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Rachel Isabel Riggs Kerby

Birth: 12 Nov 1856
Provo, Utah County, Utah, USA
Death: 23 Nov 1922 (aged 66)
Elfrida, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Burial: Whitewater Cemetery

Elfrida, Cochise County, Arizona, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 25105728 View Source

Daughter of Nathaniel Riggs and Anna Reynolds, was born in Utah Territory and traveled with her parents to the Arizona Territory in the late 1800's arriving in Pima, Safford, Arizona where her mother, Anna, planted the first cotton in that area having carried plants with her that had originated in Alabama, her state of birth.

Prior to their leaving Utah Rachel would meet and marry husband Francis Kerby who had arrived in the U.S. aboard an LDS recruit program ship from the Jersey Isles, UK. Rachel and her husband later moved to the Webb district of Elfrida, Cochise County, AZ where she died and was buried at the local cemetery on Mormon Road in Elfrida. Several of her relatives live still in the Elfrida area of Cochise County.

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Mother of:
William Kerby (1881-1966)
Charles Kerby (1882-1963)
Jane Kerby (1886-1887)
Jesse Kerby (1888-1951)

Daughter of Nathaniel Riggs and Anna Reynolds, was born in Utah Territory and traveled with her parents to the Arizona Territory in the late 1800's arriving in Pima, Safford, Arizona where her mother, Anna, planted the first cotton in that area having carried plants with her that had originated in Alabama, her state of birth.

Prior to their leaving Utah Rachel would meet and marry husband Francis Kerby who had arrived in the U.S. aboard an LDS recruit program ship from the Jersey Isles, UK. Rachel and her husband later moved to the Webb district of Elfrida, Cochise County, AZ where she died and was buried at the local cemetery on Mormon Road in Elfrida. Several of her relatives live still in the Elfrida area of Cochise County.

In addition to those linked below
Mother of:
William Kerby (1881-1966)
Charles Kerby (1882-1963)
Jane Kerby (1886-1887)
Jesse Kerby (1888-1951)

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Rachel I. Kerby 1826 1922

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Francis "Frank" Kerby III

1847–1925

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Polly Ann Young Penrod

1836–1909

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Added: Mar 6, 2008
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25105728/rachel_isabel-kerby: accessed ), memorial page for Rachel Isabel Riggs Kerby (12 Nov 1856–23 Nov 1922), Find a Grave Memorial ID 25105728, citing Whitewater Cemetery, Elfrida, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Maintained by Ancestry Seeker (contributor 46913946).

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