This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C2326A.54E4D400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bobby, I realize that this may be a late response, BUT to your question on the below information you submitted to the list I have attached what could be the parentage of Joel Riggs father of the James M. Riggs you found. Teresa Riggs Taramasso -----Original Message----- From: BGCarwile@aol.com <BGCarwile@aol.com> To: RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com <RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 1:54 AM Subject: [RIGGS-L] Re: James M. RIGGS [1808-?] Corsicana, TX >The following information is from info sent to me recently. It is from an >1881 printing of "The Encyclopedia of THE NEW WEST", pages 411-412!!! > >I hope it is of use to some RIGGS researchers. > > >James M. RIGGS >Corsicana, Texas > > In the winter of 1845-46, at the first session of the Texas Legislature, Mr. >RIGGS was appointed one of the five commissioners to locate the county seat of >Navarro County, and to survey off and sell the lots, the land having been >donated by David R. MITCHELL, of Tennessee, then living in Texas. For the >first ten years after the organization of the county, he was district clerk. >He served four years as Justice of the Peace, and was thrice a delegate to >Democratic State Conventions. He became a Mason the night on which the >Corsicana Lodge, No. 48, was organized, and has taken part in every change >that has brought Corsicana to its present prosperous and beautiful >proportions. > Mr. RIGGS was born on Mill Creek, eight miles from Franklin, Williamson >County, Tennessee, December 15, 1808, worked on his father's farm until, at >the age of seventeen, he began a mercantile career, clerking in stores in >various places in Tennessee and Alabama. From 1835 to 1844 he conducted a >mercantile business of his own at Chapel Hill, Williamson County, Tennesssee. >>From there he moved to Green County, Missouri, bought a farm and cultivated it >three years, sold out and moved to what is now Ellis County, Texas, remaining >there on a farm until he went to Corsicana. > Mr. RIGGS was educated in the country schools of his day, but has supplied >any educational defect by careful and diligent reading, and by practice he >became a good business man---was always worthy of trust, always in his place, >never indulged in any excesses, and was never, under any provocation, profane. >He has two brothers: Zed, a bachelor and farmer, sixty-six years of age, in >Marshall County, Tennessee, and Joel, a physician and land-holder in Hill >County, Texas, and one living sister, Elizabeth, widow of Mr. ELLIS, a lawyer >of Kosciusko, Mississippi, who now lives near Bremond, Texas. This RIGGS >family came originally from England. Joel RIGGS, the father of James, was >born in Surry County, North Carolina. At the age of thirty he married Miss >Elizabeth DAVIS, near the Hermitage, in 1806, moved to Nashville, thence to >Williamson County and from there to Bedford, where he died in 1835, aged >sixty. He was a sportsman of the old school, fond of a foot race, and was a >slaveholder and planter. His father died near Shelbyville, Tennessee. > Elizabeth DAVIS was the daughter of Harvey DAVIS, a planter, near the >Hermitage. He raised four sons: Thomas, Samuel, James and Joel, (who all >became rich planters) and two daughters, Sarah, who married John EVERETT and >Elizabeth, who became the wife of Joel RIGGS; lived to the age of eighty-nine, >and died in Marshall County, Tennessee, which place had been her home for >sixty years. > James RIGGS was married in Williamson County, Tennessee, December 3, 1835, to >Miss Margaret, the daughter of George HANCOCK. She was born July 15, 1815, >in Maury County, and educated in Maury and Williamson Counties. Of her four >brothers, Richard was a doctor, Thomas a planter, who once represented >Williamson County in the Legislature, and William, a merchant at Chapel Hill, >where he died. Stephen was a planter. These were all rich men. Her >sister, Lucinda, married Joseph T. MORTON, and lives near Springfield, >Missouri. Jane, the widow of Alexander YOUNGER, is living fourteen miles >west of Corsicana. > Mr. and Mrs. RIGGS have three children living: Adelaide, born June 13, 1837, >at Chapel Hill, Tennessee, educated in Texas, and in 1853, married to Dr. W. >S. ROBINSON, of Dresden, Texas; Lou, born March 10, 1845, near Springfield, >Missouri, educated in Corsicana, and in February, 1866, married W. F. KENNER, >one of the best farmers of Navarro County; Ruth, born in Corsicana, March 10, >1850, was educated in Corsicana, and married, in 1868, to T. A. PEASE, now a >merchant at Luling, Caldwell County, Texas. Five of Mr. RIGGS children have >died. Thomas O.; Joseph T.; Laura; and a little one not named died quite >young. Stephen M., after two years' service in Hood's Brigade, was wounded >in the knee at the Battle of Chickamauga, and died after the amputation of the >limb. Mr. RIGGS has seven grandchildren. He has enjoyed remarkable >exemption from sickness. In forty years, a part of that time owning slaves, >he has not expended a hundred and fifty dollars in doctor's bills. He has >the appearance of being much younger than seventy-two, does not seem to have >yielded to the wear and tear of life, is not negligent of dress, and bids fair >to continue many years yet to bless his friends with the geniel smile that >seems always to play upon his countenance. > Mr. and Mrs. RIGGS have been for twenty-five years members of the Cumberland >Presbyterian Church. She is still living, at the age of sixty-six. Born >during the administration of Thomas JEFFERSON, he has always been a Democrat, >voted for secession, and was, during the war, "receiver in kind" for the >Confederate Government. He has several times engaged in merchandising, part >of the time has done a miscelaneous trading business, and is now Land Agent. >He has not always been free from the bane of security debts, but >notwithstanding all, has an abundance of this world's goods to make old age >comfortable when it does come, and when the silver cord shall be broken and >treasures of that better country wait for him to enter in and take possession. > >Again, I hope this info is of some help to a RIGGS family researcher. Does >anyone know who was the FATHER of Joel RIGGS; the father of James M. RIGGS? >Bobby G. Carwile > > > >==== RIGGS Mailing List ==== >**************************RIGGS WEB PAGE************************* > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4192/Rigindx.html ------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C2326A.54E4D400 Content-Type: text/plain; name="Joel Riggs.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Joel Riggs.TXT" Descendants of David RIGGS - 23 Jul 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------ FIRST GENERATION 1. David RIGGS was born on November 8, 1749 in Morris Co., New Jersey. He died in 1837 in Shelbyville, TN. !David Riggs, son of Timothy, = came with his father to N. C. and settled in Stokes Co. Married Miriam = Wright and had 9 children. Moved to Williamson Co., TN and took his family = with=20 him. Doris Eickman shows a second marriage for David. #2. Sophia Dempsey. David RIGGS and Miriam WRIGHT had the following children: +2 i. Rebecca RIGGS (born about 1772). +3 ii. Zaddock RIGGS (born about 1774). +4 iii. Joel RIGGS (born about 1776). +5 iv. Elizabeth RIGGS (born about 1778). +6 v. Sarah RIGGS (born about 1781). 7 vi. David RIGGS was born about 1784. =20 He died about 1844. David Riggs died a=20 bachelor according to the Riggs Genealogy by John Wallace. 8 vii. Edward RIGGS was born about 1786. =20 He died about 1824. +9 viii. Miriam RIGGS (born about 1788). +10 ix. Gideon RIGGS (born on March 8, 1790). He was married to Sophia DEMPSY about 1815. David RIGGS and Sophia = DEMPSY=20 had the following children: +11 i. Adam Springs RIGGS Rev. (born on June 6, 1816). ------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C2326A.54E4D400--

Hi Teresa, I understand there is a limit on the length of messages that RootsWeb will accept as postings to Mailing Lists, and it looks as though your message below exceeded it, I'm afraid. You'll have noticed that the message has been cut immediately after "+11 i. Adam Springs RIGGS Rev. (born on June 6, 1816). ------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C2326A.54E4D400--" Is it possible please for you to resubmit it but without including Bobby Carwile's original posting, which came across intact. That way you should be able to post the 'Descendants of David RIGGS' in their entirety Regards Geoff Riggs Chepstow, South Wales riggs@one-name.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taramasso" <califia@cybernet1.com> To: <RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [RIGGS-L] Re: James M. RIGGS [1808-?] Corsicana, TX This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C2326A.54E4D400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bobby, I realize that this may be a late response, BUT to your question on the below information you submitted to the list I have attached what could be the parentage of Joel Riggs father of the James M. Riggs you found. Teresa Riggs Taramasso -----Original Message----- From: BGCarwile@aol.com <BGCarwile@aol.com> To: RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com <RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 1:54 AM Subject: [RIGGS-L] Re: James M. RIGGS [1808-?] Corsicana, TX <edited out> ------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C2326A.54E4D400 Content-Type: text/plain; name="Joel Riggs.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Joel Riggs.TXT" Descendants of David RIGGS - 23 Jul 2002 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------= ------ FIRST GENERATION 1. David RIGGS was born on November 8, 1749 in Morris Co., New Jersey. He died in 1837 in Shelbyville, TN. !David Riggs, son of Timothy, = came with his father to N. C. and settled in Stokes Co. Married Miriam = Wright and had 9 children. Moved to Williamson Co., TN and took his family = with=20 him. Doris Eickman shows a second marriage for David. #2. Sophia Dempsey. David RIGGS and Miriam WRIGHT had the following children: +2 i. Rebecca RIGGS (born about 1772). +3 ii. Zaddock RIGGS (born about 1774). +4 iii. Joel RIGGS (born about 1776). +5 iv. Elizabeth RIGGS (born about 1778). +6 v. Sarah RIGGS (born about 1781). 7 vi. David RIGGS was born about 1784. =20 He died about 1844. David Riggs died a=20 bachelor according to the Riggs Genealogy by John Wallace. 8 vii. Edward RIGGS was born about 1786. =20 He died about 1824. +9 viii. Miriam RIGGS (born about 1788). +10 ix. Gideon RIGGS (born on March 8, 1790). He was married to Sophia DEMPSY about 1815. David RIGGS and Sophia = DEMPSY=20 had the following children: +11 i. Adam Springs RIGGS Rev. (born on June 6, 1816). ------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C2326A.54E4D400-- ______________________________