Ida Rigley (1855)

Born 1855 in Richmond, Virginia, United States

Died [date unknown] in Arkansas, United States

Biography

Ida Rigley is a part of US Black heritage.

Ida Rigley was interviewed in Forrest City, Arkansas in about 1937 about her life and her time as an enslaved person.

"I was born in Richmond, Virginia. Colonel Radford and Emma Radford owned my mother. They had an older girl, Emma and Betty and three boys. I called her Miss Betty. My mother was Silvia Jones and she had five children. Bill Jones was my father. He was a born free man and a blacksmith at Lynchburg, Virginia in slavery times. He asked Colonel Radford could he come and see my mama and marry her. They had a wedding in Colonel Radford's dining room and a preacher on the place married them. They told me. My father was a Presbyterian preacher. I heard papa preach at Lynchburg."

Slave Owners

• Colonel Radford

Interview: Ida Rigley was interviewed in Forrest City, Arkansas by Miss Irene Robertson as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Ida Rigley - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 6; pages 42-46 images 47-51 of 376.