DIRECTIONS: Riggs Cemetery, Union District, Pleasants County WV on Ruttencutter property. From the intersection of State Route 2 and State Route 16, go north on State Route 2 about 1.2 miles to the second house on the right. (Known as the Ruttencutter property in 6/2000). The Cemetery is to the right of the house just above a pond as viewed from the road. This is a one grave plot containing a marker for Isaac Riggs. The marker is badly erroded and only the name can be read. The following data is from the Riggs genealogical data base.

Isaac Riggs
Son of Bazel and Mary Roby Riggs

	b.	1802, Grandview, Washington Co., Ohio

	d.	16 November 1861 [of gunshot wound, death certificate gave
age as 62, son of Brazil and Mary Riggs, and Nancy, widow.]

Married:  Nancy LaRue  [October 1831-1833]

Children:

*	1)	Elton Roby Riggs	b. 11 June 1834	d.  2 June 1902

	2)	Irving Shelby Riggs	b.	1838	d.      c. 1870

*	3)	Arthur Perry Riggs	b.  7 Nov. 1839	d. 26 July 1896

*	4)	George Hale Riggs	b. 13 Sep. 1841	d.	 1923

*	5)	Stephen Monroe Riggs	b. 18 Dec. 1843	d. 24 Sep. 1926

Notes:

	1)	Isaac Riggs:

		a)	35.   Riggs, Isaac W M 1861 Pleasants Co. Gunshot wound
62 Bazel & Mary b Virginia spouse: Nancy Riggs rept by Nancy Riggs, wife.
Register of Deaths 1, Pleasants Co.  LDS Microfilm Roll #0867993

	2)	Nancy LaRue, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Reynolds LaRue,
was b. 1803, Virginia, d. 1872, Missouri, of malaria.
	3)	Irving Shelby Riggs:

		a)	RIGGS, Irvin Shelby (M).  B: 1838 Mc Kim Dist, , Tyler, VA
Fa.: Isaac RIGGS  Mo.: Nancy LA RUE

	4)	Note that the LDS IGIndex has "RIGGS, Anne B (F) B: 1859, Rock Haven,
Tyler, VA, Fa.: Isaac RIGGS, Mo.: Nancy LA RUE". Nancy LaRue Riggs was b. 1803,
thus would have been 56 years old when Anne B. was born. Rock Haven is unknown,
but there is Raven Rock, now in Pleasants Co., then part of Tyler Co. where some
Riggses lived. No Anne B. was listed in the family of Isaac Riggs in 1860 Census 
		a)	RIGGS, Anne B (F)......   B: 1859 Rock Haven, , Tyler, VA
Fa.: Isaac RIGGS  Mo.: Nancy LA RUE 

	5)	According to Census, all children were b. in Virginia.

	6)	Pemberton History of Pleasants County [Subscribers to] new county
include Isaac Rigg. Isaac Riggs was also on the first Grand Jury of Pleasants
Co., July 1851. 

	7)	1840 Census, Tyler Co. VA: Isaac Riggs

	8)	1850 Census, Tyler Co. VA: 619/613, pp 731-732
		Isaac Riggs 49 M  Farmer RE $5,000 VA
		Nancy 47 F VA
		Roby 15 M VA attended school within year
		Shelly 13 M VA attended school within year 
		Arthur 11 M VA attended school within year
		George 9 M VA attended school within year
		James 6 M VA attended school within year
		Samantha Chambers 14 F VA attended school within year
	9)	1860 Census, Post Office, St. Marys, Pleasants Co., VA p. 655 409/409
		Isaac Riggs 59 M Farmer 7405/1054 VA
		Nancy 57 F VA
		Elton 25 M VA
		Irving S. 23 M VA Attended School within the Year
		Arthur P. 20 M VA Attended School within the Year
		George H. 16 M VA Attended School within the Year
		Stephenson M. 16 M VA
		B. M. Biddle 18 M laborer VA
		Melissa A. Samberson 6 F VA
		W. E. Samberson 4 M VA

You will find a write up on Nancy LaRue Riggs in the "Pleasants County History to 1980" which identifies this cemetery.