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             Husband: George Wheeler RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: l 1833 in Connecticut (7)
             Married:
                Died:
              Father: Joel RIGGS
              Mother: Hannah POPE
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Mary Ann BENHAM (8 9 10)
                Born: 1831 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (11)
                Died: 1914 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (12)
              Buried: in Southford Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (13 14)
              Father: Eber BENHAM
              Mother: Olive C. ROOT
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Edwin B. RIGGS (15)
                Born: 1857 (16)
                Died: 1879 (17)
              Buried: in Southford Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (18)
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 158.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/158.html.]
  2. Compiled by Authority of the General Assembly Under Direction of the Adjutants-General, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1889), 696.
    [Company B, 20th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers Infantry
    Residence Oxford
    Enlisted 4 Aug 1862
    Mustered in 8 Sep 1862
    Mustered out 13 Jun 1865.]
  3. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 514.
    The War of the Rebellion ...
    Soldiers Furnished by the Town of Oxford ...
    Twentieth Regiment Infantry, C. V. ...
    Riggs, George W., private company B, August 4, 1862. Mustered out June 13, 1865, Washington, D. C.
  4. 1850 Oxford Census.
  5. 1860 Middlebury Census.
  6. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 544.
  7. 1850 Oxford Census.
  8. 1860 Middlebury Census.
  9. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Nurse.
    [Living w/ parents.]
  10. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 544.
  11. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 21.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan21.html.]
  12. Ibid., 21.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan21.html.]
  13. Ibid., 21.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan21.html.]
  14. Southford Cemetery Photograph - Oxford CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem3371.html.]
  15. 1860 Middlebury Census.
  16. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 21.
  17. Ibid., 21.
  18. Ibid., 21.

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