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John Riggs

Birth
Death
20 Dec 1850 (aged 55–56)
Burial
Rome, Perry County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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56y in 1850 Perry County IN Census

JOHN RIGGS - Served in Captain David Robb's Mounted Militia and Captain Samuel Connor's 1st Regiment Indiana Militia. Fought in the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Indiana
1812 Burials in the State of Indiana
JOHN RIGGS
D 12/20/1850
CAPT ROBB MTD RIFLES
RIGGS CEMETERY
TOBIN TWN
PERRY COUNTY
FAMILY MARKER
HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY, GOODSPEED P585
INDIANA 1812 SOLDIERS, CHARLES FRANKLIN, P45

In a company raised by Captain David Robb at Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County,Kentucky, were several men probably then and certainly afterward residents of Perry County,although accredited to Kentucky; John Crist, Alexander Cunningham, James De Jarnett, Philip Jenkins, John Riggs and William Weatherholt. The company lost several men at Tippecanoe, fighting in the Kentucky regiment commanded by a Colonel Allen, in whose regiment was also a company commanded by Captain Joseph Allen. It served three months, and among the privates mustered out at Shakertown were Philip Miller, Peter Miller and Benjamin Smith, who lived at a later date in Perry County.
Perry County: A History by Thomas James De la Hunt, 1916
56y in 1850 Perry County IN Census

JOHN RIGGS - Served in Captain David Robb's Mounted Militia and Captain Samuel Connor's 1st Regiment Indiana Militia. Fought in the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Indiana
1812 Burials in the State of Indiana
JOHN RIGGS
D 12/20/1850
CAPT ROBB MTD RIFLES
RIGGS CEMETERY
TOBIN TWN
PERRY COUNTY
FAMILY MARKER
HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY, GOODSPEED P585
INDIANA 1812 SOLDIERS, CHARLES FRANKLIN, P45

In a company raised by Captain David Robb at Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County,Kentucky, were several men probably then and certainly afterward residents of Perry County,although accredited to Kentucky; John Crist, Alexander Cunningham, James De Jarnett, Philip Jenkins, John Riggs and William Weatherholt. The company lost several men at Tippecanoe, fighting in the Kentucky regiment commanded by a Colonel Allen, in whose regiment was also a company commanded by Captain Joseph Allen. It served three months, and among the privates mustered out at Shakertown were Philip Miller, Peter Miller and Benjamin Smith, who lived at a later date in Perry County.
Perry County: A History by Thomas James De la Hunt, 1916

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