Pittsburgh Gazette, Jan. 23, 1893
Miss Emma Catherine Riggs died at the residence of her father in Library on
Friday evening Jan. 20, 1893 after a long illness. Miss Riggs was 33 years of
age and was well known to many Pittsburgh people as for the past six years she
has been a stenographer for one of the largest of the Smithfield Street
firms. Consumption was the immediate cause of death & she has been in failing
health for some time & never seemed to have fully recovered from the effects
of the death of her favorite brother, Elmer, some 4 years ago. She was always
noted for her kind & Christianlike disposition & her loss will be keenly
felt. Miss Riggs was a niece of the Drs. Riggs of the South Side. Her
remains will be interred in the churchyard of the Peters Creek Baptist Church
at Library today, she having been a member of that congregation for almost 20
years.
Pittsburgh Gazette, Jan. 23, 1893
Miss Emma Catherine Riggs died at the residence of her father in Library on
Friday evening Jan. 20, 1893 after a long illness. Miss Riggs was 33 years of
age and was well known to many Pittsburgh people as for the past six years she
has been a stenographer for one of the largest of the Smithfield Street
firms. Consumption was the immediate cause of death & she has been in failing
health for some time & never seemed to have fully recovered from the effects
of the death of her favorite brother, Elmer, some 4 years ago. She was always
noted for her kind & Christianlike disposition & her loss will be keenly
felt. Miss Riggs was a niece of the Drs. Riggs of the South Side. Her
remains will be interred in the churchyard of the Peters Creek Baptist Church
at Library today, she having been a member of that congregation for almost 20
years.
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