Elizabeth Mary Guthrie

Elizabeth Mary Guthrie[1]

Female 1828 - 1916  (87 years)

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  • Name Elizabeth Mary Guthrie 
    Born 24 Aug 1828  Newbury, Washington County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Female 
    Census 1850  Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    as Elizabeth Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs 
    Census 1860  Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    as Elizabeth Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs 
    Census 1870  Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    as Elizabeth Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs 
    Census 1880  Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    as E. M. Riggs, wife, in the household of Jacob Riggs 
    Newspaper 28 Mar 1898  [7
    The Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio), p2: Golden Anniversary 

    • Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio) 28 March 1898, p2
      A Golden Wedding
      Today, March 28, '98, is the 50th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Riggs, of Raccoon Island, two prominent citizens of this county. Mr. Riggs was aged 28 and Mrs. Riggs 26 when they were married. They were married on the Guthrie farm adjoining their own. Mrs. Riggs' maiden name was Elizabeth Guthrie. She was a daughter of the late Truman and Hannah Guthrie. Mr. Riggs was the son of James Riggs, all prominent people. They became the parents of eight children—Edward, Mary Rozella, Mrs. Lizzie Ingels, Ernest all living, and Laura, Jessie and James dead. When they went to housekeeping Mr. Guthrie gave the bride a kicking cow that was worthless and Mr. Riggs had a horse. This was their entire capital. They went in debt for a farm and by industry and good management secured enough of this world's goods for themselves and children. Mr. Riggs is now among the largest tax-payers in the county. They had thought about celebrating their golden wedding day, but their recent bereavement of their son caused them to give up the idea of it. While their life has not been void of cares and heartaches common to life, they have had much to enjoy and transmit to others. Both have generally had the best of health, which is a great blessing of itself. Their many friends will wish them many returns of their wedding anniversary and that their lives may run smoothly to the end of all things. Mr. Riggs received a fall from a haymow about eight feet to the ground, Sunday morning, and sustained some bruises to his head and shoulder, from which he is suffering, but it is not thought of as serious.
    Census 1900  Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    as Elizabeth M. Riggs, wife, in the household of Jacob Riggs 
    Census 1910  Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    as Elizabeth M. Riggs, wife, in the household of Jacob Riggs 
    Died 11 Jan 1916  Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Cause: of Acute Lobar Pneumonia 

    Obituary 12 Jan 1916  [11
    Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio) 12 January 1916, p4 

    • Mrs. Jacob Riggs passes away.
      Mrs. Elizabeth Riggs, wife of the late Jacob Riggs, passed away at her home at Raccoon Island at 4 P.M. Tuesday, after a week's illness with pneumonia, being in her eighty-eighth year. She has been in delicate health since the decease of Mr. Riggs three weeks ago, gradually failing until the end.
      She was born at Raccoon Island, the daughter of Hannah and Truman Guthrie.
      She and Mr. Riggs were married over 65 years and to this union were born eight children, five surviving, namely, Mrs. B. H. Ingels, Misses Rose, and Mary, Ernest and Edward, one sister, Mrs. J. L. McDaniel, is left to mourn her death.
      She was a woman of noble character, charitable and kind in every way in her goodly number of years here made many friends who are grieved at ther demise.
      The funeral services will be conducted at Clay Chapel at one o'clock Thursday afternoon, interment following a the church cemetery, under direction of Wetherholt.
    Buried 13 Jan 1916  Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Address:
    Clay Chapel Cemetery 
    Obituary 18 Jan 1916  [13
    Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio) 18 January 1916, p4 

    • Elizabeth Mary (Guthrie) Riggs
      Mrs. Elizabeth (Guthrie) Riggs, daughter of Truman and Hannah Guthrie, was born Aug. 24, 1828, at Newbury, Washington Co., O., and departed this life Jan 11th, 1916, at the age of 87 years 4 months and 17 days.
      When eight years of age her parents emigrated to Gallia County, O., moving their household goods and lumber for a house on a flat boat down the Ohio river to the farm where J. L. McDaniel now resides.
      There he built a home and reared a family of 7 children of whom Mrs. Riggs was the eldest. Mrs. J. L. McDaniel, the youngest sister of Mrs. Riggs survives her. She was converted at the age of eleven and united with the Clay Chapel M. E. Church.
      She was united in marriage to the late Hon. Jacob Riggs in the year 1848, and they began their married life on the farm near Raccoon Island which E. J. Riggs now owns and where they lived for 22 years, then moving to their present home they completed a pleasant and Holy union of nearly 68 years.
      To them were born 8 children, 5 of whom are still living who with one sister, seven grand-children and a host of friends are left to mourn the loss of mother, besides the 8 children she raised and educated two grandchildren and one niece and her home sheltered many orphan children..
      In the history of Clay Chapel she has been worthily called Dorcas for such has been her influence in the church and in the world that many will mourn for her as they did for Dorcas of Joppa, and wish that Peter were here to restore her to life.
      Mother Riggs possessed all the noble traits of character, charitable, modest, kind and meek and cheerful, ever in the midst of sorrows she was patient, and faithful to the end.
    Newspaper 15 Feb 1916  [14
    The Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio), p1 

    • MR. AND MRS. JACOB RIGGS
      A Former Pastor of Theirs Writes of Their Characters.
      Writing to us from Albany, NY, the Rev. Joseph Clarke, who was pastor at Clay Chapel in 1889, says among other things of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Riggs.
      To fully appreciate the characters of Jacob and Elizabeth Riggs, one must have touched them in their prime must have come into contact with them when they were active factors in the life of the community, before the "keepers of the house trembled," before the shoulders were bowed, before steps became wearied and slow, before physical vigor waned.
      The real Jacob and Elizabeth Riggs were unknown to the present generation. Their years were extended into it, but to today's Gallia County citizenship Mr. and Mrs. Riggs were simply relics of "days long gone by" — mere shadows of what they once were in industry and community activity. Honored have been the young people of the past decade who have been privileged to touch this aged couple in their declining years (as one is honored to greet patriarchs as they pass out), but privileged indeed have been those who knew Jacob and Elizabeth Riggs at their physical, mental and spiritual best, when they moved simply and unostentatiously among neighbors with strength and with a benign influence of which they seemed wholly unconscious.
      I remember an occasion when Mr. Riggs walked three miles through the mud over the hills to examine some hogs a certain farmer was anxious to sell. The market was down and the purchase price was necessarily low. Taxes were due and the man needed the money Mr. Riggs knew that if the farmer could hold the hogs for a month he could sell them at a much higher rate. Did Mr. Riggs buy them? No! He voluntarily loaned the farmer enough cash to pay the pressing taxes, and in a month bought the hogs, paying for them the higher market price. In other words he walked six miles, lost a half a day, and loaned a distressed neighbor $200 tax money, without interest, in order to help him out of a hole, and make it possible to tide over a season of depressed prices until the hog market was better. The huge thing about the transaction was this, Mr. Riggs was glad to do it, for he lived by the Golden Rule.
      Mrs. Riggs was a real missionary to the needy. Hundreds of people will recall her deeds of mercy. The poor and the sick and the unfortunate always found in her a friend. And her bounty and ministry were done so quietly that even her left hand knew not what her right hand had done. Such people cannot live 75 years in a community without uplifting.
    Religion Member of the Clay Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church 
    Person ID I6977  TangledRoots
    Last Modified 23 Aug 2021 

    Family Jacob Riggs,   b. 22 Jan 1824, Monroe County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Dec 1915, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years) 
    Married 28 Mar 1848  Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [15
    Notes 

    • A TRUE FATHER AND MOTHER IN ISRAEL
      Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Riggs
      On the 28th of March, near __?__ and Mrs. Jacob Riggs of Raccoon Island will have rounded out the 66th year of their married life. This is a privilege permitted to a very few, and is a record unigue in Gallia County, if not in the entire state. Mr. Riggs was born in Monroe county, Ohio, on Jan. 22, 1824, and only last month passed his 90th milestone. He, with his parents, located in Gallia county in 1832.
      Elizabeth Gutherie was born in Washington county on August 24, 1828, and moved with her parents, Truman and Hannah Gutherie, to this county in 1833. She and Mr. Riggs were married on March 28, 1848. They began their married life on a 100-acre farm, now known as "River-side," near Raccoon Island, where they lived until the death of Mr. Riggs' father in 1870, when they bought the "home place" where they now reside.
      Mr. and Mrs. Riggs were blessed with eight children, five of whom are now living, viz: Edward, Mary, Rose, Celicia (Mrs. B. H. Ingels) and Ernest, who was formerly connected with the State Dairy and Food Commission, but now a staff man at the Agricultural Experiment station at Wooster. Three, Mrs. W. D. Graham, Mrs. George Gilman and James, Have passed away from earth. Besides these, a niece and two grandchildren were raised and educated by Mr. and Mrs. Riggs.
      Mr. Riggs has always lived the life of an earnest, sober, Christian gentleman. He never used tobacco nor liquor in his life, and has always borne himself in such manner as to command the respect of all. As a county commissioner for six years he made an honorable record, but cared naught for political preferment and that was his only venture into public life.
      This worthy couple is now approaching the shadow land, each happy in the other's companionship. Much of life's happiness has been their's and much of its sorrows. They have lived and are content. And with the Psalmist, they can say "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.....Yea, though I walk through the valley of ___?___of death, I will fear no evil, for thos art with me.....and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." [Source: Gallipolis, Ohio, Wedensday, February 25, 1914 - old tattered newspaper clipping]
    Children 
     1. Laura Francis Riggs,   b. 20 May 1849, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Feb 1884, Eureka, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 34 years)
     2. Edward Alexander Riggs,   b. 28 Dec 1851, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Dec 1917, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     3. Mary Hannah Riggs,   b. Nov 1853, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jan 1935, Athens Township, Athens County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
     4. Rosella Belle Riggs,   b. 3 Aug 1857, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 May 1927, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     5. James Truman Riggs,   b. 7 Dec 1859, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Feb 1898, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)
     6. Jessie Freemont Riggs,   b. 11 Apr 1862, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Dec 1891, New Richmond, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years)
     7. Cecelia Elizabeth Riggs,   b. 18 Aug 1864, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Mar 1942, Union Township, Ross County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     8. Ernest Jacob Riggs,   b. 19 Jun 1873, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Oct 1959, Gallia County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F2747  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart