Hannah Riggs

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Wife Hannah Riggs ¹

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         Father: Rev. Cyrus Riggs (1774-1849) 2
         Mother: Mary Ross (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Wife - Hannah Riggs

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She was for a long time a missionary to the Indians. She was one of the com­pany of missionaries that went to labor amongst the Ottowas, on the Maumee River. Of this company was Samuel Tait, pas­tor of the churches of Cool Spring, Salem, and Mercer, and fa­mous in his day for missionary labor. In this missionary work did this devoted female labor, suffering hardships and privations of various kinds; now from cold, and now from a scarcity of pro­visions, and again from repeated attacks of fever and ague, until the mission was broken up, eleven years after its establishment. This mission was inaugurated by the Synod of Pittsburg, but was afterwards transferred to the American Board of Missions. [HVC 1879, 188]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 188.

2 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 187.