Ancestry of
Gideon Riggs

(1790–1871)

Gideon Riggs

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • David Riggs 
  • Mother:
  • Miriam Wright   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Mar 1790 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stokes County, North Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Nov 1871 
  • Death Location:
  • Williamson County, Tennessee 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Riggs Cross Roads Cemetery, Williamson County, Tennessee 
  • Notes: 

  • Plaque at the entrance of Riggs Cross Roads Cemetery reads as follows:

    In Memory of Gideon Riggs 1790 - 1871

    and his wives

    Mary Reynolds 1798-1825
    Sophia Campbell 1801-1836
    Catherine F. Holden 1815-1865

    All their graves are here except Catherine F. Holden's which is in Arkansas. His farm included approximately 1000 acres hereabouts, with brick house about 100 ft. northwest of here.

    Erected 1969 by his descendants

• Marriages for Gideon Riggs

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Reynolds
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Mar 1816
  • Marriage Location:
  • Williamson County, Tennessee

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  • Spouse:
  • Sophia Campbell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Dec 1828
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bedford County, Tennessee

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  • Spouse:
  • Catharine F. Holden
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 18 Jun 1835

• Sources for Gideon Riggs

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A096707.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/17/2018).
  • ³ History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch . . ., Nashville: The Goodspeed Publishing Co. (1886), 1004, gives Gideon's death year as 1879.
  • ⁴ Wallace, John H., Genealogy of the Riggs Family: With a Number of Cognate Branches Descended from the Original Edward . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Published by the Author (1901), 30.