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Show AUG-26-34 TUE 18:46 NOVA Ford..Rigby HOllse This house was built for Juhn and Mary Anna Wright P(1rd c.IB8.3. Juhn had cmi~r"tcd fmm England with his first wife. Rcl1CccA. and their nine children in 1854. After Rehecc:I's d~~,\th in 1881, he llnd Mnry Anna Wright. wht'l had emigrllted frmn England In 1870, were married in 188.3, John retired in 1886 ~nd continued to live in this house: until his dcnth in 1901 at the (I~e n( 96, The property remained in Mary Anna's nllme until 1906 when portions l'( the prorcrfy were deeded to John's sons, Willi"m, John, Joseph. Ilnd Hyrum. The property Wit!! liold to Willimn L. Rigby, Mary's nephew. in 1924. William, the Stm of John and Lllcy Ann Wri~ht Ri~hy, wA5 hom in 1877. He llnd Blanc.he Bllrncs were married in 1911 They lived in this house until the: flood of 1930 when the h(')ul:e became fined wlrh mud llnd they m()ved nexr d('Ior into his parents' houRe, Inter uSi"g this hou~e a5 rcnt1l1 pru~'eny. Blanche died in 19.11 from complicatiuns of childbirth. William W:l~ Justic.e uf the peace in Centerville during 1936-53. He died in 1953. The h()lIse Willi dCf:ded tn their sun, Willinm B., and daughter, Jeanne R. Mooney, who c()ntin\lc~ to rc:~lde in the house. Marker pltlccd in 1997 by Jennne R. Mo~"nev .--m- . p.8e |
