accounts and personal property of every discription. > > Now I Jesse Riggs of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee for and > his consideration of the promises herein described as well as the love and > affection I have for my son William Henderson Riggs I do hereby sell, give > grant, transfer and convey to the said William Henderson Riggs all the right title > interest claim and demand which I have or may have of in and to the several > Slaves herein before married and mentioned in said conveyance from Samuel > Riggs > > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Via, Breedlove, Riggs, Wood, Woods, Burnside Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HSDBAIB/1361 Message Board Post: Please see Boone County, Missouri, BOCOMO.org cemetary listings for members of this family. I am descended from Mary (Polly) Warren Riggs and Andrew Jackson Woods. This cemetary is east of where I grew up, 18 miles north of Columbia, Missouri, and East of Hwy. NN off of McComas Road.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RIGGS, MELTON, SANDERS, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HSDBAIB/1360 Message Board Post: Would like information of the RIGGS family of Spring Garden, Pendelton Township, Opdyke and Belle Rive and areas of Southern Illinois. My great grandmother was Osa Ola Riggs married to Benjamin Franklin Melton. I have a lot of Melton information but very little on RIGGS. Any and all information would be greatly appreciated. Cajungal3342@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RIGGS/FORD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HSDBAIB/969.1027.1067 Message Board Post: My great-great grandmother is Matilda Riggs. She married James Ford in Frederick, Maryland in 1854. The online marriage info I found lists her as Mary Matilda Riggs. Old notes of my Dad's list her as Matilda (Poole) Riggs. James died in 1866 but I have no info about her remarrying. She had a son, George, born in Maryland in 1855 and another son, William, birth date and place unknown to me. When I saw you website info on the message board it caught my eye. Would you send me an invitation to your Riggs family website. Thank you, Julie seashellgram@aol.com

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/1359 Message Board Post: Looking for information on the family of Bernadine Riggs? Humphrey, b. - around 1905 in Colorado. Please email me at larwife@msn.com with subject line of Riggs. Thanks for any help. Bernadine married John Woodson Humphrey in Colorado (he was born 31 Jul 1901 in Adams county, Ill ?. He died 20 Dec 1966 in Yucca Valley, Ca.) They had 3 children, Vivian, Ellis, and Della Lorriane, (b . 1927). They are all shown in the 1930 federal Census living in Las Animas. Her sister-in-law was Maude Hernard(?). She died at around ages 25-27 and she is buried in Las Animas Cemetery, Bent County, Colorado (listed as HUMPHREYS, BERNADINE), died 8/7/31.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riggs, Heffernan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HSDBAIB/1358 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on Hiram Riggs who married Mary Heffernan around 1836. I understand he moved to Corpus Christie from Brazos(?), but who were his parents, and where did he come from?

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/1357.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't know when they were married but my grandmother Tishia was born in Wilkes county in North Carolina on 9-13-1901. she was married to R.E.Crenshaw.The only thing I know about him is that he died in Huntersville,NC in the early 1950s.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riggs, Nichols Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HSDBAIB/1357.1 Message Board Post: When? & Where? were Tom Riggs & Hattie Nichols married? Without some dates and locations, you will get less results in your research.

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/1357 Message Board Post: I am looking for some information on my great-grandmother and father. There names were Tom Riggs and Hattie Nichols Riggs.They had a daughter by the name of Tishia.All I know about them is that Hattie and the founder of Holly Farms were first cousins. Thank you for any help .

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riggs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HSDBAIB/1352.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have given you the websites where I found the info on John Summers Riggs. I checked back in those websites and am giving you the submitter info I found. www.familysearch.org.....submitter: Patricia A. Walters 359 North 300 West Orem, Utah 84057-4633 Norvan L. Johnson 6600 West 178th st Tinley Park,IL 60477-4051 norvan@covad.net www.gencircles.com.......Jerry Blaine staff@abconsulting.net Also: Broderbund WFT Vol. 9 Ed. 1 Tree #2985 That's all I can tell you. Hope it helps.

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/1352.1.1 Message Board Post: Ruth, Thank you for your reply. I am greatly interested in connecting the JSRiggs in Ohio & Maryland. I have one question for you . I have seen several family trees for both families, but neither connects the JSRiggs together. The Ohio families don't seem to know where JSRiggs came from. The Maryland families never refer to his second wife Mary Huey or his other children. They also never refer to the circumstances of his death , like where it occured. Please let me know your source for the info and how you connected it together. Thanks. Pam

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/397.531.1 Message Board Post: i would like to compare and see if we have the same william and belle riggs, their parents were andrew jackson riggs and mary vance. e-mail me direct at nbusch@inreach.com thank you nancy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RIGGS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HSDBAIB/397.531 Message Board Post: I have a William Riggs who had a sister named Belle, along with other sibilings in Johnson County, Illinois