William Rigsby Genealogy

Record modified: 2014-07-18

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	/	George Rigsby	\|
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William Perry Rigsby	\|
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	\	Mary Perry	\|
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Born: about 1847-00-00 Alabama USA
Died: (unknown)

Marriages:
1. Sophronia E Turner
2. about 1872-00-00 Martha Emma Ellington
3. about 1880-00-00 Julia Irene Scarborough

Children of William Rigsby and Sophronia Turner:

John W Rigsby	b. 1867-04-00
Margaret E Rigsby	b. about 1870-00-00

Children of William Rigsby and Martha Ellington:

Lamar Singleton Rigsby

b. about 1875-00-00

Children of William Rigsby and Julia Scarborough:

Ernest W Rigsby	b. 1881-07-00
May M Rigsby	b. 1882-10-00
Grover Cleveland Rigsby	b. 1885-04-03 d. 1948-02-13
Earl Perry Rigsby	b. 1887-11-17 d. 1976-06-16
Yasso? L Rigsby	b. 1889-11-00
Clark Louis Rigsby	b. 1892-05-07
Elizabeth B Rigsby	b. 1894-08-00
Herbert H Rigsby	b. 1899-01-00

Notes:

[R75.2]

Apparently he and his first wife separated before 1870, and then she died before 1880.
William is living with his father on the 1870 census, and Sophronia is next door.
If that is true, he must have had another wife before Irene to be Lamar's mother.

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He was a farmer.

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1920 census Attala Co MS p54b
William P Rigsby 73 AL/AL/AL
wife Irene 61 MS/AL/GA
son Grover 33 MS
son Herbert 20 MS

1910 census Attala Co MS p157b
Will P Rigby 62 AL/AL/AL
wife Julia I 50 MS/AL/AL
son Grover C 23 MS
son Earl P 21 MS
son Clarke L 18 MS
dau Bettie B 16 MS
son Herbert H 11 MS

1900 census Attala Co MS p141a
William Rigby 53 1846-07 AL/NC/SC
wife Irene 39 1860-09 MS/AL/MS
son Ernest W 18 1881-07 MS
dau May M 17 1882-10 MS
son Grover C 15 1885-04 MS
son Earl P 12 1887-11 MS
dau Yasso? L 10 1889-11 MS
son Clark L 8 1892-05 MS
dau Bettie B 6 1894-08 MS
son Herbert H 1 1899-01 MS

1880 census Attala Co MS p106d
William P Rigsby 33 AL/AL/AL
sis Sallie 25 AL
sis Elizabeth 23 AL
bro Robert Lee 15 MS
bro Joseph J 13 MS
son John W 12 MS
dau Margaret E 10 MS
son Lamar S 5 MS

Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 23386

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