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Mentha  Rigsby 

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James Edward Rigsby
7/4/1887 - 1/27/1968

Evalee (Aycock) Howard
10/15/1894 - 12/26/1990
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Mentha Rigsby
5/7/1920 - 1/18/1995
Mentha Rigsby was born on May 7, 1920 in Calhoun County, Georgia and died on January 18, 1995 in Albany, Georgia. She lived to be 74 years old.

She married Mitchell Taylor Peak.

Children:
Gloria
Brenda
Mary
Mitchell T.
Records
Census1/1/1940 Fountain Bridge GA (Randolph County) 19 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. 
Newspaper1/20/1995 Cario GA (Grady County) 74 yrs old 
Mentha Rigsby Peak - Homemaker - Cario, GA - Mentha Rigsby Peak, 74, of Albany died Wednesday at John D. Archbold Memorial Hosptial in Thomasville after a lengthy illness.
The funeral will be at 11am Friday at First Baptist Church in Putney with burial in Floral Memory Gardens in Albany. The Rev. Keith Travis and The Rev. Smallwood will officate.
A native of Calhoun County, Mrs. Peak was a homemaker. She was a charter member of First Baptist Church. She was the widow of Mitchell Taylor Peak.
Survivors include three daughters, Gloria Dorminy of Sylvester, Brenda Ralston of Roswell and Mary Flowers of Cario; a son, Mitchell T. Peak of Cartersville; Four siters, Audrey Buchannan of Plans, Ruth Rigsby of Lathonia, Mara Dowell of Gainsville and Lana Bell Duckworth of Cordele; a half sister, Essie Howard of Dawson; and ten grandchildren. Visitation will be 7-9 pm today at Clark Funeral Home. 

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4 1924 Peach County is formed.
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3 1923 Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
3 1923 Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
4 1924 Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
6 1926 Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
7 1927 The first television transmission was announced in England
8 1928 Big bang theory was introduced
16 1936 The first regular television broadcast happens in England
18 1938 Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
26 1946 The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
27 1947 Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
31 1951 The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
32 1952 The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
37 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.
40 1960 The ruby laser was created by Maiman
42 1962 U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
45 1965 The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
51 1971 The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
54 1974 Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright
55 1975 Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
59 1979 First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
61 1981 AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.
66 1986 Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.
69 1989 An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth
70 1990 Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993.
74 1994 The world watches comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter
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18 1938 NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
19 1939 NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
21 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.
30 1950 NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
35 1955 NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
40 1960 NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
43 1963 NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
49 1969 NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
50 1970 NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.
57 1977 NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
64 1984 NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft.
72 1992 NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets".
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7 1927 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
9 1929 Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
10 1930 Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
12 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
13 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!
14 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.
14 1934 Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
15 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
19 1939 Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
23 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.
24 1944 On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
25 1945 President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
34 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.
42 1962 The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
46 1966 The Black Panther party is founded.
47 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.
51 1971 Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
52 1972 Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
53 1973 The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
57 1977 Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
61 1981 Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
67 1987 President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.
67 1987 January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
69 1989 George Bush is elected president. (Republican)
73 1993 Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat)
74 1994 O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch.
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18 1938 Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
19 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.
25 1945 World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
69 1989 The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany
70 1990 Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War.
72 1992 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed.
73 1993 South Africa accepts racial equality.


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