This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riggs/Dodson/Thompson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HSDBAIB/1276 Message Board Post: Searching for info about Samuel Riggs who applied for Rev.War Pension Hawkins Co, Tenn, Aug.1845. John Riggs, Justice of the Peace took Samuel's deposition. Was John Samuel's son? or brother? Is this the same John Riggs whose will dated Jan. 31, 1849? In will John names wife Mary W. Names also "my heirs" Samuel T. Riggs, James V. Riggs, Pleasant Marion Riggs, dau Louisa J. Riggs and William E. D. Johns,"a son that my wife had by her former husband". Grandau of Mary W. Riggs living with her in the 1870 Hawkins Co census-Mary C. Dodson. In 1860 census Hawkins Co., Mary C. living with parents Raleigh(Rolly) Dodson and Eliza J. Dodson. Margaret Findley [email protected]