If anyone has other Riggs/Whetzler photos they would like to add to this
collection please email them to jerry@perardua.net, thanks!
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Portrait of my Great Great Grandfather Silas S. Riggs
photo from Devon Guthery
Portrait of my Great Great Great Grandfather Whetzler
Father of Effie C. ( Whetzler ) Riggs
photo from Devon Guthery
My Great Great Grandfather Silas S. Riggs at age 86, taken about 1938
photo from Devon Guthery
Silas S. Riggs and his children, 1938
Somora Effie ( Riggs ) Hanna ( My Great Grandmother )
Charles Edgar Riggs
Bertha L. ( Riggs ) Guthery
Alain B. ( Riggs ) Guthery
photo from Devon Guthery
My Great Great Grandfather Silas S. Riggs' headstone at the Friendship cemetery
outside of Minco Oklahoma.
My Great Great Great Grandmother Mary ( ? ) Whetzler's headstone at the Friendship
cemetery outside of Minco Oklahoma.
Side view of my Great Great Great Grandmother ( Phoebe Bolen Harper) Riggs's headstone at the
Yeager Cemetery in Cowley County KS.
Front view of my Great Great Great Grandmother ( Phoebe Bolen Harper) Riggs's headstone at the
Yeager Cemetery in Cowley County KS.
Her obituary from the SUMNER COUNTY STAR Volume V, Wellington, KS. Wed. July 19, 1899
"Mrs. Phoebe B. Riggs, aged 79 years, died last night at the home of her son, H.
H. Riggs, in Greene Township. The funeral sermon will be preached tomorrow at
Yeager Chapel in Valverde township and interment be made in the Yeager grave
yard."