Deseret News Obituary 16 Jun 1869 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
In Provo City on the 8th ult., Nathaniel Riggs, of neuralgia of the bowels. Deceased was born at Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky August 5, 1797. He was baptized Jan 17 1834 in Monroe County, Missouri and soon after made a visit to Kirtland, Ohio where he met with the Prophet Joseph, and made arrangements to go up to Jackson County. He then returned home and when the Camp of Zion came along he joined it, on Salt River, Miss. He accompanied the Camp to Clay County, and afterwards shared with it the trials of the return journey, during which, through exposure and privation, he contracted diseases which he carried to his grave. He came with the church from Missouri and settled in Nauvoo from thence to the Bluffs in Iowa and from the latter place to Salt Lake City in 1849. He moved to Provo City in 1851. He was taken sick December 1, 1868, and has endured a great deal of pain and misery for the last five months. He went to sleep rejoicing in the new and everlasting covenant.
In Provo City on the 8th ult., Nathaniel Riggs, of neuralgia of the bowels. Deceased was born at Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky August 5, 1797. He was baptized Jan 17 1834 in Monroe County, Missouri and soon after made a visit to Kirtland, Ohio where he met with the Prophet Joseph, and made arrangements to go up to Jackson County. He then returned home and when the Camp of Zion came along he joined it, on Salt River, Miss. He accompanied the Camp to Clay County, and afterwards shared with it the trials of the return journey, during which, through exposure and privation, he contracted diseases which he carried to his grave. He came with the church from Missouri and settled in Nauvoo from thence to the Bluffs in Iowa and from the latter place to Salt Lake City in 1849. He moved to Provo City in 1851. He was taken sick December 1, 1868, and has endured a great deal of pain and misery for the last five months. He went to sleep rejoicing in the new and everlasting covenant.
Deseret News Obituary 16 Jun 1869 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
In Provo City on the 8th ult., Nathaniel Riggs, of neuralgia of the bowels. Deceased was born at Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky August 5, 1797. He was baptized Jan 17 1834 in Monroe County, Missouri and soon after made a visit to Kirtland, Ohio where he met with the Prophet Joseph, and made arrangements to go up to Jackson County. He then returned home and when the Camp of Zion came along he joined it, on Salt River, Miss. He accompanied the Camp to Clay County, and afterwards shared with it the trials of the return journey, during which, through exposure and privation, he contracted diseases which he carried to his grave. He came with the church from Missouri and settled in Nauvoo from thence to the Bluffs in Iowa and from the latter place to Salt Lake City in 1849. He moved to Provo City in 1851. He was taken sick December 1, 1868, and has endured a great deal of pain and misery for the last five months. He went to sleep rejoicing in the new and everlasting covenant.
In Provo City on the 8th ult., Nathaniel Riggs, of neuralgia of the bowels. Deceased was born at Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky August 5, 1797. He was baptized Jan 17 1834 in Monroe County, Missouri and soon after made a visit to Kirtland, Ohio where he met with the Prophet Joseph, and made arrangements to go up to Jackson County. He then returned home and when the Camp of Zion came along he joined it, on Salt River, Miss. He accompanied the Camp to Clay County, and afterwards shared with it the trials of the return journey, during which, through exposure and privation, he contracted diseases which he carried to his grave. He came with the church from Missouri and settled in Nauvoo from thence to the Bluffs in Iowa and from the latter place to Salt Lake City in 1849. He moved to Provo City in 1851. He was taken sick December 1, 1868, and has endured a great deal of pain and misery for the last five months. He went to sleep rejoicing in the new and everlasting covenant.
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