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 1783 - 1876 (92 years)
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| Name |
Edmund S. RIGGS |
| Born |
25 Dec 1783 |
Colerain, Bedford County, Pennsylvania  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
1830 |
Tyler Co., WV [2] |
| Roll 200, p. 180 |
| Census |
3 Sep 1850 |
Dist. 61, Tyler Co., West Virginia [2] |
| Roll M432_979, p. 368 |
| Occupation |
3 Sep 1850 |
Dist. 61, Tyler Co., West Virginia [2] |
| farmer |
| Census |
28 Jun 1860 |
Pleasants Co., WV [2] |
| Roll M653_1371, p. 651 |
| Occupation |
28 Jun 1860 |
Pleasants Co., WV [2] |
| farmer |
| Census |
30 Jun 1870 |
Union Dist., Pleasants Co., West Virginia [2] |
| Roll M593_1697, p. 484 |
| FamilySearch ID |
GMT4-B9X |
| Military Service |
[2] |
| War of 1812 |
| Name |
Edmond RIGGS [2] |
| Name |
Edmund S RIGGS [2] |
| Occupation |
30 Jun 1870 |
Union Dist., Pleasants Co., West Virginia [2] |
| farmer |
| _UID |
6CE8206120A847EF928A1575FD305A323271 |
| Buried |
1876 |
Long Reach Cemetery, Sistersville, Tyler, West Virginia [2] |
| Died |
15 Feb 1876 |
St Marys, Pleasants, West Virginia |
| Person ID |
I29831 |
Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
28 Feb 2023 |
| Father |
James RIGGS, b. 15 Sep 1742, Rock Creek, Montgomery, Maryland , d. 22 Feb 1815, Grandview, Washington, Ohio (Age 72 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Ann JOHNSON, b. 10 Jul 1748, Clarksburg, Montgomery, Maryland , d. 9 Nov 1818, New Matamoras, Monroe, Ohio (Age 70 years) |
| Married |
1768 |
Frederick, Frederick, Maryland |
| Family ID |
F14039 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elizabeth Susannah ROBY, b. 22 Apr 1788, Washington County, Maryland , d. 11 Jan 1857, Tyler, West Virginia (Age 68 years) |
| Married |
Feb 1806 |
Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland |
| Children |
| | 1. Bazel RIGGS, b. 1806, Virginia (now West Virginia) , d. 1865 (Age 59 years) |
| | 2. Susanna RIGGS, b. 1808, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. Arvilla RIGGS, b. Abt 1809, Washington County, Ohio , d. 1840, Pittsfield, Pittsfield, Somerset, Massachusetts (Age ~ 31 years) |
| | 4. Calvin RIGGS, b. 1810, Tyler County, West Virginia , d. 1863, Missouri (Age 53 years) |
| | 5. Mary Ann RIGGS, b. 12 Jan 1812, Pleasants County, Virginia , d. 1887 (Age 74 years) |
| | 6. Owen RIGGS, b. 1814, Tyler County, West Virginia , d. 1875, Missouri (Age 61 years) |
| | 7. Lorenzo Dow RIGGS, b. 1815, d. 1818 (Age 3 years) |
| | 8. Ruth B. RIGGS, b. 1815, d. 1818 (Age 3 years) |
| | 9. Edmund C. RIGGS, b. 13 Jan 1819, New Martinsville, Wetzel, West Virginia , d. 15 Feb 1876, Miller County, Missouri (Age 57 years) |
| | 10. Elizabeth RIGGS, b. 18 Jan 1822, Tyler County, West Virginia , d. 16 Dec 1903, St. Marys, Pleasants County, West Virginia (Age 81 years) |
| | 11. Josiah RIGGS, b. 7 Feb 1824, Tyler County, West Virginia , d. 19 Jun 1855, Ohio RIver, Pleasants County, West Virginia (Age 31 years) |
| | 12. Oakey RIGGS, b. 12 Feb 1826, Tyler County, West Virginia , d. 11 Jan 1858, Ohio RIver, Pleasants County, West Virginia (Age 31 years) |
| | 13. Emaly RIGGS, b. 14 May 1828, Tyler County, West Virginia , d. 1870 (Age 41 years) |
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| Last Modified |
8 Apr 2019 |
| Family ID |
F14038 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From Bruce Varner's work:
Nancy Ann Varner (1841-1934) had four children, all of whom grew up with Nancy's maiden name Varner. Family members never openly spoke of why this was the case, and none of the long dead early descendants passed on any clues.
Therefore everyone who descends from any one of Nancy's four children falls into the same category. Nancy's four children were:
John Lawrence Varner (1866-1951)
William Owen Varner (1869-1937)
Eurelda Varner Newton (1871-1959)
Mary Varner Clemons Cove (1877-1956)
Y-DNA tests were conducted in 2012 by Bruce T. Varner (1951-), father Edwin Dale Varner, grandfather Bert Lonzo Varner, great-grandfather John Lawrence Varner, son of Nancy Ann Varner. This test revealed that genetically, John Lawrence Varner was fathered by a Riggs. Therefore all direct male to male descendants from John Lawrence carry Riggs Y-DNA.
Y-DNA tests were conducted in in 2013 by William Ray Varner (1943-), father Otto George Varner, grandfather William Owen Varner, son of Nancy Ann Varner. This second Y-DNA test revealed that genetically, William Owen Varner was also fathered by a Riggs.
Bruce T. Varner and William Ray Varner are a zero deviation Y-DNA match to each other.
Subsequent research into the Riggs families of Miller County, Missouri revealed that three brothers lived in Miller County during the same timeframe as Nancy.
Calvin Riggs (1810-1863)
Owen Riggs (1813-1875)
Edmund Riggs (1819-1877)
Since the completion of testing, evidence has proven that John Lawrence and William Owen were both fathered by a Riggs, one might assume that the two girls (Eurelda & Mary) could have been fathered by a Riggs also.
Since both Calvin and Owen Riggs were dead by the time the final daughter Mary was born, that leaves Edmund Riggs as the most likely father of the four.
Estate documents for Edmund Riggs proved that Nancy Varner worked for Edmund Riggs up until Edmund's time of death.
Antidotal evidence from family lore has long stated that Nancy Ann's parents, George and Harriet Varner were living "on the old Riggs place" when they were killed around the start of the Civil War.
Additional Y-DNA results surfaced from four descendants of James Riggs (1662-1744). These four James Riggs descendants showed close Y-DNA matches to Bruce & William Varner. The four Riggs descendants are:
Fredrick L. Riggs (1937-) [1 deviation]
Charles L. Riggs (1954-) [2 deviation]
Lawrence B. Riggs (1932-) [1 deviation]
Michael D. Riggs (1958-) [0 deviation]
Fredrick and Charles Riggs MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor) is William Riggs (1750-1833).
Lawrence and Michael, along with our Edmund Riggs MRCA is James Riggs (1742-1815).
Both William Riggs and James Riggs are two generations descended from the Riggs family patriarch James Riggs (1662-1744).
Transcription of text in Obituary for Edmund Riggs:
Riggs? February 15th, at his residence, foot of Long Reach, Pleasants county, W. Va., EDMUND RIGGS, in the ninety-third years of his age.
Mr. Riggs was born in 1783, in Bedford county, Pa. He came in October, 1799, to the Ohio with his father, who settled in what is now Washington county, Ohio. This region was then literally a "howling wilderness." He has killed eighteen panthers, and bears and wolves without number. In 1815 he came to his late place of residence, then Ohio county, Virginia. Of his eleven children only four survive him. He was a man of the strictest integrity, and was universally respected.
Grape Island, W. Va., Feb. 16, 1876
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| Sources |
- [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.
- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Dec 2022), entry for Edmund S. RIGGS, person ID 2DXR-MG2. (Reliability: 3).
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