Genealogy for
James Edward Rigsby
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James Edward Rigsby
1878 - 1/27/1968
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James Edward Rigsby was born about 1878 in Calhoun County, Georgia and died on January 27, 1968 in Muscogee County, Georgia. Actual date of birth is unknown. He lived to be about 90 years old.
He was called Jim. He married Samantha and they had two children Carlton and Essie Lou. He later married Evalee A. Howard.
Their children were:
- Ruth Rigsby
- Iva Lee Rigsby
- Essie Lou Rigsby
- Lena Bell Rigsby
- Onie Lee Rigsby
- Clyde N. Rigsby
- Martha Rigsby
- Dock Rigsby
- Aubrey Rigsby
- Marjorie Mae Rigsby
- Christian Rigsby
- Victor Rigsby
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 | Census | 4/28/1910 | Militia District 998 GA (Randolph County) | 32 yrs old | | Recorded as family #226: James E. Rigsby (age 32),
Samantha Rigsby (age 21),
Carlon Rigsby (age 5),
Essie Rigsby (age 2), and
James R Knight (father, age 73). James Knight is a widow. James and Samantha have been married 6 years and they have two childern. All were born in GA.
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| Census | 2/24/1920 | Militia District 998 GA (Randolph County) | 42 yrs old | | Recorded as Family #101: James E. Rigsby (age 32),
Emlee A. Rigsby (age 26),
Carlton L Rigsby (age 15),
Essie Lou Rigsby (age 12),
Lena Bell Rigsby (age 10),
Iva Lee Rigsby (age 7), and
Clyde Rigsby (age 2).
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| Census | 4/8/1930 | Smithville GA (Lee County) | 52 yrs old | | Recorded as Family #116: Jim E. Rigsby (age 50),
Eva L. Rigsby (age 45),
Estalee Rigsby (age 23),
Lena B. Rigsby (age 20),
Onie Lee Rigsby (age 17),
Clyde Rigsby (age 13),
Mendel Rigsby (age 9),
Dock Rigsby (age 6),
Aubrey Rigsby (4 months old),
Majorie M. Rigsby (2 years, 4 months old),
Christian Rigsby (2 years, 11 months old), and
Victor Rigsby (one year old). All were born in GA. They live on LeCount St. James is a retail merchant.
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James, his family, and friends. For example, James is 31 years old when The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
| Age | Date | Event |
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| 27 |
1905 |
Crisp, Grady, Jenkins, Tift, Davis, Stephens, Toombs, Turner, and Ben Hill Counties formed. |
| 34 |
1912 |
Forsyth, Bleckley, and Wheeler Counties formed. |
| 36 |
1914 |
Barrow, Candler, Bacon, and Evans Counties are formed. |
| 39 |
1917 |
Atkinson and Treutlen Counties are formed. |
| 42 |
1920 |
Seminole, Lanier, Brantley, Long, and Lamar Counties are formed. |
| 46 |
1924 |
Peach County is formed. |
| Age | Date | Event |
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| 1 |
1879 |
Edison invents the electric light bulb. |
| 11 |
1889 |
The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards |
| 17 |
1895 |
Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance. |
| 19 |
1897 |
First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph |
| 22 |
1900 |
The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control. |
| 22 |
1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
| 23 |
1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
| 24 |
1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
| 25 |
1903 |
Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk |
| 26 |
1904 |
The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming |
| 28 |
1906 |
Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes |
| 28 |
1906 |
The triode vacuum tube is invented |
| 28 |
1906 |
Electrons are discovered by Thomson |
| 34 |
1912 |
The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people. |
| 35 |
1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
| 36 |
1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
| 45 |
1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
| 45 |
1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
| 46 |
1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
| 48 |
1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
| 49 |
1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
| 50 |
1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
| 58 |
1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 60 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
| 68 |
1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
| 69 |
1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
| 73 |
1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
| 74 |
1952 |
The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen. |
| 79 |
1957 |
Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
| 82 |
1960 |
The ruby laser was created by Maiman |
| 84 |
1962 |
U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth |
| 87 |
1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
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| 4 |
1882 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity. |
| 7 |
1885 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen. |
| 30 |
1908 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile |
| 34 |
1912 |
White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out. |
| 35 |
1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
| 39 |
1917 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism. |
| 41 |
1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
| 60 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 61 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
| 63 |
1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
| 72 |
1950 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later. |
| 77 |
1955 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL. |
| 82 |
1960 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public |
| 85 |
1963 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| Age | Date | Event |
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| 31 |
1909 |
The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP) |
| 32 |
1910 |
Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area. |
| 49 |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
| 51 |
1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
| 52 |
1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
| 54 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
| 55 |
1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
| 56 |
1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
| 56 |
1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
| 57 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 61 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
| 65 |
1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
| 66 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
| 67 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
| 76 |
1954 |
The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency. |
| 84 |
1962 |
The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba. |
| 88 |
1966 |
The Black Panther party is founded. |
| 89 |
1967 |
Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad. |
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| 31 |
1909 |
The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe |
| 36 |
1914 |
World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days. |
| 39 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
| 41 |
1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
| 42 |
1920 |
Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made. |
| 60 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 61 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
| 67 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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Marriages
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| Evalee Howard
Born on October 15, 1894 and died on December 26, 1990
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The Children of James Edward Rigsby
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Iva Lee Rigsby
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on March 7, 1913 and died in Fayette County, Georgia on May 20, 1983. She was 70 years old.
She married Shelton Taft Middleton (12/13/1907 -11/7/1985) ...
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Clyde N. Rigsby
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on June 11, 1918 and died somewhere in Georgia on January 19, 1980. She was 61 years old.
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Martha Rigsby
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on May 7, 1920 and died somewhere in Georgia on January 18, 1995. She was about 74 years old.
Her name was Martha or Mentha. She married Mich _________....
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Dock Rigsby
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on February 24, 1924 and died somewhere in Georgia on February 24, 1993. She was about 69 years old.
He married Martha...
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Audrey Rigsby
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia about 1926 and died in Thomas, Georgia on October 24, 1997. She was about 71 years old.
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