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/1470 Message Board Post: Looking for info on Ellen Riggs who was born in 1828 in Washington County, Kentucky. She shows up in the 1850 census for Des Moines Iowa. Here parents were Stephen Riggs was a native of Maryland, born around 1773, who moved to Kentucky.He met Elizabeth Riggs, born May 15, 1794 in Washington County, Kentucky, a distant cousin and daughter of William Riggs and Ann Nancy Staton. . In 1836 they immigrated to Des Moines County, Iowa, settling in Franklin Township. There they farmed and remained until 1848 when he moved to Sullivan Count, Missouri where he died in 1867. Elizabeth, his wife, died a year later February 18, 1867. They reared a family of fourteen children. Ellen was their 8th child. Some records show her married to a Caveno or Caverno. She had two daughters, Hattie and Cora?