Lucy C. Kerr Riggs
Birth: May 15, 1813
Youngstown
Mahoning County
Ohio, USA
Death: Aug. 15, 1891
Bakersfield
Kern County
California, USA
Lucy C. Kerr was the daughter of Nancy Braden (1778-1831) and Joseph Kerr (1781-1837). Both parents were born and died in Pennsylvania.
She married Samuel Tait Riggs (1808-1871) about 1833 in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Children:
• Ann Marie (1834-1896)
• Cephas Calvin (1836-after 1865)
• Amanda Jane (1838-1849)
• Cyrus Henry (1840-1843)
• Naomi Elizabeth (1841-1872) •
• Achsah Coulter (1843-1919)
• Electa Caroline (1850-1853)
The records of the Scrubgrass Presbyterian Church, Venango County, Pennsylvania, mention Samuel as an elder from 1842 through 1847.
In 1857, they removed briefly to Missouri and then in 1858 on to Pawnee Creek, near Hiattville, Bourbon County, Kansas where they settled on the N.W. 1/4, Section 12, Township 27, Range 23. Lucy filed for ownership under the Treaty of the United States with the Cherokee Nation of Indians on October 17, 1864. On October 17, 1867 she was granted a patent for 160 acres for the sum of $320 (see photo). The fact that Lucy considered herself, and was considered by one personally acquainted with her to be "the head of a family" suggests that Samuel must have suffered some sort of disability sometime after their move to Kansas.
After Samuel Tait Riggs died in 1871, she married Daniel James (1814-1893) on May 20, 1879 at Anna, Pawnee Station, Bourbon County, Kansas. No issue.
It seems that Daniel James and Lucy separated prior to 1884, as there is no mention of him being with Lucy when she removed to Bakersfield, California to live with her granddaughter, Rosa Lea (Williams) Yancey, in 1884. Daniel died in 1893 and is buried in Haddam, Kansas.
Lucy C. (Kerr) Riggs James died at the home of her granddaughter, Rosa Lea (Williams) Yancey, in Bakersfield, California.
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