Bazel Wesley Riggs

Other Events:

• Newspaper: 20 Jan 1853; Gallipolis Journal (Gallipolis, Ohio), 20 January 1853, page 3
• Newspaper: 8 Sep 1853; Gallipolis Journal (Gallipolis, Ohio), 8 September 1853, p2
• Census: 1880, Douglas County, Colorado, United States; as Bazel W, Riggs, dry goods merchant, head of household
• Census: 1885, Douglas County, Colorado, United States
• Occupation: 1885, Douglas County, Colorado, United States; Politician
• Census: 1900, Douglas County, Colorado, United States

Notes:

Newspaper:

ROAD NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that a petition was presented and filed with the Commissioners of Gallia county, at their regular session in December, A.D. 1852, praying for and alteration in the State road leading from Sample's Landing to Gallipolis, commencing at or near the Forge in Ohio township, running back to the foot of the river hill, through lands owned by different individuals, to Teen's run in Clay township; thence the best route across said run; thence back from the river near the foot of the river hill the most practicable route for a good road through lands owned by Phillip and Andrew Cubbage, Jas. McClellan, James Riggs, R. Hay, Jas. Flack, Samuel Cole, B. W. Riggs, Robert Dye, W. Sheets, Truman Guthrie and Wm. F. Goolden, to Raccoon creek at a place called Rocky Ford; thence across said creek through lands owned by M. Lowry, Jacob Riggs, James Gatewood, Grasson Davis, Jno. Morton, Geo. Pool, Thos. Willey, heirs of Jas. Coffman, John Nesbit, Nahum Ward, Travis Brown, Mary, Anselm T. and A. N. Lasley, to a bridge across Long Run; thence to a bridge across Mud Run; thence across said bridge to the left at the foot of the river hills, through lands owned by Aburrn's heirs, Wm. Walker, to a creek near the Gallia Furnace Landing; thence to the left of a . Bentley's house and crib, through lands owned by Bentley, Thompson & Co., Wm. Walker and Charles Creuzet, to the west end of a bridge recently erected across Chickamoga creek on the Portsmouth road in Gallipolis township; and that at the March session, A. D. 1853, said petition will be read, and the legal proceedings taken for a survey and establishing of said road.

Newspaper:

We acknowledge the receipt of a basket of fine peaches and most lucious grapes, from our friend B. W. Riggs. The peaches will compare favorably with those of Mr. Middleswart, and excel every thing of the kind yet brought to this market. They sold readily at one dollar per bushel. (Gallipolis Journal. Septemeber 8 1853, page 2)

Bazel married Frances Cubbage on 8 May 1845 in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. Frances was born in Nov 1821 in Ohio, United States; died in 1911 in Greenland, Douglas County, Colorado, United States; was buried in 1911 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]