"Reuben Riggs came to the county soon after Amos Harris and entered upon the practice of law. He was a rough-hewn frontiersman with but little education, but was possessed of an unusual amount of native common sense and had a high legal mind. In 1857 he was elected county judge of Appanoose County, for a term of four years, being the first county judge under the code of 1851. At the termination of his office as county judge, he removed to Union county, Iowa, whence he removed to Kansas. He there froze to death in a storm while crossing a large unsettled prairie." History of Appanoose County. Volume 1. Page 267. --- Jeryl Bennett --- JLBennett9422@earthlink.net --- Author of "The Amazing Red Heifer" --- Researching the Sowers, Crow, and Bennett genealogies