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From: "Betty W." <>
Subject: Re: [ORPHANAGES] Orphanage at Morgan's Point, Harris county, Texas,USA, during the late 1800s.
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:27:20 -0700 (PDT)
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I just don't know how to thank you. That is just about the only piece of the puzzle that I had not been able to put together and prove, regarding my grandfather. I have been able to trace his branch of the family back to 1597in Nazeing, Essex, UK. when Edward Riggs was born.== (In 1617 he married Elizabeth Holmes b. 1600) Now if I can luck into finding my great grandmother's family.I will have a treasure trove to be sure. My grandfather's mother Sarah Calvert Jacinto Penn and her family. I have found my great grandparents (Sarah Jacinto Penn & her husband Samuel M. Riggs, and their oldest child Sarah Harriette) in the 1860 census in Lynchburg, Texas, USA. and in the Texas marriage collection of 1814 to 1909. I am sure it was them in both places because the ages and birth places match what was written in the old family Bible that we have and the marriage date of February 26, 1857 matched the Bible also. All I know for sure about Sarah Jacinto's family is that she
had a much younger brother named David Penn who married a woman named Clara. When Samuel was five or six David and Clara had a son named Edward who grew up and married a woman named Molly. My "Nannie" (baby talk for Aunty) says they are all burried in the Penn family cemetery which was located just across the wagon road from the house where she grew up just outside of Crosby not too far from GooseCreek, Texas about one to three miles from the San Jacinto River.
Oh I am just rattling on and I know probably boring you to tears. But I do thank you and I will plug into the 1880 census and fint the page ect. so that I can document that fact. Thank you again very very much..
Smile! GOD loves you....and So do I..Love ya,from: Betty
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