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Peter Earnest Riggs

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Peter Earnest Riggs

Birth
Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
19 Feb 1919 (aged 78)
Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia, USA
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Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Private Co F 85th Pennsylvania Infantry


Mr. Peter Riggs died Tuesday afternoon at his home on Cypress Avenue after a long illness due to the infirmities of old age. He was born August 13, 1840, being in his

79th year. He was united in marriage to Rebecca J. Plants on April 12, 1863 and to this union was born eleven children, nine girls and two boys, four of this number preceded him to the better world. Those surviving are his wife, Mrs. Rachel J. Fisher, Mrs. Alice Wright, S. M. Riggs, and J. M. Riggs of this city, and Mrs. N. B. Griffith of Pleasant Valley, Mrs. George Loar of New Freeport, Pa., and Mrs. A. L. Yoder of Murdocksville, Pa., beside he leaves five brothers and three sisters, twenty-six grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren to morn his loss. He united with the Methodist Protestant Church in 1858 of which he was a consistent member until the day of his death. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1861 and belonged to Company F. 85th Pa. Inf. He fought in many hard battles among the more important ones were the battles at Fair Oaks and the Seven Days battle at Richmond. Funeral services will be held in Calvary M. E. Church conducted by Rev. S. B. Hart, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The comrades of the Civil war will attend in a body. Interment will be made in Mount Rose.

Private Co F 85th Pennsylvania Infantry


Mr. Peter Riggs died Tuesday afternoon at his home on Cypress Avenue after a long illness due to the infirmities of old age. He was born August 13, 1840, being in his

79th year. He was united in marriage to Rebecca J. Plants on April 12, 1863 and to this union was born eleven children, nine girls and two boys, four of this number preceded him to the better world. Those surviving are his wife, Mrs. Rachel J. Fisher, Mrs. Alice Wright, S. M. Riggs, and J. M. Riggs of this city, and Mrs. N. B. Griffith of Pleasant Valley, Mrs. George Loar of New Freeport, Pa., and Mrs. A. L. Yoder of Murdocksville, Pa., beside he leaves five brothers and three sisters, twenty-six grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren to morn his loss. He united with the Methodist Protestant Church in 1858 of which he was a consistent member until the day of his death. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1861 and belonged to Company F. 85th Pa. Inf. He fought in many hard battles among the more important ones were the battles at Fair Oaks and the Seven Days battle at Richmond. Funeral services will be held in Calvary M. E. Church conducted by Rev. S. B. Hart, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The comrades of the Civil war will attend in a body. Interment will be made in Mount Rose.

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