Thomas Rigsby Genealogy
Record modified: 2022-11-20
Born: 1844-07-16 Johnson Co, Kentucky USA
Died: 1918-10-22 Greenup Co, Kentucky USA
Notes:
[R17.1.2.6]
married in Carter Co KY 1866-03-22 Elizabeth Jane Fields 1847-05-25 Carter Co KY d 1926-02-22 Carter Co KY d/o James Carter Fields + Mary Ann DeBoard
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He was a farmer.
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Kentucky, Confederate Pension Records, 1912-1930
Thomas T Riggsby of Greenup Co KY; Co K, 5th KY Infantry; b 1844-07-16 Johnson Co KY;
enlisted 1861-12-14; d 1918-10-22 Greenup Co;
widow Elizabeth Jane Fields 1847-05-25 Carter Co
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1910 census Greenup Co KY p120b
Thomas Riggsby 64 KY/NC/NC
wife Elizabeth L? 61 KY/KY/NC
sis Rebecca 71 KY
nephew Sam? Fields? 14 KY
adopted Mattie Collins
1900 census Greenup Co KY p44b
Thomas Riggsby 55 1844-07 KY/NC/NC
wife Elizabeth 53 1847-05 0/0 KY/KY/NC
sis Rebecca 62 1837-07 KY/NC/NC
lodger Bowen? Ratcliff 17
lodger Mattie Collins 5
1880 census Carter Co KY p524b
Thomas Rigsby 35 KY/NC/NC
wife Elizabeth J 33 KY/KY/NC
sis Rebecca 43 KY/NC/NC
dau Hattie Phillips 6 KY/OH/KY [adopted]
[Could Hattie be Rebecca's daughter?]
1880 agricultural census Carter Co KY p1
Thomas Rigsby (owns) 24 acres tilled, 5 acres woodland, value $300, implements $10, livestock $40, production $50; 1 milch cow (1sold, 1 slaughtered), 100 lbs butter; 4 sheep (3 lams, 1 purchased), 4 fleeces, 12 lbs; 9 swine, 7 barnyard fowl, 9 other fowl, 50 doz eggs; 12 acres Indian corn, 200 bushels; 3 acres rye, 15 bushels; 3 acres wheat, 15 bushels; 1/2 acre flax, 2 bushels seed, 10 lbs fiber; 1/2 acre Irish potatoes, 15 bushels; 1/8 acre sweet potatoes, 6 bushels; 1 acre tobacco, 50 lbs; 30 cords wood, $7
1879 manufacturing census (flour and grist mills) Carter Co KY
Thomas Rigsby $600 invested; 2 male employees, avg wage 50c/day (8 hrs summer, 9 hrs winter), total $130; 5 months operation, 7 months idle; 2 stone runs, max daily capacity 54 bushels; 1/8 of production is custom work; on Big Sinkidge(?) Little Saueby(?) river, 8-foot falls, 3 reaction wheels, 9 ft wide, 60 rpm, 18 horsepower; 240 bushels wheat, $240; 1200 bushels other grain, $800; supplies $20, total cost $1060; 548 barrels wheat flour, 1 barrel rye flour, 210 lbs buckwheat flour, 64100? lbs corn meal, 3400 lbs feed, total value $1600
1870 census Carter Co KY p125
Thomas Rigsby 25 KY
Elizabeth 23 KY
Rebecca 33 KY
[Rebecca is his sister.]
1870 agricultural census Carter Co KY p5
Thomas Rigsby 5 acres improved, value $80, implements $10; 1 milch cow, 5 swine, value $40; 50 bushels Indian corn, 20 bushels oats, 20 bushels sweet potatoes, 60 lbs butter, 1 ton hay, 10 gal molasses, manufacture $10, animals slaughtered $10, production $100
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