This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ligon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VlB.2ACE/881.1 Message Board Post: I am researching the Ligon family (African Americans) and some of them lived in Nigton, Texas. Family members tell me that it's real name was Niggertown until that became inappropriate. Books about Trinity County say that it was settled in 1873 by former slaves.