1850 Census DeKalb County, Alabama, Civil Division No 25, p written 655 and 656, printed 327, blacksmith
1860 Census Marshall County, Alabama, Cottonville PO, p 737, June 2, 1860
Story shared by Elva Yokley on June 9, 1992.
Nacy Riggins was guarding prisioners at a prison camp between Red Hill and Diamond (Marshall County, Alabama). He was captrued by the Yankees while guarding the prisoners. They took him and the family cow and left the family to go hungry. Mre. Yokely said this prison was an old building, she remembered seeing it, and had even played in it, and it was located on the old Cobb quarter plantation. The story goes that Nacy was taken up around Nashville, where he was put in some type of open building, caught pneumonia and died. The family never saw him again. He was a blacksmith and lived over the ridge from Big Spring Valley (Modinee Hollow).
