Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 
1887 Robertson County

WILLIAM T. RIGG, circuit clerk of Robertson County, and a resident of 
Mt. Olivet, was born June 9, 1836, and is a son of Alexander M. and 
Elizabeth (Fielder) Rigg, natives, respectively, of Mason and Nicholas 
Counties, Ky.  His grandfather, Clement Rigg, came from Pennsylvania to
Mason County, Ky., about 1800, was a miller, and settled near Maysville,
where he erected a mill.  Alexander M. Rigg was born in 1805, was a 
farmer, and died in 1874.  George Fielder, maternal grandfather of 
William T. Rigg, was from Fairfax County, Va., and was of Irish and 
English descent.  William T. Rigg was reared in his native county of 
Robertson, was educated in the common schools of the county and a select
school at Carlisle; in 1866 he engaged in the leaf tobacco trade and 
general mercantile business.  In 1880 he was elected circuit clerk, was 
re-elected in 1886, and is the present incumbent.  He was married in 
1859 to Miss Matilda Dayton, of Robertson County, who died in 1873, the 
mother of four children: Anna, George, William and Osmer.  In 1880 he 
took for his second wife Mrs. Matilda King, of Mason County.  Mr. Rigg
is a Freemason and a Republican.

Rigg Fielder Dayton King
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Mason-KY Nicholas-KY PA Fairfax-VA

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