Joseph Lester Rigby

Brief Life History of Joseph Lester

When Joseph Lester Rigby was born on 4 August 1891, in Newton, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Eckersley Rigby, was 24 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Beck, was 21. He married Harriet Maria Lucas on 28 May 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hibbard Election Precinct, Madison, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 25 October 1976, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Lester Rigby
1891–1976
Harriet Maria Lucas
1895–1979
Marriage: 28 May 1913
Lester Lalovi Rigby
1915–1983
Merle Rigby
Rigby
1917–1917
Alden Lucas Rigby
1918–1997
Eva LaRue Rigby
1921–2012
Ray Wendell Rigby
1923–2019
Harold Lucas Rigby
1925–2021
Merle Rigby
1929–2022

Sources (68)

  • Joseph Lester Rigby, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
  • Lester Rigby, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Joseph L. Rigby, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1896 · Utah Becomes a State

After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.

1914

New Zealand occupies Western Samoa during World War I and continues to administer it after the war by virtue of a League of Nations mandate (and a United Nations mandate after World War II).

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire): habitational name from Ribby in Lancashire, named with Old Scandanavian hryggr ‘ridge’ + ‘farmstead, village’. Compare Rigsby .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Story Highlight

Tribute to Lester and Hattie Rigby, on their 50th Wedding Anniversary by their son, Ray W. Rigby

Congratulations, Mother and Dad, on this, your Golden Wedding Anniversary. You can look back over 50 years of married life with a great deal of satisfaction. You have always provided a home full of …

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