Malissa was born about 1843. She passed away after 1880.
Sources
Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: State of North Carolina. An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC, USA: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977. Malissa Shelton and Barnett Riggs, bond 13 Feb 1864, marriage 14 Feb 1864, Stokes County, image 007168, record #02 254.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCX5-9S9 : 14 January 2022), Barnette Riggs and wife Milissa household, Peters Creek Township, Stokes, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district 247, sheet 6B , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm; family 55, dwelling 52, lines 39-45.
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