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Cemeteries of Madison County, Vol. III, page 217
Keel Cemetery & Rigney Cemetery
Willis L. Kennemer
1864 - 1941
Jonie C. Markham
1922 - 1943
Ruth Markham
Dec. 27, 1885
June 18, 1956
Shares stone with John
John Markham
May 20, 1890
July 16, 1948
Nancy J. Thomas
Nov. 27, 1844
July 22, 1915
Rigney Cemetery
Location: Section 11-5-2E. NE SE NW. Off Cherry Tree Road. The cemetery is under a large magnolia tree a few yards behind house which is at the end of a lane north off Cherry Tree Road. (Cemetery was canvassed 18 Oct 1972.)
A local story says that when Fleming J. Rigney “died,” rigor mortis did not set in (there was no embalming in the county then). The family put nickels on his eyes and held a wake. He turned over. They kept waiting but his body never got stiff and they buried him anyway.
The Southern Advocate of 8 Sept 1866 stated that on 4 Sept 1866 Mr. Fleming J. Rigney married Miss Laura E. Sullivan, daughter of Dr. Isaac Sullivan, all of Madison County.
Most of this family is buried in the Rigney Cemetery in Section 6-3-2E.
William Haughton Rigney Son of F. J. & E. V. Rigney Born Jan. 19, 1909 Died June 8, 1910 Dec. 21, 1924 [CSA Iron Cross No. 545 on this grave. The middle initial was definitely an “I.” but he is shown of F. J. on other stones in this cemetery and on other records so this may
Virginia Rigney Dau. of F. J. & E. V. Rigney be a stonecutter's error. His middle name was John.]
Born Feb. 11, 1905 Died Feb. 23, 1905 Laura E. Rigney wife of F. J. Rigney
Lillian Elkins Dau. of R. A. & Penelope Elkins Born & Died March 17, 1908 Dau. of I. W. & M. A. Sullivan. March 4, 1846 Oct. 14, 1900. John E. Rigney
Virginia E. Rigney Sept. 17, 1869 April 3, 1953 Son of F. J. & L. E. Rigney Born Sept. 11, 1870 Died Oct. 22, 1870
Flemming [John] Rigney Nov. 9, 1842 Note: Outside the fence which enclosed the above graves there were four graves marked with fieldstones.
BETHEL CEMETERY
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