Zadoc T Riggs

Capt of wagon train. Wife Jane filed a Donation Land Claim in September 1851 on arrival in Oregon.

From the publication entitled "Portrait and biographical record of the Willamette Valley", published 1903:

Zadoc Riggs was a farmer of Illinois until 1850, when he started with his wife and five children for Oregon, but he died while on the way, near the last crossing of the Sweetwater and was there buried. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Jane Leib, was born in eastern Tessneess and with her father, John Lieb, went to Scott county, Ill., where she became the wife of Mr. Riggs. After her husband's death she continued the journey to Oregon, where she spent her remaining days. Her brother-in-law James B. Riggs, had settled in Polk county in 1845, and to that locality she went. She secured a donation land claim eight miles north of Dallas and there reared her family, her death occurring in 1872.

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