William Hubert Riggs (1839 - 1918)

Born 26 Feb 1839 in Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Martha Bates (Tomlinson) Riggs — married about 1861 in Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States

Died 1918 at about age 78 in Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States

Biography

William Hubert RIGGS ^{[1][2][3][4][5]} was born ^[6] 26 Feb 1839 in Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States and was christened ^[7] 31 May 1868 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States. He died ^[8] 1918 and was buried ^[9] in Union Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States. William married Martha Bates TOMLINSON.

Sources

1. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 114. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. " ... This place is known as the Osborn homestead. The north portion of the house was built by Harvey Osborn about the year 1820. ... The place was afterwards sold to Edwin Alling and some time in the year 1909 the place was sold to Charles Baldwin of Seymour, who occupied it only a short time." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/114.html.
2. ↑ 1850 Oxford Census.
3. ↑ 1860 Orange Census. "Farmer." Living at the home of John R & Lucy Johnson.
4. ↑ 1870 Oxford Census. "Farmer."
5. ↑ 1900 Ansonia Census. "Day Laborer."
6. ↑ Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 544.
7. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 117. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/117.html.
8. ↑ 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, Arthur Walker, Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 27. http://oxfordpast.net/uncemscan27.html.
9. ↑ 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour, p. 27. http://oxfordpast.net/uncemscan27.html.

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