Show Mrs Lucy Rigby f Of Centerville y J Called By Death i 1 I Mrs Airs Luc Lucy Ann Wright RI Rigby b 85 pas passed d awa away a at her home o in North Centerville day ofa of general deb debility ity last r Saturday after a weeks illness i She was the daughter of f James i Wright and Mary Mar Ann Stean Stenn and 1844 1814 in Harbor- Harbor Harborough Harborough was born Feb ough Magna Warwickshire Wal England just a few months before the Prophet Prophete f f e Joseph Smith was vas Mrs Sirs Rigby emigrated to Utah Utahn n n her parents oner one 1866 leaving r 1 14 W 4 I brother and two sisters She travel- travel r fd td with neighbors George Garrett Garrott 1 and irid family who afterwards resided c f in Bountiful for many years LN Leav Leav-k Leav ing ing home at 6 a m on May She iho walked twelve miles to Rugby c y- y station tation arr arrn arriving n in Liverpool at 7 o'clock the same evening Left Liverpool on the ship Ark Ark- Ark Arkwright i t wright might ri ht May 27 1866 arriving in New NewY NewYork Y Fork rk July after a hard VO-a VO voyage of six aix weeks Left Neb Nebraska in Capt Thomp Thomp- Thompson's I Ison's sons son's company July 22 to cross the plains The Indians were on the warpath so they had to be very ver care care- carel l Hill ll One young Indian chief tried to trade a horse to Brother Garrett for her not being successful he heI I followed the emigrant mt train for days She ford ed the Platt river three times also Green river ri and md other rivers She walked all the way W to Utah and cooked and washed for ten people pe-ople arriving in Salt Lake City Sept 29 1866 having covered the 1000 miles in twelve weeks week'S On her arrival in the city she made her home with Joseph W Young until April 1867 when she went to live with William Capener and family In November 1867 she was mar mar- married married married I ried to John Ri Rigby b and mo moved mod d to Centerville ilIe where she resided up to the time of her death Mrs Rigby's Indian experiences did dd not cease after she had crossed the plains but continued at her Cen- Cen Centerville erville Cen-erville i terville home Upon one occasion throe large Indians entered her house ht and took the blankets off her bed to examine three buffalo robes she had in the bottom of the bed but after examining the same the they found that they did not belong to them and left without further mol- mol eating esting estin her She stood by her little B baby while they were there not knowing mow know knowing in ing what they the might do The fam lam family family ily fly was as always good to the Indians In the fall they would come there for peaches to cut and dry for winter win win- wintel win win-i ter tel which they would take away with them There is an Indian grave graveyard graveyard yard rard on Ricks Rick's creek some little dis dis- distance dis- dis distance distance tance toward the mountains from the Rigby home Seven ven skeletons have been dug up indi ging water ditches One time an Indian squaw died in Skull Valley and the Indians tied her dead body on her own pony leading it to this Indian cemetery where they pushed the horse off a edge of rock and finished killing it with cobble stones so they could bury in same grave with its owner She is the mother of seven chil chil- children children children dren five of whom survive They are Mrs Irs William Worsley Mrs CR C R Egbert Mrs Irs Alice Pierce Frank Ri Rigby by and William Rigby Twenty eight Twenty Twenty- i ei eight ht grandchildren and grandchildren fourteen great grandchildren also survive I r f She was left a widow at the age of 35 ages I Mrs Irs Rigby has worked in all of the organizations of the Church I passed through all of the hardships hardships of pioneer life was a teacher in the Relief Society all the time she lived in Centerville also a teacher in Sun Sun-I Sun Sunday day school claiming the distinction of having introduced marching which was vas later adopted in all the Sunday Khoo schools She was president of the first women's suffrage association in Cen Cen- Centerville Cen- Cen Centerville Centerville terville also counselor in the first primary of Centerville She always took pleasure in doing h her duty in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Latter-da Latter day Saints having done Temple work for all nil of h h r dead relatives whose names she could obtain also for her neighbors who died without hearin hearing the gospel She died as she had lived n lived a God fearing saint a lovin loving and devoted mother a kind friend and neighbor at the a age e of 8 85 years 6 months an and 26 da days s 's Funeral services were held Tues Tues- Tues Tues- Tuesday Tuesday da day at 1 p m in in the Centerville St Second Cond ward chapel Bishop J N Ford presiding The speakers were J W Ford of Centerville Thomas of Bountiful a shipmate of the deceased John S White of Farmin Farmington ton Professor Charles Kent and Rulon S Wells of Salt Lake CitY City all long life-long friends of the family They all spoke of her cheer cheer- cheerful cheerful cheerful ful and happy faithfulness to the cause and her desire and willingness willing to render any assistance that she could In her native land she walked as far as 12 miles at night to take food to the Elders who were traveling without purse or script A quartet from the choir furn urn the sin singing ing and Professor Kent nt rendered two solos entitled Rock Me Ie to t Sleep Mother Just for Tonight and Some Sweet Day be- be being being be being ing favorite selections of hers There were beautiful floral offer offerings offerings in ings 3 and a lar large e attendance C A Parrish offered the opening prayer Arthur Capener of Garland the bene bene- benediction bene- bene benediction benediction diction and President Rulon S Wells dedicated the grave The pallbearers were J H II and Frank R Worsley Edward Pierce Buff Pebley grand grand- grandsons grandsons sons of the deceased Seymour and Sidney Wells Interment took place in the Farmington cemetery beside her husband who had preceded herin her herin herin in death by fifty years ears |