This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riggs, Richmond, Shepherd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ABC.2ACE/3778.1.1 Message Board Post: My dad grew up with a woman in Dorchester, Wise Co VA that married into a Riggs Family, my husband grew up in Big Stone Gap, Wise Co VA with that family. They descend from William Riggs and Sarah Richmond's son Hiram and his wife Lavina Shepherd. Traditional information has William Riggs b. 1765 in Union Co NJ but Riggs researchers in that area have been unable to place him there. Knowing the history of SW VA the information you posted makes far more sense. Willing to share what I have on descendents.