Genealogy

Pedigree of:
Urial Driggs
1780-1846

Dorothy Mary
JONES
c1719-___?

Benjamin
GRAVES
1717-1770

Elizabeth
STRICKLAND
1721-a1760

Daniel
DRIGGS
1721-1798

Ruth
GRAVES
c1743-1848 = Daniel
DRIGGS
1741-1800

Urial
DRIGGS
1780-1846

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Urial Driggs was born on Apr 29, 1780, in Watertown CT; he died Sep 14, 1846, in Lee County IA, and is buried there.

m. Hannah Ford (1812-1896), on Oct 26, 1800, at Farmington CT . She was born on May 17, 1780 at Weathersford CT, daughter of Thomas Ford and Hannah Rowlandson. Urial and Hannah had 15 children:
- Matilda Driggs; b. 1797, Hartford CT.
- Maria Driggs; b. 1799, Hartford.
- Jeremiah Driggs; b. 1801, Hartford.
- Hezekiah Driggs; b. 1703, Hartford CT.
- Dency Driggs; b. 1705, Hartford CT.
- Daniel Driggs; b. Jan 30, 1807; d. Jul 31, 1895.
- Chloe Driggs; b. Dec 2, 1810, at Ashtabula OH.
- Ruth Driggs.
- Shadrach Ford Driggs (1813-1898).
  - m1. Elizabeth White (1812-1896)
  - m2. Celia (Harvey) Taylor (1819-___?)
- Asel S. Driggs; b. Feb 14, 1815, at Ashtabula OH.
- Hannah Driggs.
- Thomas Driggs.
- Samuel Driggs; b. Feb 17, 1820; d. Dec 3 1860.
- Starling G. Driggs; b. Feb 12 1821; d. Jan 14, 1880
- Lorenzo Dow Driggs; b.Mar 14, 1822.

Brief Biography

Urial Driggs was born on Apr 29, 1780, probably in Watertown CT. He died on Sep 14, 1846 in Lee County, Iowa. He was among a group of pioneering members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) who migrated westward toward a "promised land" that Urial never reached.

References:

Driggs - History of an American Family, Vols. 1 and 2, published by the Driggs Family Association, 1971.

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