RIGGS FAMILY EDUCATION
RIGGS FAMILY EDUCATION
Education was important to Brannick and Mary Elizabeth Riggs. They both could read and write and felt it was important that their children receive what education could be provided for them. Mary Elizabeth’s father was a teacher by profession.
When the family lived in Bandera County Texas, Rhoda Elizabeth, Margaret Ann, William C., John Roland, children of John and Jane Riggs, who had been killed by the Indians, and Brannick and Mary Elizabeth’s children, T.J., Rhoda and William M. all attended the local school.
After the family moved to Las Animas County, Colorado, a school house was built and they started a school at home for all the children in the area. It didn’t matter how old you were, you attended classes when-ever you could.
When the Home ranch was established near the mouth of Pinery Canyon of the Chiricahua Mountains in Cochise County, the closest school was in Dos Cabezas, about 15 miles from Home Ranch. Rhoda, William, Martha and Brannick B attended that school until a one room school house was built in the yard near the house and a teacher was hired for the children of the family. Again, it didn’t matter how old you were, you attended classes when-ever you could.
As the children reached the point that they needed to go elsewhere to complete their education arrangements were made. Several of them went to schools in California for a time. Four of the boys (Brannick Benjamin Riggs, William Monroe Riggs, James Jay Riggs and John Casey Riggs); two grandsons (Edward Murray Riggs and Charles Pinkney Riggs); and two girls (Mary Frances Riggs and Lucy Elizabeth Riggs) went to school at Valparaiso Normal in Valparaiso, Indiana. Many of the younger children attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.
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RIGGS FAMILY SCHOOLS & HISTORY
THE FOLLOWING WERE SCHOOLS BUILT BY THE RIGGS FAMILY:
Bandera School (Bandera County, Texas)
Chicosa Canyon School (Las Animas County, Colorado)
Home Ranch School (Cochise County, Arizona) 188X - 1900
El Dorado School (Cochise County, Arizona) 1900 - 1965
RIGGS FAMILY SCHOOLS & HISTORY
TEACHERS FOR THE RIGGS FAMILY
The teachers in Bandera County, Texas were the teachers hired by the local people. In Colorado there were two teachers, a Mr. Steven D. Stout, an older gentleman that taught only one year and a Mr. James William Wolf. Before the Riggs family left Colorado, Mr. Wolf and Rhoda became engaged. They were to be married after he and his brother arrived in Arizona. However, Mr. Wolf disappeared under unknown circumstances on his trip to Arizona. The first teacher at the Home Ranch school in Arizona was T.B. Stark. See additional teachers by clicking on the link below. Some of the teachers became members of the family through marriage.
TEACHERS / MEMBERS OF THE RIGGS FAMILY
This section of the website will list and describe Brannick Riggs Family members who became teachers. It will include teachers who became Brannick Riggs Family members by marriage as well.
TEACHERS / MEMBERS OF THE RIGGS FAMILY
SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS
Riggs Family members served on school boards including El Dorado School District, Willcox School District and Pearce School District.
COLLEGE OR TRADE SCHOOL
Some have attended a Junior College, others a University or a Trade School. Some have found education in their chosen field in the Military, on the job training and some have been trained at home in the family business.
COLLEGE OR TRADE SCHOOL