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James Claude Rigney[1, 2]

Male 1909 - 1936  (27 years)


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  • Name James Claude Rigney 
    Born 2 Apr 1909  Bramwell, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 30 Dec 1936  Mercer, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Oak HIll Cemetery, Mercer County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I18078  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 14 Apr 2017 

    Father Robert Morris Rigney,   b. 8 Sep 1874, Callands, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Apr 1955, Bluefield West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Lucy Tabor,   b. 22 Jan 1882, Mercer Co., West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jan 1966, Mercer County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 1898  McDowell, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6587  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Death Certificate-James Claude Rigney
    Death Certificate-James Claude Rigney
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    Birth Record-James Claude Rigney
    Birth Record-James Claude Rigney
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  • Sources 
    1. [S37] Death Certificate.

    2. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=108473401&ref=acom.
      J. C. RIGNEY. 27, IS TAKEN BY DEATH
      Manager Of Motion Picture Houses Succumbs To Complications;
      Rites Will Be Held Friday

      J. Claude RIgney, 27, manager of the motion picture houses atBramwell, Maybeury and McComas, died at 1:45 yesterday afternoon, December 30, 1936, at Bramwell, succumbing to complications.
      He had been seriously ill for about five weeks.
      Funeral services will be he'd at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Freeman Baptist church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Pebworlh, following by interment in the Freeman cemetery.
      Mr. Rigney, a widely-known young man of the Bramwell section He was the son of Robert N. Rigney and Lucy Tabor Rigney., of Bramwell, and was born April 2, 1909, and was reared in that community.
      Besides his parents he is survived by his wife, who before marriage was Miss Ada Mills, of McComas, and the following brothers and sisters: Millard, Howard and Earl Rigney, of Bramwell; Miss Beulah Rigney, of Aurora, 111., Myrtle, Dorothy and June Rigney, Mrs. John Wasco and Mrs. Cecil Mulllns, all of Bramwell.
      Active pallbearers will be; Carl Johnson, Leon Cromer, Ed Pasley, Lynn Scott, George Allen, Fred Niswander, Cecil Cowan, Fred Boley,
      Jimmy Hlnchee, Lawrence Shields, Robert Creasy, Walter Creasy, Raymond Boley, Kenneth Price.
      Honorary pallbearers: R. L- Parson, John Hewitt, R. B. Smith. A. M. Herndon, Louis Little, J. A. Littie, J. C. Newbold, S. J. Bryant, E, L. Keesllng, C. E. Crumby, O. H Carroll, E. R. Odell, Dr. H. B. Luttrell. Dr. D. F. Love, Ernest Freeman, William Guy, T. S. Painter, S. C. Moore, Leonard Boley, Jonathan Bowen, L. J. Wagner and Thomas Stockdale.
      Obit. from findagrave