John B. Riggs

Notes

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142024060

The John Riggs family were neighbors of Mary and Nancy Tucker according to the 1850 Census.

John Riggs died in Wayne County, KY at night from a fall while escaping from guerillas during the war.

The September 3, 1850 Census North Division Mount Airy, Surry County,NC lists

• John Riggs age 46 farmer
• wife Cinthia Riggs age 42
• sons William Riggs age 23 school teacher,
• John B. Riggs age 19 school teacher
• Iaacis Riggs age 11,
• Thomas Riggs age 1 and daughters
• Rebecca Riggs age 16,
• Sally Riggs age 14,
• Mary Riggs age 9 and
• Cintha age 6
• living in household #490.

1860 Clinton Co, KY census

• Household Members: Name Age
• John Riggs 56
• Eda Riggs 52
• Andrew Young 13
• John Smith 16
• Sally Smith 7
• Rosea Young 21
• Mary Riggs 19
• Betsey Smith 85

References

• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2R1-CXL5 : 11 March 2018), John Riggs and Sinthy Lawson, 21 Jan 1826; citing North Carolina, United States, p. p197, North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm 422,157.
• Kentucky, Marriage Records, 1852-1914 per Ancestry.comNotes: Marriage of John Riggs and Eda Young in Clinton Kentucky on 1852.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142024060
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LCRT-62V