Died of Pneumonia in France
NOT LISTED ON THE MARSHALL COUNTY 'MILITARY SERVICE DEAD' MEMORIAL.
Researched & Written by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.
Lawrence Cullen Riggs
West Virginia University Yearbook, 1919
LAWRENCE CULLEN RIGGS - U. S. Army Private, Battery C 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 5th Division. Died of Pneumonia September 6, 1918 in France. Buried at Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, France, Plot A Row 44 Grave 37. According to his Draft Registration, he was born at Woodland(s), Marshall County on April 12, 1890. At that time, he was employed in Glen Easton, Marshall County, by James Furgeson [sic], and worked at farming. His home address was Morgantown, Monongalia County. He is found in the 1919 yearbook for West Virginia University but he was deceased by the time it was published. - His father was Robert A. Riggs, a teacher, born in Marshall County, and his mother was Mary Ann Ferguson. In 1900, the family lived in Mason County, at which time Lawrence C. was 10, and he had two younger sisters, Emily and Frances. In 1910, the family was living in Wellsburg, Brooke County, where Robert A. was a principal in a public school. Mrs. Riggs died in 1926 in Ohio County. Robert died in Raleigh County in 1945.