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             Husband: Nathan Clark RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: 09 MAR 1848 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (7)
             Married:
                Died: 29 DEC 1891 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (8)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (9 10)
              Father: Ebenezer RIGGS
              Mother: Frances A. CLARK
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Caroline Lucy SMITH (11 12 13 14 15)
                Born: 27 MAR 1850 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (16)
                Died: 05 JUN 1902 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (17)
              Buried: 06 JUN 1902 in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (18 19 20)
              Father: Shelton SMITH
              Mother: Caroline SHERMAN
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Frances C. RIGGS
                Born: l 1876 (21)
                Died:
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. 1850 Oxford Census.
  2. 1860 Oxford Census.
  3. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  4. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  5. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 6.
    Eben Riggs married for his second wife Frances Clark of Middlebury. ne son was born to them, N. Clark Riggs, who lived at the old homestead. He married Carrie Smith, daughter of Shelton Smith of Oxford. He was of a very despondent disposition and always brooding over some imaginary trouble, wishing he was dead, and many times threatening suicide, and on the 29th of December, 1891, he went to his room and shot himself, making good this threat.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-06.html.]
  6. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 541.
  7. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 4.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan4.html.]
  8. Ibid., 4.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan4.html.]
  9. Ibid., 4.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan4.html.]
  10. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem2104.html.]
  11. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Lucy.
  12. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Caroline.
  13. 1870 Oxford Census.
    School teacher.
  14. 1880 Oxford Census.
  15. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 6.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-06.html.]
  16. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 4.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan4.html.]
  17. Ibid., 4.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan4.html.]
  18. Ibid., 4.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan4.html.]
  19. Record of the Returns made by Sextons of Cemeteries.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/sexton-reports/1901-1902-bottom.html.]
  20. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem3106.html.]
  21. 1880 Oxford Census.

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