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             Husband: Stephen RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8)
                Born: 1785 (9)
          Christened: 14 OCT 1794 in Oxford Congregational Church (10)
             Married:
                Died: 28 NOV 1872 (11)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (12)
              Father: David RIGGS
              Mother: Betty
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Sarah WHEELER (13 14 15 16)
                Born: 1792 (17)
                Died: 05 JAN 1878 (18)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (19)
              Father: Moses WHEELER
              Mother: Lucy HICKOCK
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Joseph N. RIGGS (20 21 22 23 24)
                Born: l 1816 (25)
                Died: 22 SEP 1877 (26)
             Spouses: Julia E. BEECHER
02               (F): Lucinda RIGGS (27 28 29 30 31)
                Born: l 1812 in Connecticut (32)
                Died: 25 MAY 1896 (33)
             Spouses: Elizure TALMAGE; Gilman W. PUSHEE
03               (F): Minerva RIGGS (34)
                Born:
                Died:
             Spouses: William WARNER
04               (F): Anna Maria RIGGS (35 36 37 38 39)
                Born: l 1820 in Pennsylvania (40 41 42)
                Died: 08 OCT 1898 (43)
             Spouses: Sheldon SANFORD
05               (F): Clarissa RIGGS (44)
                Born:
                Died:
             Spouses: Nathan DOWD
06               (F): Nancy E. RIGGS (45 46)
                Born: l JUL 1826 (47)
                Died: 25 JAN 1857 (48)
             Spouses: Horace Buckingham WOOSTER
07               (M): David W. RIGGS (49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57)
                Born: 29 DEC 1830 (58)
                Died: 26 SEP 1929 (59)
             Spouses: Mary Louisa LOUNSBURY
08               (F): Sarah Jane RIGGS (60)
                Born: l 1833 (61)
                Died:
             Spouses: John WARNER

Footnotes

  1. The Diaries of Laura Davis 1856-1857.
    Fri 2nd Clear. Stephen Riggs came here.
    [Jan 1857
    http://www.our-oxford.info/diaries/Laura_Davis-1856-1857/Laura_Davie-1856-57.html.]
  2. 1830 Oxford Census.
  3. 1840 Oxford Census.
  4. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  5. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  6. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  7. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
    Resided in Oxford, Ct.
  8. F. W. Beers, 1868 map (Reproduced for the Oxford Historical Society, Inc. 1977).
    [Excerpt from1868 map, Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm
    S. Riggs, near the copper mine.
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/1868PinesBridge.jpg.]
  9. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  10. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 25.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/025.html.]
  11. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #24.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan24.html.]
  12. Ibid., #24.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan24.html.]
  13. 1850 Oxford Census.
  14. 1860 Oxford Census.
  15. 1870 Oxford Census.
  16. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  17. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #24.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan24.html.]
  18. Ibid., #24.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan24.html.]
  19. Ibid., #24.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan24.html.]
  20. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 190.
    ... of Oxford ...
  21. 1840 Oxford Census.
  22. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  23. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  24. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  25. 1860 Oxford Census.
  26. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #24.
  27. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 283.
    ... of Oxford ...
  28. 1850 Oxford Census.
  29. 1860 Oxford Census.
  30. 1870 Oxford Census.
  31. 1880 Beacon Falls Census.
  32. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #23.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan23.html.]
  33. Ibid., #23.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan23.html.]
  34. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  35. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 67.
    Ann Maria Riggs.
  36. 1850 Bethany Census.
    Maria.
  37. 1860 Oxford Census.
  38. 1870 Seymour Census.
    [Gives birth place as Pennsylvania.]
  39. 1880 Seymour Census.
  40. 1850 Bethany Census.
    Sanford, Sheldon | 31 | Farmer | Connecticut
    Maria | 29 | | Pennsylvania
    Frank | 2 | | Connecticut.
  41. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Pennsylvania.
  42. 1880 Seymour Census.
    [Born Pennsylvania, both parents born CT.]
  43. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #17.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan17.html.]
  44. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  45. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 111.
    Horace B. Wooster of Middlebury and Nancy E. Riggs of Oxford, Nov. 12, 1848.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/111.html.]
  46. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  47. Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Wooster St. Cemetery, Naugatuck, 261.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/wocemscan261.html.]
  48. Ibid., 261.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/wocemscan261.html.]
  49. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  50. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  51. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  52. 1880 Beacon Falls Census.
    Farmer.
  53. 1900 Beacon Falls Census.
    Farmer.
  54. 1910 Beacon Falls Census.
    Farmer.
  55. 1920 Beacon Falls Census.
  56. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 544.
    Resides at Pines Bridge.
  57. Ibid., 509.
  58. Ibid., 543.
  59. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #12.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan12.html.]
  60. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
    Jane.
  61. 1850 Oxford Census.

Revised: 24-Mar-10
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