UPSON COUNTY, GA - CEMETERIES  Riggins Cemetery

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RIGGINS CEMETERY


Location:
Dripping Rock on the Flint River near junction of Meriwether
and Pike Counties. 

From Thomaston northwest on Highway 74 to Rock Rd  (just
before county line), then south (left) on Dripping Rock Rd.
Cemetery is at the end.

Family tradition has it that there are unmarked graves back
behind the current cemetery where the woods have grown up on
what is now Boy Scout property --Camp Thunder. I am told that
there are slave graves in there too.

MELTON

June Melton died at his home near Thunder Tuesday after an
illness of nine days. His remains were intered at Riggins
Cemetery Wednesday. Melton was 33 years of age and is
survived by his mother, six brothers and two sisters. 

Note:
Mrs. Eva Melton is the daughter of Joshaway Riggins.

Josh Riggins  1/24/1878- 8/9/1925
Obit on-line
(his widow, 
six daughters, Mrs. Eva Melton, Misses Bessie, 
Irene, Agnes and Adel Riggins and Mrs.
Lilla Huckaby, four sons, Messers Johnnie, 
Horace, Willard and Glynn Riggins, all of Upson Co. 
Son of James J. and Martha Jane Padgett)

T. (Tullis) Quiller Riggins  1885-1960
daughter of James J. and Martha Jane Padgett

Jewell Riggins 1901- 1946

Will Riggins 1918- 1918

Rufus Riggins 1904- 1967

Lena Agnes Riggins 1880-1916

E.T. Riggins  died 1953 age 49

Lennis Ruth Riggins 1913-1914

Adell Riggins 1915-1933

Johnnie Riggins 1904-1929

Lon Riggins 1877- 1944

James J. Riggins 1837-1904
(husband of Martha Jane Padgett)
(son of  James M. and Winford V. Alford Riggins)

Martha Jane Padgett Riggins 1837- 1911
(wife of James J. Riggins)

John Riggins died 12/13/1959  age 80

Issac Newton  Wright

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Solitary Grave across the Road

Riggins, Solomon
grandson of James J. and Martha
(no dates)

NOTE:James M. and Winford V. Alford Riggins
had 13 children, Mary Ann Elizabeth who married I.H.B.
Melton, Tullie (who never married), James William who married
Dollie Melton, Georgia Ann who married Tom Ledford, Alice who
married Julius Caesar Wright, Ida Ophelia who married Willis
F. Melton, Ernest T. who married Lena Cox, Joshua  who
married Lou Melton, Reuben who married Betty Pearl Huckaby,
Ada (my grandmother) who married Robert Edgar Gilbert, Thomas
who married Minnie Riggins , Eva who married Grover Newman
and Eve who married Rob Justice.

Note:
Winford was the daughter of Winford and Bashie Braswell
Alford , descendants of Lodwick Alford who was in the North
Carolina  House of Reps in 1776.  Alfords are buried in the
Alford Cemetery on Dripping Rock Road , behind a house still
in the Alford family. Winford had two children by her first
marriage, great -granddaddy  and his sister, Lucidie (Dicy).
Within three years of his birth , his father died and his m
other married his uncle, (his father's brother), Joshua H.
Riggins.

By her second marriage she had 12  more children, Brittian,
Sarah  Elizabeth who married John G. Brown, Mary Ann who
married Robert Brown, Dilithe (Aunt Lithe who married Bud
Ledford)and Delpha(stillborn) (Twins), Winford, Recy who
married John H. Owens Jr., . Joshua who married Adel Melton
and Julie Ann Melton, William C. (Fiddler Bill), Thomas,
Queen Victory(stillborn) and Bashaba Jane.

Issac Newton  Wright,  father of Bun Wright,,  who always played the fiddle for President Roosevelt is buried here too.  He was Alice's  father in law. ( whose fiddle is in the museum in Warm Springs)

Georgia Ann died in the Florida Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1898.
Reuben and his wife are buried in the Molena Cemetery

Eve Justice is buried at Mt. Olive in Molena.

Ada and Rob Gilbert are buried in Hillview East Cemetery in LaGrange