Elizabeth Mary Guthrie

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• Religion: Member of the Clay Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church
• Census: 1850, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Elizabeth Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1860, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Elizabeth Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1870, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Elizabeth Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1880, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as E. M. Riggs, wife, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Newspaper: 28 Mar 1898; The Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio), p2: Golden Anniversary
• Census: 1900, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Elizabeth M. Riggs, wife, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1910, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Elizabeth M. Riggs, wife, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Obituary: 12 Jan 1916; Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio) 12 January 1916, p4
• Obituary: 18 Jan 1916; Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio) 18 January 1916, p4
• Newspaper: 15 Feb 1916; The Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio), p1

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Newspaper:

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.

Obituary:

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.

Obituary:

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:

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.

Died:

Elizabeth married Jacob Riggs on 28 Mar 1848 in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. Jacob (son of James Riggs and Mary Bare) was born on 22 Jan 1824 in Monroe County, Ohio, United States; died on 20 Dec 1915 in Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 22 Dec 1915 in Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1860, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Laura Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1870, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Laura F. Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs

Laura married William David Graham on 19 Nov 1872 in Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States. William was born on 18 Oct 1839 in Eureka, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; died on 18 Mar 1917 in Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 21 Mar 1917 in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1860, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Edward Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1870, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Edward A Riggs, works on farm, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1880, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Edward H. Riggs, son, farmer, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1900, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Edward A. Riggs, son, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1910, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Edward A. Riggs, son, manager of home farm, in the household of Jacob Riggs

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• Census: 1860, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Mary Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1870, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Mary H. Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1880, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Mary S. Riggs, daughter, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1900, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Mary H. Riggs, daughter, in the household of Jacob Riggs

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• Name: Rose B. Riggs
• Census: 1860, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Rosa Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1870, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Rosella B. Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1880, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Rose B. Riggs, daughter, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1900, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Rose Riggs, daughter, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1910, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Rosa Riggs, daughter, in the household of Jacob Riggs

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Died:

OBITUARY
Miss Rose Riggs Dead
Miss Rose Riggs passed away suddenly Saturday morning, May 14 1927 at the home of her brother-in-law, Mr. Bert Ingels, where she had been staying while her sister, [cannot read] Ingels, is in Columbus with her daughter, Mrs. Frances Ingels Brown. Miss Riggs complained of feeling badly to her niece, Miss Mildred Ingels, and a doctor was summoned but she died before medical aid could reach her.
Miss Riggs was aged 69 years, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Riggs. She leaves a brother, Mr. Ernest J. Riggs,and two sisters, Mrs. B. H. Ingels and Miss Mary Riggs.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at Clay Chapel, conducted by Rev. J. R. Fields of [cannot read] and Rev. Ernest Champer of Charleston. Interment was made in the Chapel cemetery.
[Note: Dates on tombstone read 1857-1927]
Gallipolis paper, 1927, Transcribed by Maxine Marshall

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• Census: 1860, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as James Riggs, age 6mo., in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1870, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as James T. Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1880, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as James T. Riggs, son, in the household of Jacob Riggs

James married Mary A. McCormick on 13 Oct 1886 in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. Mary was born in Mar 1864 in Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1870, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Jessie F. Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1880, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; Jessie T. Riggs, daughter, in the household of Jacob Riggs

Notes:

OBITUARY
.....Jessie F. Riggs-Gilman, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Riggs, was born April 11, 1862. She was converted and joined the M. E. Church when she was eleven years old, and lived a devoted Christian life. She was a woman of strong mind and was well educated. She was married to George W. Gilman, No. 4, 1883, and of this union two children were born -- Sheldon and bertha, who, with her husband, survive her. Her disease was consumption from which she has been suffering for two years or more. Some three months age, with the hope of improving her health, she went south to Marietta, Ga., where she remained until Dec. th, when all hope of recovery was abandoned, and in company with her brother and sister, E. E., and Mary Riggs, she started for home, reaching Cincinnati Friday evening at 5:20 P. M. where she boarded the steamer Telegraph, but her strength was exhausted and she died on board the Telegraph at 8:30 P. M., Dec. 11, 1891. Her funeral was preached at Clay Chapel, Sunday, Dec. 13, 1891. The large congregation that was at her funeral proved that she was loved and esteemed by many. Here are a few of her last words: "They are coming--grand! Oh, such music--Ed, don't you see him?" "Who, Jessie?" "Jesus: oh, how beautiful! Tell George I tried so hard to get home. Now he must come to me and bring Sheldon and Bertha. Heaven!" And at last, with a face illuminated, she exclaimed, "Jesus," and sunk peacefully to rest --P. Henry [Gallipolis Journal, Wednesday, December 23, 1891]

Jessie married George Washington Gilman on 4 Nov 1883 in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. George was born on 7 Mar 1852 in Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; died on 2 Jan 1929 in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 4 Jan 1929. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Lizzie Riggs
• Census: 1870, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Selissa Riggs, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1880, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Lizzie Riggs, daughter, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1910, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Celicia E. ingels, wife, 4 children/4 living, in the household of Berton H. Ingels

Cecelia married Berton Hamilton Ingels on 6 Aug 1890 in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. Berton (son of Jesse Thomas Ingels and Mary Ann Waddell) was born on 11 Jan 1865 in Harrison Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; died on 6 Jun 1955 in Batavia, Clermont County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 8 Jun 1955 in Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1880, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Earnest A. Riggs, son, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Census: 1910, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Earnest J. Riggs, son, retail merchant of building material, in the household of Jacob Riggs
• Physical Description: 12 Sep 1918; medium height, medium build, blue eyes, light brown hair
• Military: 12 Sep 1918, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; registered for the WWI Draft
• Occupation: 12 Sep 1918, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; farmer
• Residence: 12 Sep 1918, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  716 2nd Ave.

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• Census: 1900, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Sheldon Gilman, grandson, farm laborer, in the household of Jacob Riggs

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• Census: 1900, Clay Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as Bertha M. Gilman, grand daughter, in the household of Jacob Riggs