Soldier: Captain Henry Rigby
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 42
Date Entering Service: 8/16/1864
Period of Service:
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Promoted from First Lieutenant to Captain on 12/30/1864, discharged 5/19/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Henry Rigby was born in England on 9/5/1822. He married Ruth A Snediker in 1842 in New York. Henry was living in the Chesterville, Ohio area in the 1860’s. By 1870 he was living in Story, Iowa. Ruth died in 1883. Henry married Sarah E Killed in Iowa on 5/5/1887. He was employed as a shoemaker while living in Iowa. Henry collected an invalid’s pension on 5/3/1866, his wife Sarah collected a widow’s pension on 7/17/1894.
Date of Death: 6/10/1894 Place of burial: Ontario Cemetery, Ames, Iowa
Adopted By: Researcher: Velda L Montgomery