Melissa Rigsby Genealogy
Record modified: 2024-09-21
Born: 1857-05-01 Tennessee USA
Died: 1944-10-15 DeKalb Co, Tennessee USA
Marriages:
1. 1896-03-25 Jasper Newton Fitts
Children of Melissa Rigsby and Jasper Fitts:
Notes:
[R14.10.6.4]
married in DeKalb Co TN
buried in Hayes cemetery, DeKalb Co TN
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1900 census DeKalb Co TN p236b
Jap N Fitts 56 1844-04 TN/TN/TN
wife Melissa C 55 (sic) 1855-05 TN/TN/TN
son Dink 20 1880-05 TN/TN/TN
(7 other children ages 16 to 2)
married 22 years; she has had 8 children, all living
1880 census DeKalb Co TN p195b
Melinda Rigsby 30 TN/TN/TN (divorced)
sis Callie 20 TN
son (unnamed) 1m TN
oth J L Banks 4 TN/TN/TN
The child is Callie's son Dink.
[Next door is J N Fitts 32 TN s/o T W + Isabell.]
TN delayed birth records show John Martin Fitts born in 1889 to Jap Fitts and Malisie C Rigsby, but their marriage record clearly says 1896.
As far as I can tell all the other children went by Fitts.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 14007
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