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             Husband: Charles Samuel RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5)
                Born: 13 JUL 1832 in Prospect, New Haven, CT (6)
             Married:
                Died: 09 OCT 1884 (7)
              Buried: in Gunntown Cemetery, Naugatuck, New Haven, CT (8 9)
              Father: William B. RIGGS
              Mother: Eliza BASSETT
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Mary C. GORDON (10 11 12 13)
                Born: JUN 1842 (14)
                Died:
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Nellie RIGGS (15 16 17 18 19)
                Born: SEP 1858 (20)
                Died: 29 APR 1907 in Naugatuck, New Haven, CT
             Spouses: Rollin T. BUNNELL; Frederick F. DOWNS
02               (F): Mary E. RIGGS
                Born: 1860 (21)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
03               (M): Frederick RIGGS (22 23)
                Born: l 1864 (24)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
04               (M): Elmer RIGGS (25 26)
                Born: l 1867 (27)
                Died:
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. 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), 535.
    Company K, Thirteenth Regiment Infantry ...
    Corporals ...
    Riggs, Charles S.
    Residence: Naugatuck
    Enlisted: Oct. 23, '61
    Mustered in: Nov. 27, '61
    Remarks: Disc. dis. Jan. 23, '63.
  2. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 504.
  3. 1860 Naugatuck Census.
    Joiner.
  4. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
    Farmer.
    [Charles and family are living w/ his parents.]
  5. 1880 Naugatuck Census.
    Farm laborer.
    [Living next to his parents.]
  6. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 10678.
  7. David Davis and Levi Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Gunntown Cemetery, #128.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/gtcemscan128.html.]
  8. Ibid., #128.
    Riggs, George, M. D., U. S. Navy, died 1885, age 40.
    Riggs, Charles S. (Corp.), died Oct. 9, 1884, age 52, Co. K., 13 Inf. Conn. Vols., G.A.R.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/gtcemscan128.html.]
  9. Gunntown Cemetery, Photograph - Naugatuck, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem9805.html.]
  10. 1860 Naugatuck Census.
  11. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
  12. 1880 Naugatuck Census.
  13. 1900 Naugatuck Census.
    [Living w/ daughter Nellie and family.]
  14. Ibid.
  15. 1860 Naugatuck Census.
    Ellen.
  16. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
    Nellie.
  17. 1880 Naugatuck Census.
    Nellie | works in rubber shop.
  18. 1900 Naugatuck Census.
  19. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 121.
  20. 1900 Naugatuck Census.
  21. 1860 Naugatuck Census.
  22. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
  23. 1880 Naugatuck Census.
    farm laborer.
  24. 1880 Oxford Census.
  25. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
  26. 1880 Naugatuck Census.
    [His name is written under his parents, then crossed out.]
  27. 1870 Naugatuck Census.

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