Rebekah Hand Riggs
Birth: Dec. 15, 1716
Orange
Essex County
New Jersey, USA
Death: May 16, 1785
Morristown
Morris County
New Jersey, USA
Rebekah Hand married Gideon Riggs (1713-1786) about 1742 in New Jersey.
Children:
• Joseph (1743-1814) •
• Martha (1744-1777)
• Abigail (Riggs) Prudden (1747-1805)
• Phoebe (Riggs) Tarbell (1749-1781)
• Gideon (1753-1830)
• Josiah (1755-1831)
• Aaron (1756-1826)
• Rachel (Riggs) Wood (1759-__)
Inscription:
In Memory of
Rebeckah Wife
of Gideon Riggs
who died May
Ye 16th 1785. In ye
69th Year of her
age
All you that reads this tomb
And studies it a wright
Shall flourish like a plant
That’s waterd day & night
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