Absalom Hicks Riggs

GEDCOM Note

!Birth: Florence Chappell Bowe - Lucy Denham records sent to her from P aul Riggs Green of Mexico, Mo.

!Marriage: "Boone County Marriages, 1841-1849", Missouri Miscellany, S tate-wide Missouri Genealogical Records, Vol. XV, 1983 CGRS, pg. 1 -22.

!Census: 1850 U.S. Federal Census of Boone Co., Mo. Nat'l Arch ives microfilm M432 Roll 392 FHL microfim #0014872 page 359, f amily #462 *lists his age as 29 and birthplace as Missouri.

!Additional Sources: 1) Pre-Civil War Settlement and Migration Data Ba se. Lists of Pre-1910 Vital Statistic Summaries. Boone County lists f rom Columbia,Missouri Herald. by Virginia Easley DeMarce, Nov. 1990 v ersion. FHL fiche #6075754-6075761. *lists his birth as about 1 821 in Missouri and his marriage to Caroline Rowland on 24 April 1 845 in Boone Co., Mo. [vedemarce.ged]

NARA M-432, Roll 392, 1850 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Dist. No. 8, p. 360, #462/462: Absalom H. Riggs, 29, m, farmer, $600, Missouri; Caroline M, 20, f, MO; Silas E, 4, m, MO; William, 2, m, MO; George W., 1/12, m, MO.
NOTE: Based on identification of neighbors, his residence was probably Rocky Fork Township.