Clifton Rigsbee Genealogy
Record modified: 2014-03-30
Born: 1886-03-22 North Carolina USA
Died: 1908-05-11 Durham Co, North Carolina USA
Marriages:
1. 1905-10-01 Rosa Cates
Children of Clifton Rigsbee and Rosa Cates:
Notes:
[R01.4.4.5.1]
married in Durham Co NC
buried in Maplewood cemetery, Durham Co NC
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The times dispatch., May 11, 1908
[Richmond VA]
Durham NC
After lying in Watts hospital in a serious condition for over a week,
the result of a terrible accident, Mr J Clifton Rigsbee, lineman for
the Interstate Telephone Company, died this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The accident, which was a very singular and almost unexplainable one,
occurred while the young man was riding on a load of telephone poles
on a wagon, when suddenly the poles became unbalanced, and after the
lower ends struck the ground rebounded with such force as to throw
the digging bar, which was also lying on the wagon, against him, and
which entered his back and penetrated seven inches. He was released
from the bar by fellow workmen, and the fact that he survived after
such terrible injury for a week is nothing less than marvelous. He
was very tenderly cared for by several skilled physicians. The young
man was twenty-three years of age, and is survived by a wife and one
child.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 33017
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