Herbert McClellan Riggle and Minnie Mae Shellhammer

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Husband Herbert McClellan Riggle ¹

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           Born: 18 Feb 1872 - Cochran's Mills, Burrell Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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           Died: 7 Oct 1952 1
         Buried:  - I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Akron, Fulton Co, IN

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         Father: George Riggle (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Ashbaugh (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1892 - Armstrong Co, PA 1

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Wife Minnie Mae Shellhammer ¹

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           Born: 21 Jan 1874 - Mateer, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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           Died: 24 Apr 1968 1
         Buried:  - I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Akron, Fulton Co, IN

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         Father: Jacob B. Shellhammer (1847-1918) 1
         Mother: Mary Ann Beck (1844-1923) 1

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Herbert McClellan Riggle

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Soon after their marriage, he and his wife moved to Bellingham, Washington, where he worked in a logging camp as his father had done, and in which line of work his father was engaged when he was killed. About this time Herbert felt the call to preach, and from 1893 until his retirement in 1946, he was a minister of the Church of God, with headquarters in Anderson, Indiana. Minnie was also an ordained preacher. For a while they were connected with the "Floating Bethel," a boat which was used as a chapel; as it floated down the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico, they held evangelistic services on both sides of the river as they traveled. In 1912 Herbert held a revival meeting in Akron, Indiana, returning two years later to establish the Akron Church of God. The Riggles were at the Akron church until 1924 except for the period between 1920 and 1923, when they were missionaries in Syria. According to a granddaughter, Freda Ault.

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General Notes: Wife - Minnie Mae Shellhammer

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"Grandma Riggle was a very active, very busy lady, always working. After Grandpa died, she moved back to Akron from Rochester (Indiana). She always spaded her garden; she couldn't wait for her son or son-in-law to do it. She had a broken leg when she was 65 or 70. She canned tomatoes, used an old chair without a back to scoot her leg in the cast around on, and she also scrubbed the floors that way. She sat at sewing machine and sewed for the missions.
"Grandma must have been 75, 80, or older when she informed my Aunt Zelda that she and Uncle Charlie needed to paint their house. Aunt Zelda agreed but stated that neither of them would go up on the ladder to paint the gable of the tall two-story house. Grandma told them to get the paint, that she would see that it got done. They got the paint. Grandma put on Grandpa's old bib overalls and went up on the ladder and painted the gable while Grandpa and Aunt Zelda and Uncle Charlie painted the lower half of the house.
"The flat roof over the kitchen had a leak. My mother engaged a carpenter to come to fix it. He had a ladder beside the house and was on the roof checking for the leak. He almost fainted when Grandma startled him when she said, "Over here is the place where it leaks!" And she was standing on the roof, pointing out the place to him. She was 90 years old at that time.
"One day she called my mother, telling her she was distressed because she did not have enough money in her checking account to pay her oil bill. My mother told her to go to the bank and take money from her savings and put it in her checking account so she would have plenty to pay all of her bills. Grandma argued that she could not do that. She was about 92 at that time and went uptown every day for her mail and groceries, etc. My mother asked Grandma why she could not do it, and Grandma replies, "Well, Ola, if I'm going to live forever, and it looks like I am, I will need all the money I have for my old age!" That was my very wonderful grandmother."

1 Marlin A. Field, Peter Smail of Pennsylvania & His Descendants (Ozark, MO: Dogwood Printing, Sept., 1990), Pg 99.