OBITUARY. RANSOM RIGGS [Jr.]
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 2, 1888, Volume XXVIII, Number 36, page 4, column 2
NINEVEH ~ Ransom Riggs [Jr.] died at his home just north of here on last Friday morning at 2 o’clock and was buried the following day at 2 p.m.
We failed to learn the obituary items, but can say that we have known Mr. Riggs for some time and have ever known him to be an honest and upright man in every particular, ever ready and willing to help those who were needy and in fact ever trying to do what he thought was the purpose of man while on earth. While attending the Old Settlers picnic at Trafalgar last September a year ago he fell from a wagon sustaining injuries which in all probability brought him to the grave. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn his loss.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 9, 1888, Volume XXVIII, Number 37, page 1 column 5
Ransom Riggs [Jr.] was born 2 miles east of Greensburg, Decatur county, Indiana, November 7, 1825 and died February 24, 1888, being 82 [62] years three months and 17 days old at the time of his death. His parents Ransom and Sarah Riggs emigrated from Livingston county N.Y., in the year 1823 to Flatrock, Shelby County, Indiana and from Flatrock to two miles east of Greensburg where the said Ransom was born as above stated. He immigrated to Johnson county in the spring of 1836 (in the eleventh year of his age) with his parents to the farm now owned by Nelson Sellers southwest of Franklin and from there to their farm on Timothy Ridge (now owned by H. C. Barnett) where he lived with his parents until the time of his marriage which was to Miss [Catherine] Katy Vickerman, August 25th [23rd], 1859. He then went to housekeeping on his own farm joining his father’s on the south known as the Gillaspy farm where he lived at the time of his death, leaving a wife and six children, two sons and four daughters, the oldest of his daughters is married and has three children. His children are all grown the youngest is 18. He was the fifth [6th] child of his father’s family, which consisted of 5 sons and 4 daughters, also the 5th child to die, his parents and three sisters and one brother having crossed the chilly tide before him, one sister and three brothers surviving him. He was a professed Christian having united with the old school Baptist church at Bethel and was baptized in December 1873 and ever since been an example of that church. As a neighbor but few are his equal ever ready to oblige or lend a helping hand in the time of need. No beggar went from his door unfed. He was strictly temperance and a friend to education, a man of ambition and great firmness, yet always pursuing his course pleasantly and respecting the opinions of others. This made for him a host of friends who feel that their loss is irreparable, and deeply do we sympathize with the bereaved family especially the dear companion of his bosom who will awake tomorrow from a widowed bed to realize anew that her beloved and adored husband who has been her stay and counselor for the last 28 years and almost half has gone from her forever except on fair memory’s page his love is written n’er to be erased while she is permitted to remain this side of the deep still river of death and her sweet consolation is that he has only gone before and will await her coming, as he rests in the shade on the evergreen shore, where the just are made perfect in the eternal adoration of the living God. Mary A. Barnett.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
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'History of Johnson County, Indiana' by Branigin, 1913, page 763, Ninevah Township
Ranson Riggs [Jr.], deceased, was one of the pioneers of Johnson County. He was born November 7[5], 1825, and was the son of Ransom and Sarah (Tremain) Riggs. The father, of German [actually English]descendant, was born March 6, 1789, and died January 16, 1863. The mother was a native of New Hampshire [actually born Berkshire Co., MA], born June 30, 1795. Our subject was reared on a farm in Johnson County... he departed this life February 24, 1888. Aug 25, 1859, he was united in marriage with Catherine Vickerman, a daughter of William and Marion (Crichton) Vickerman, whose father was of English [actually German] descent, born April 21, 1796; and the mother of Scotch descent, born November 20, 1795, and departed this life September 12, 1850. This union was blessed with the following children: William V., born August 1, 1860; Sarah M., July 16, 1862; Elizabeth J., May 22, 1864; James A., May 23, 1866; Anna M., September 1, 1868; and Laura S., March 10, 1870. The mother of these children was born January 2, 1831. ...
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15 March 1865 (1863?) Issue of "Sign of the Times" obituary by Brother Beebe.
BURIAL: William Riggs Farm
They had smallpox in Indiana in the 1850's and 1860's in central Indiana. Sarah Tremain Riggs, daughter of Elijah Tremain and Mary Holmes, died when she and her husband drove a wagon, on the winter, to the farm of their son, Samuel Davis Riggs in Pulaski Co., IN. Their daughter-in-law, Grace Greenwood Riggs and three of their grandchildren [Henry, John & Martha] died, Sarah died, and her husband, Ransom Riggs drove, in the winter, Sarah home her coffin in the wagon, buried her and then Ransom Riggs died that week. All in Nov and Dec 1862 and Jan 1863.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 2, 1888, Volume XXVIII, Number 36, page 4, column 2
NINEVEH ~ Ransom Riggs [Jr.] died at his home just north of here on last Friday morning at 2 o’clock and was buried the following day at 2 p.m.
We failed to learn the obituary items, but can say that we have known Mr. Riggs for some time and have ever known him to be an honest and upright man in every particular, ever ready and willing to help those who were needy and in fact ever trying to do what he thought was the purpose of man while on earth. While attending the Old Settlers picnic at Trafalgar last September a year ago he fell from a wagon sustaining injuries which in all probability brought him to the grave. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn his loss.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 9, 1888, Volume XXVIII, Number 37, page 1 column 5
Ransom Riggs [Jr.] was born 2 miles east of Greensburg, Decatur county, Indiana, November 7, 1825 and died February 24, 1888, being 82 [62] years three months and 17 days old at the time of his death. His parents Ransom and Sarah Riggs emigrated from Livingston county N.Y., in the year 1823 to Flatrock, Shelby County, Indiana and from Flatrock to two miles east of Greensburg where the said Ransom was born as above stated. He immigrated to Johnson county in the spring of 1836 (in the eleventh year of his age) with his parents to the farm now owned by Nelson Sellers southwest of Franklin and from there to their farm on Timothy Ridge (now owned by H. C. Barnett) where he lived with his parents until the time of his marriage which was to Miss [Catherine] Katy Vickerman, August 25th [23rd], 1859. He then went to housekeeping on his own farm joining his father’s on the south known as the Gillaspy farm where he lived at the time of his death, leaving a wife and six children, two sons and four daughters, the oldest of his daughters is married and has three children. His children are all grown the youngest is 18. He was the fifth [6th] child of his father’s family, which consisted of 5 sons and 4 daughters, also the 5th child to die, his parents and three sisters and one brother having crossed the chilly tide before him, one sister and three brothers surviving him. He was a professed Christian having united with the old school Baptist church at Bethel and was baptized in December 1873 and ever since been an example of that church. As a neighbor but few are his equal ever ready to oblige or lend a helping hand in the time of need. No beggar went from his door unfed. He was strictly temperance and a friend to education, a man of ambition and great firmness, yet always pursuing his course pleasantly and respecting the opinions of others. This made for him a host of friends who feel that their loss is irreparable, and deeply do we sympathize with the bereaved family especially the dear companion of his bosom who will awake tomorrow from a widowed bed to realize anew that her beloved and adored husband who has been her stay and counselor for the last 28 years and almost half has gone from her forever except on fair memory’s page his love is written n’er to be erased while she is permitted to remain this side of the deep still river of death and her sweet consolation is that he has only gone before and will await her coming, as he rests in the shade on the evergreen shore, where the just are made perfect in the eternal adoration of the living God. Mary A. Barnett.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
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'History of Johnson County, Indiana' by Branigin, 1913, page 763, Ninevah Township
Ranson Riggs [Jr.], deceased, was one of the pioneers of Johnson County. He was born November 7[5], 1825, and was the son of Ransom and Sarah (Tremain) Riggs. The father, of German [actually English]descendant, was born March 6, 1789, and died January 16, 1863. The mother was a native of New Hampshire [actually born Berkshire Co., MA], born June 30, 1795. Our subject was reared on a farm in Johnson County... he departed this life February 24, 1888. Aug 25, 1859, he was united in marriage with Catherine Vickerman, a daughter of William and Marion (Crichton) Vickerman, whose father was of English [actually German] descent, born April 21, 1796; and the mother of Scotch descent, born November 20, 1795, and departed this life September 12, 1850. This union was blessed with the following children: William V., born August 1, 1860; Sarah M., July 16, 1862; Elizabeth J., May 22, 1864; James A., May 23, 1866; Anna M., September 1, 1868; and Laura S., March 10, 1870. The mother of these children was born January 2, 1831. ...
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15 March 1865 (1863?) Issue of "Sign of the Times" obituary by Brother Beebe.
BURIAL: William Riggs Farm
They had smallpox in Indiana in the 1850's and 1860's in central Indiana. Sarah Tremain Riggs, daughter of Elijah Tremain and Mary Holmes, died when she and her husband drove a wagon, on the winter, to the farm of their son, Samuel Davis Riggs in Pulaski Co., IN. Their daughter-in-law, Grace Greenwood Riggs and three of their grandchildren [Henry, John & Martha] died, Sarah died, and her husband, Ransom Riggs drove, in the winter, Sarah home her coffin in the wagon, buried her and then Ransom Riggs died that week. All in Nov and Dec 1862 and Jan 1863.
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OBITUARY. RANSOM RIGGS [Jr.]
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 2, 1888, Volume XXVIII, Number 36, page 4, column 2
NINEVEH ~ Ransom Riggs [Jr.] died at his home just north of here on last Friday morning at 2 o’clock and was buried the following day at 2 p.m.
We failed to learn the obituary items, but can say that we have known Mr. Riggs for some time and have ever known him to be an honest and upright man in every particular, ever ready and willing to help those who were needy and in fact ever trying to do what he thought was the purpose of man while on earth. While attending the Old Settlers picnic at Trafalgar last September a year ago he fell from a wagon sustaining injuries which in all probability brought him to the grave. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn his loss.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 9, 1888, Volume XXVIII, Number 37, page 1 column 5
Ransom Riggs [Jr.] was born 2 miles east of Greensburg, Decatur county, Indiana, November 7, 1825 and died February 24, 1888, being 82 [62] years three months and 17 days old at the time of his death. His parents Ransom and Sarah Riggs emigrated from Livingston county N.Y., in the year 1823 to Flatrock, Shelby County, Indiana and from Flatrock to two miles east of Greensburg where the said Ransom was born as above stated. He immigrated to Johnson county in the spring of 1836 (in the eleventh year of his age) with his parents to the farm now owned by Nelson Sellers southwest of Franklin and from there to their farm on Timothy Ridge (now owned by H. C. Barnett) where he lived with his parents until the time of his marriage which was to Miss [Catherine] Katy Vickerman, August 25th [23rd], 1859. He then went to housekeeping on his own farm joining his father’s on the south known as the Gillaspy farm where he lived at the time of his death, leaving a wife and six children, two sons and four daughters, the oldest of his daughters is married and has three children. His children are all grown the youngest is 18. He was the fifth [6th] child of his father’s family, which consisted of 5 sons and 4 daughters, also the 5th child to die, his parents and three sisters and one brother having crossed the chilly tide before him, one sister and three brothers surviving him. He was a professed Christian having united with the old school Baptist church at Bethel and was baptized in December 1873 and ever since been an example of that church. As a neighbor but few are his equal ever ready to oblige or lend a helping hand in the time of need. No beggar went from his door unfed. He was strictly temperance and a friend to education, a man of ambition and great firmness, yet always pursuing his course pleasantly and respecting the opinions of others. This made for him a host of friends who feel that their loss is irreparable, and deeply do we sympathize with the bereaved family especially the dear companion of his bosom who will awake tomorrow from a widowed bed to realize anew that her beloved and adored husband who has been her stay and counselor for the last 28 years and almost half has gone from her forever except on fair memory’s page his love is written n’er to be erased while she is permitted to remain this side of the deep still river of death and her sweet consolation is that he has only gone before and will await her coming, as he rests in the shade on the evergreen shore, where the just are made perfect in the eternal adoration of the living God. Mary A. Barnett.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
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'History of Johnson County, Indiana' by Branigin, 1913, page 763, Ninevah Township
Ranson Riggs [Jr.], deceased, was one of the pioneers of Johnson County. He was born November 7[5], 1825, and was the son of Ransom and Sarah (Tremain) Riggs. The father, of German [actually English]descendant, was born March 6, 1789, and died January 16, 1863. The mother was a native of New Hampshire [actually born Berkshire Co., MA], born June 30, 1795. Our subject was reared on a farm in Johnson County... he departed this life February 24, 1888. Aug 25, 1859, he was united in marriage with Catherine Vickerman, a daughter of William and Marion (Crichton) Vickerman, whose father was of English [actually German] descent, born April 21, 1796; and the mother of Scotch descent, born November 20, 1795, and departed this life September 12, 1850. This union was blessed with the following children: William V., born August 1, 1860; Sarah M., July 16, 1862; Elizabeth J., May 22, 1864; James A., May 23, 1866; Anna M., September 1, 1868; and Laura S., March 10, 1870. The mother of these children was born January 2, 1831. ...
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15 March 1865 (1863?) Issue of "Sign of the Times" obituary by Brother Beebe.
BURIAL: William Riggs Farm
They had smallpox in Indiana in the 1850's and 1860's in central Indiana. Sarah Tremain Riggs, daughter of Elijah Tremain and Mary Holmes, died when she and her husband drove a wagon, on the winter, to the farm of their son, Samuel Davis Riggs in Pulaski Co., IN. Their daughter-in-law, Grace Greenwood Riggs and three of their grandchildren [Henry, John & Martha] died, Sarah died, and her husband, Ransom Riggs drove, in the winter, Sarah home her coffin in the wagon, buried her and then Ransom Riggs died that week. All in Nov and Dec 1862 and Jan 1863.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 2, 1888, Volume XXVIII, Number 36, page 4, column 2
NINEVEH ~ Ransom Riggs [Jr.] died at his home just north of here on last Friday morning at 2 o’clock and was buried the following day at 2 p.m.
We failed to learn the obituary items, but can say that we have known Mr. Riggs for some time and have ever known him to be an honest and upright man in every particular, ever ready and willing to help those who were needy and in fact ever trying to do what he thought was the purpose of man while on earth. While attending the Old Settlers picnic at Trafalgar last September a year ago he fell from a wagon sustaining injuries which in all probability brought him to the grave. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn his loss.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 9, 1888, Volume XXVIII, Number 37, page 1 column 5
Ransom Riggs [Jr.] was born 2 miles east of Greensburg, Decatur county, Indiana, November 7, 1825 and died February 24, 1888, being 82 [62] years three months and 17 days old at the time of his death. His parents Ransom and Sarah Riggs emigrated from Livingston county N.Y., in the year 1823 to Flatrock, Shelby County, Indiana and from Flatrock to two miles east of Greensburg where the said Ransom was born as above stated. He immigrated to Johnson county in the spring of 1836 (in the eleventh year of his age) with his parents to the farm now owned by Nelson Sellers southwest of Franklin and from there to their farm on Timothy Ridge (now owned by H. C. Barnett) where he lived with his parents until the time of his marriage which was to Miss [Catherine] Katy Vickerman, August 25th [23rd], 1859. He then went to housekeeping on his own farm joining his father’s on the south known as the Gillaspy farm where he lived at the time of his death, leaving a wife and six children, two sons and four daughters, the oldest of his daughters is married and has three children. His children are all grown the youngest is 18. He was the fifth [6th] child of his father’s family, which consisted of 5 sons and 4 daughters, also the 5th child to die, his parents and three sisters and one brother having crossed the chilly tide before him, one sister and three brothers surviving him. He was a professed Christian having united with the old school Baptist church at Bethel and was baptized in December 1873 and ever since been an example of that church. As a neighbor but few are his equal ever ready to oblige or lend a helping hand in the time of need. No beggar went from his door unfed. He was strictly temperance and a friend to education, a man of ambition and great firmness, yet always pursuing his course pleasantly and respecting the opinions of others. This made for him a host of friends who feel that their loss is irreparable, and deeply do we sympathize with the bereaved family especially the dear companion of his bosom who will awake tomorrow from a widowed bed to realize anew that her beloved and adored husband who has been her stay and counselor for the last 28 years and almost half has gone from her forever except on fair memory’s page his love is written n’er to be erased while she is permitted to remain this side of the deep still river of death and her sweet consolation is that he has only gone before and will await her coming, as he rests in the shade on the evergreen shore, where the just are made perfect in the eternal adoration of the living God. Mary A. Barnett.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
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'History of Johnson County, Indiana' by Branigin, 1913, page 763, Ninevah Township
Ranson Riggs [Jr.], deceased, was one of the pioneers of Johnson County. He was born November 7[5], 1825, and was the son of Ransom and Sarah (Tremain) Riggs. The father, of German [actually English]descendant, was born March 6, 1789, and died January 16, 1863. The mother was a native of New Hampshire [actually born Berkshire Co., MA], born June 30, 1795. Our subject was reared on a farm in Johnson County... he departed this life February 24, 1888. Aug 25, 1859, he was united in marriage with Catherine Vickerman, a daughter of William and Marion (Crichton) Vickerman, whose father was of English [actually German] descent, born April 21, 1796; and the mother of Scotch descent, born November 20, 1795, and departed this life September 12, 1850. This union was blessed with the following children: William V., born August 1, 1860; Sarah M., July 16, 1862; Elizabeth J., May 22, 1864; James A., May 23, 1866; Anna M., September 1, 1868; and Laura S., March 10, 1870. The mother of these children was born January 2, 1831. ...
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15 March 1865 (1863?) Issue of "Sign of the Times" obituary by Brother Beebe.
BURIAL: William Riggs Farm
They had smallpox in Indiana in the 1850's and 1860's in central Indiana. Sarah Tremain Riggs, daughter of Elijah Tremain and Mary Holmes, died when she and her husband drove a wagon, on the winter, to the farm of their son, Samuel Davis Riggs in Pulaski Co., IN. Their daughter-in-law, Grace Greenwood Riggs and three of their grandchildren [Henry, John & Martha] died, Sarah died, and her husband, Ransom Riggs drove, in the winter, Sarah home her coffin in the wagon, buried her and then Ransom Riggs died that week. All in Nov and Dec 1862 and Jan 1863.
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