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             Husband: David Clarke RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)
                Born: 20 APR 1832 (13)
             Married: 11 NOV 1855 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (26)
                Died: 17 FEB 1913 (14)
              Buried: in Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (15)
              Father: Joel RIGGS
              Mother: Hannah POPE
             Spouses: Harriet E. CHURCH
                Wife: Esther A. TWITCHELL (16 17 18 19 20 21 22)
                Born: 20 APR 1820 (23)
                Died: 19 DEC 1891 (24)
              Buried: in Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (25)
              Father: Jeremiah Hull TWITCHELL
              Mother: Annie T. CANDEE
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), #20.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/josiah-twitchell_rowland-homestead.html

    http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Twitchell_Homestead.pdf

    NOTE: A few corrections:
    The house would have been built by Joseph Twitchell, the great grandfather of Jeremy.
    Jeremiah5, Ebenezer4, Wooster3, Joseph2, John1 [the original settler in Oxford in the 1790's]
    Jeremy's daughter was named Esther, she married David C. Riggs, as shown at that location on the 1868 map.]
  2. 1875 Oxford Agricultural Society ((http://www.our-oxford.info/oxford-agricultural-society/oxford-ag-society.html)), 13.
    Chairman of Committee.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/oxford-agricultural-society/1875_13.html.]
  3. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  4. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  5. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  6. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  7. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 15.
    David C. Riggs who lived on the Oxford road near Hoadley's mill married Ester Twitchell of Oxford, who died Dec. 13, 1891. for his first wife, and his second was Harriet Church who survives him. For many years he lived on Christian Street in Oxford, until the place was purchased by Philip Roland. He died Feb. 17, 1912.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-15.html.]
  8. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 37.
  9. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 84.
    1884 ... Town Officers ... Road Inspector - D. C. Riggs.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/p84.html.]
  10. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 544.
  11. 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
    D. C. Riggs, Christian Street, at the end of Towner Lane, in the old Joseph Twitchell House.
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/1868TownerLane.jpg.]
  12. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 424.
  13. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 62.
  14. Ibid., 62.
  15. Ibid., 62.
  16. Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), 25.
  17. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), #20.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/josiah-twitchell_rowland-homestead.html

    http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Twitchell_Homestead.pdf

    NOTE: A few corrections:
    The house would have been built by Joseph Twitchell, the great grandfather of Jeremy.
    Jeremiah5, Ebenezer4, Wooster3, Joseph2, John1 [the original settler in Oxford in the 1790's]
    Jeremy's daughter was named Esther, she married David C. Riggs, as shown at that location on the 1868 map.]
  18. 1850 Oxford Census.
  19. 1860 Oxford Census.
  20. 1870 Oxford Census.
  21. 1880 Oxford Census.
  22. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 544.
  23. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 62.
  24. Ibid., 62.
  25. Ibid., 62.
  26. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 110.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/110.html.]

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