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James Edward Rigsby 

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James R. Knight
6/27/1838 - 10/7/1911

Martha A. Rigsby
1844 - 1911
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James Edward Rigsby
7/4/1887 - 1/27/1968
James Edward Rigsby was born on July 4, 1887 in Calhoun County, Georgia and died on January 27, 1968 in Muscogee County, Georgia. He lived to be 80 years old.

He was called Jim. He owned and operated a Grocery Store in Fountain Bridge, GA. He ran a Grist Mill and made he made wooden chairs and rocking chairs, he also played the fiddle. He married Samantha Lowery and they had three children Carlton Leon (7/14/1904),Essie Lou (8/28/1907-1996) and Lena Bell (10/26/1910).

After the death of Samantha he married Evalee A. Howard.

Their children were:
  1. Lena Bell Rigsby (1910)
  2. Iva Lee Rigsby (1913)
  3. Clyde N. Rigsby (1918)
  4. Martha Rigsby (1920)
  5. Dock L. Rigsby (1924)
  6. Audrey Rigsby (1925)
  7. Marjorie Mae Rigsby (1928)
  8. Christian Rigsby
  9. Victor J. Rigsby
  10. Ruth Rigsby (1931)
Records
Census4/28/1910 Militia District 998 GA (Randolph County) 22 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.  
Military6/5/1917 GA (Randolph County) 29 yrs old 
WWI Draft card -Name: James Edwards Rigsby, County: Randolph, State: Georgia, Birthplace: Georgia, Birth Date: July 4, 1887, Race: Caucasian (White), Age: 30, Occupation: mechanic, employer: self, Nearest Relative: Wife and four children, Height: Short, Build: Stocky, Color of Eyes: Dark, Hair: Black,  
Census2/24/1920 Militia District 998 GA (Randolph County) 32 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).  
Census4/8/1930  Smithville GA (Lee County) 42 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), Martha Rigsby (age 9), Dock Rigsby (age 6), Audrey 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 LeConte St. Daughter,Estalee is a widow. James is a retail merchant.James was 25 and Eva Lee was 20 when they married. They rent their home.  
Census1/1/1940 Fountain Bridge GA (Randolph County) 52 yrs old 
line#33 - Family #100: James E. Rigsby (age 52), Evelyn Rigsby (age 42), Minnie Rigsby (age 18), Lewis Rigsby (age 16), Andrie Rigsby (age 14), Manie Rigsby (age 12), Ruth Rigsby (age 10). All were born in GA. James is a operator at a Cane Mill. He works 52 week a year and income is $400. 
Death Certificate1/27/1968 GA (Muscogee, County) 80 yrs old 
Name: James Rigsby, Birth: July 4, 1887, Death: Jan 1968 - Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, United States of America, Civil: Georgia 

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18 1905 Crisp, Grady, Jenkins, Tift, Davis, Stephens, Toombs, Turner, and Ben Hill Counties formed.
25 1912 Forsyth, Bleckley, and Wheeler Counties formed.
27 1914 Barrow, Candler, Bacon, and Evans Counties are formed.
30 1917 Atkinson and Treutlen Counties are formed.
33 1920 Seminole, Lanier, Brantley, Long, and Lamar Counties are formed.
37 1924 Peach County is formed.
AgeDateEvent
2 1889 The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards
8 1895 Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance.
10 1897 First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph
13 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.
13 1900 Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams"
14 1901 First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
15 1902 The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
16 1903 Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk
17 1904 The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
19 1906 Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
19 1906 The triode vacuum tube is invented
19 1906 Electrons are discovered by Thomson
25 1912 The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
26 1913 Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
27 1914 The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
36 1923 Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
36 1923 Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
37 1924 Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
39 1926 Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
40 1927 The first television transmission was announced in England
41 1928 Big bang theory was introduced
49 1936 The first regular television broadcast happens in England
51 1938 Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
59 1946 The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
60 1947 Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
64 1951 The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
65 1952 The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
70 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.
73 1960 The ruby laser was created by Maiman
75 1962 U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
78 1965 The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
AgeDateEvent
21 1908 NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
25 1912 White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
26 1913 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
30 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.
32 1919 NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
51 1938 NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
52 1939 NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
54 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.
63 1950 NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
68 1955 NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
73 1960 NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
76 1963 NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
AgeDateEvent
22 1909 The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
23 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.
40 1927 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
42 1929 Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
43 1930 Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
45 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
46 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!
47 1934 Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
47 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.
48 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
52 1939 Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
56 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.
57 1944 On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
58 1945 President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
67 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.
75 1962 The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
79 1966 The Black Panther party is founded.
80 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.
AgeDateEvent
22 1909 The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
27 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.
30 1917 Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
32 1919 The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
33 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.
51 1938 Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
52 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.
58 1945 World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.


Marriages
Evalee Howard
Born on October 15, 1894 and died on December 26, 1990.
They were married 10/7/1911.

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The Children of James Edward Rigsby

Lena Bell Rigsby
Born somewhere in Georgia on October 26, 1909 and died in Cordele, Crisp County, Georgia on March 14, 2000. She was 90 years old.

She married Jerry Robert Duckworth (11/8/1906 - 4/7/1983). ...
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15 years old
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)
Children:
Ted O'Neal (1932-2002)
Betty Zane
Douglas D.
Shelton W.
Charles D.
James L....
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Clyde Numan Rigsby
Born in Shellman, Calhoun County, Georgia on June 11, 1918 and died in Columbus , Muscogee County, Georgia on January 19, 1980. She was 61 years old.

He married in 1939 to Juanita J. Jordan (3/12/1914 SC -10/18/1991 GA) ...
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Mentha Rigsby
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on May 7, 1920 and died in Albany, Georgia on January 18, 1995. She was 74 years old.

She married Mitchell Taylor Peak.

Children:
Gloria
Brenda
Mary
Mitchell T. ...
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Dock Lewis Rigsby
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on February 3, 1924 and died in Sumter Co., Georgia on February 24, 1993. He was 69 years old.

He married Martha Eugenia Buchanan (3/28/1920 - 11/8/1985)
Children:
Dock Lewis Rigsby Jr.
William E. Rigsby
Martha Jean Rigsby
Ira Lee Rigsby
Tom Edward Rigsby ...
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Audrey Rigsby
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on May 1, 1926 and died in Thomas, Georgia on October 24, 1997. She was 71 years old.

She married on July 20, 1947 to Joseph Charlie Buchanan.
Children:
Steve J.
Peggy J....
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Majorie Mae Rigsby
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on January 24, 1928 and died in Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia on November 20, 2017. She was 89 years old.

She was called Mara Mae. She married on July 3, 1954 to Leroy Vern Dowell (4/28/1928 Ensign,KS -2/1/2016 Hall Co.,GA).
Children: Donna G.
Sandra D. ...
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