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Riggs, Talitha C.
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| LAST NAME: Riggs
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FIRST NAME: Talitha
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MIDDLE NAME: C.
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| MAIDEN NAME: Bowman
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AKA 1: O'Neil
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| GENDER: F
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| BORN: 20 Mar 1837
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DIED: 4 Feb 1918
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BURIED: (Hart-Riggs Cemetery)
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| BIRTH PLACE: Kentucky
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| DEATH PLACE: Edmonds, Snohomish Co., Washington
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NOTES:
Name of father William Bowman
Maiden name of mother Sarah Kindred.
1850 OR TERRITORY CENSUS - Calethia/Talethia, age 14, b. Illinois, is enumerated with William, age 50, occupation farmer, b. North Carolina, and Sarah, age 34, b. Kenucky, along with Artemisia, age 15, b. Indiana, Nancy, age 13, b. Missouri, William, age 10, b. Missouri, Sarah A., age 5, b. Oregon Territory, and Elisha, age 1, b. Oregon Territory.
1st MARRIAGE - James A. [Anderson] O'Neal md Tallitha Boman [Bowman] 1 Feb 1855; Elijah Davidson, M.G. Wit: Jane Haley & Margaret Mason.
1860 OR CENSUS - T. O'Neal, age 21, b. Iowa, is enumerated with J. A., age 57, occupation farmer, b. Georgia, along with M.E., female, age 7, b. Oregon, N.E., female, age 4, b. Oregon, and Sarah, age 1, b. Oregon.
1870 OR CENSUS - Talitha O'Neil, age 35, b. Iowa, is enumerated with James O'Neil, age 70, occupation farmer, b. Georgia, along with Emaline, age 16, b. Oregon, Nancy, age 14, b. Oregon, Sarah, age 12, b. Oregon, and Leticia, age 10, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family are David Allen, age 19, b Oregon, Hannah Allen, age 16, b. Oregon, James Morris, age 13, b. Oregon, and Mary Davis, age 13, b. Oregon.
2nd MARRIAGE - T. B. [G.B.] Riggs md Talitha C. O'Neal 21 May 1876 at house of Mrs. O'Neal. MG - J. James. Wit: Wm. and Mary J. Bowmann.
1880 OR CENSUS - Tallitha Riggs, age 43, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with Green B., age 44, occupation farmer, b. Missouri, along with Marion, age 18, farm laborer, b. Washington Territory, Arthur,m age 9, b. Oregon, and [unnamed], male, age 11 m's, b. May [1879] in Oregon.
DISCREPANCY - birthplace given in various records as Iowa, Kentucky, Illinois.
DISCREPANCY - name spelled variously as Talitha, Talithia, Telitha, Talittea.
BIOGRAPHICAL:
FIVE GENERATIONS OF PIONEER FAMILY MEET IN REUNION
A happy renunion of five generations of one pioneer family of Oregon was that recently held in Vancouver, Wash., when Mrs. Talitha Bowman Riggs gathered with her daughter and grandchildren of three generations. Talitha Bowman was born in Kentucky in 1837, and with her parents, moved to Missouri when she was about 2 years old. They crossed the plains by ox team, enduring numerous hardships. On reaching The Dalles they came by flatboat to what is now Portland. The remainder of the Winter was passed in Oregon City. For a time they lived on the Tualatin plains and then moved to Polk County,m where Mrs. [Miss] Bowman was married to Jame O'Neil in 1853 [1855?]. The children born to them were: Emma Deming, now of Elmira, Or.; Nancy Deming, of Seattle; Sarah O'Neil, of Portland; Artanisha Mathews, of Nahcotta, Wash. After the death of James O'Neil, Mrs. O'Neil married G. B. Riggs and one son, Morris J. Riggs, was born. Mr. and Mrs. Riggs and their son, now live at Orchards, Wash. Emma O'Neil, who was at the reunion, was born January 28, 1854, and she married F. F. Deming in 1871. Bernice Deming was born December 3, 1873, and was married to C. W. Inman in 1891. In 1892, Pearl Inman was born, and he married Myrtle Sheffler in 1914. Baby Verre Inman, the fifth of the give generations at the reunion, was born July 30, 1915.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 2 Jul 1916, Sec. 3, pg 12
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DEATH CERTIFICATE:
Washington State Death Records ID #275748 - Talittea [Talitha] C. Riggs, died 4 Feb 1918 in Edmonds, Washington at the age of 80 years. She was the daughter of William Bowman and Sarah Kindred.
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OBITUARY:
PIONEER OF 1844 WHO DIED FEBRUARY 4
Mrs. G. B. Riggs, of Orchards, Washington, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. N. A. Deming, of Edmonds, Washington February 4. She was born in the state of Kentucky, on March 20, 1837, and came across the plains with her parents when she was 7 years old, settling in Oregon City in 1844. Later her parents took up a donation claim on the Little Luckiamute River. In 1853 she was married to James Anderson O'Neil, who later died. In 1876 she was married to Green Berry Riggs of Polk County, Oregon. Mrs. Riggs lived to see her fifth generation. The children who survive her are: Mrs. M. E. Deming, of Elmira, Oregon; Mrs. N. A. Deming, of Edmonds, Washington; Mrs. S. C. O'Neil, of Portland; Mrs. A. E. Mathews, of Nahcotta, Washington; and Morris J. Riggs of Orchards, Washington.
Oregonian 17 FEb 1918
[with photograph]
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INSCRIPTION:
His wife
Telitha C. O'Neil Riggs
1837 - 1918
For more marker photographs and pictures showcasing the restoration work at Hart-Riggs Cemetery, please see: http://polkcemeterysavers.org/Home_Page.php
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SOURCES:
Branigar Survey
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Washington State Digital Archives
Sibley (DAR) 1931
1850 OR TERRITORY CENSUS (Polk Co., FA#37)
Polk County Oregon Marriage Records 1849-1879, pg 8
1860 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Bridgeport, FA #507)
1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Monmouth, FA# 789)
Polk County Oregon Marriage Records 1849-1879, pg 69
1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Bridgeport, ED 106, pg 28D)
1910 WA CENSUS (Clark Co., Fourth Plain, ED 62, sheet 8A)
Oreg 2 Jul 1916, Sec. 3, pg 12
Oreg 17 Feb 1918
MEN of CHAMPOEG: A Record of the Lives of the Pioneers Who Founded the Oregon Government by Caroline C. Dobbs, Portland, Or: Metropolitan Press, 1932.
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