Riggs, Margaret LAST: Riggs FIRST: Margaret MID:  GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Johnson TITLE:  BORN: 16 Sep 1812 DIED: 10 Dec 1880 BURIED:  (Taylor Cemetery) OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  New York DEATH PLACE: Oregon NOTES:  1st MARRIAGE - to James Taylor 1850 MI CENSUS - Margaret Taylor, age 35, b. New York, is enumerated with James, age 56, occupation blacksmith, b. Maine, along with Phebe A., age 20, b. New York, Esther, age 19, b. New York, Anderson, age 12, b. Michigan, Jno., age 9, b. Michigan, and James, age 7. b. Michigan. Also enumerated with the family are Louisa Holmes, age 12, b. New York, Arthur Johnson, age 80, b. Ireland, Jonathan Macknite, age 22, occupation farmer, b. Delaware, William Macknite, age 20, occupation farmer, b. Delaware, and Howell Buchingham, age 23,. occupation blacksmith, b. Delaware. 1860 OR CENSUS - Margaret Taylor, age 47, b. New York, is enumerated with A., age 22, b. Michigan, Jno., age 18, b. Michigan, and Jas., age  16, b. Michigan.  2nd MARRIAGE - "James B. Riggs & Margaret Taylor, m 10 Jun 1860; B. Hayden, Judge.  Wit: Charles E. Moore & Jacob T. Leounard pg 11". 1870 OR CENSUS - James Riggs, age 68, occupation farmer, b. New York, is enumerated with wife Margaret, age 58, b. Michigan. Also enumerated in the home is John Taylor, age 28, occupation farmer, b. Michigan. [Note - her second husband, James Berry Riggs is buried with his first wife Nancy C. (Anderson) Riggs, at Salt Creek Cemetery in Polk Co., Oregon] OBITUARY:  INSCRIPTION:  Margaret Riggs Died Dec. 10, 1880 Aged 68 Y's 2 M's 24 D's SOURCES:  Saucy Survey & Photographs Branigar Survey 1850 MI CENSUS (Cass Co., Milton, FA #21) 1860 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, FA#707) Polk County Marriage Records, 1849-1879, pg 19 1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Dallas, FA #43) CONTACTS:  ROW:    IMAGES: