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The webpage includes the gravestones of my 2nd through 4th great grandparents

David Ridenour Sr. and Margaret Wiles Ridenour [4th great grandparents]

St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia

David Sr. and Margaret Ridenour's children Susannah, Margaret, David Jr., and Samuel Ridenour were baptized at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia.  David Ridenour Sr.'s brother Jacob Ridenour (born 1759) who married Susanna Barbara Stemple was ordained and on the church council and many of their children were baptized at St. Paul  - Aurora Documents, An Accurate and Complete Translation and Transcription of Books I and II of the Original Records of Saint Paul's Lutheran Church (Founded March 24, 1787) by Karl K. Gower, Book I, pages 24 - 27


St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia

More pictures of this church from our DC trip 

Osage Cemetery
Knox Township [Now known as Toronto], Jefferson County, Ohio

David Sr. and Margaret Ridenour were one of eleven families who founded the Good Hope Lutheran Church in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1806, and it is still in use today.  They gave three acres and $30 for a church that cost $371.25 to build.  David Jr. gave $2.  The rest of their children [Mary, John, Jacob, Eva, Mathias, and Elizabeth] were baptized in this church except Daniel, George, and Sarah - Good Hope Lutheran Church, Osage, Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, Parish Records 1806-1885 by Paul Miller Ruff, pages 9-12


David and Margaret (Wiles) Ridenour's farm in Jefferson County, Ohio, near the
Pennsylvania line, north of Wheeling, West Virginia. This is also the old Good Hope Lutheran Church he founded.
Photo sent by Layel Ridenour


The Ridenours donated land for the Good Hope Lutheran Church. This is not the original
building but it is the original location. The church has since changed its name to Lighthouse Mission.
Layel Ridenour's wife Nan, is talking to John Ridenour [I am assuming John Ridenour of Stone Creek, Ohio]
Photo sent by Layel Ridenour


Layel Ridenour standing at David and Margaret's graves - his 3rd
great grandparents and my 4th great grandparents. David's
gravestone reads "RIDENOUR" while Margaret's reads
"Wife of RIDENHOWER." She died seven years before David.
Photo sent by Layel Ridenour


David Ridenour Sr. (11/20/1775 Hagerstown, Maryland - 8/14/1854 Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio)
4th great grandfather


Margaret Wiles, wife of D Ridenhower [David Ridenour Sr] (1774 - 2/4/1847)
4th great grandmother

More Ridenour Pictures in Indiana and Ohio


L to R: Margaret Ridenour (leaning forward), David Ridenour Sr, daughters Susannah Ridenour Notestine, and Eve Ridenour


Susannah Ridenour Notestine


Eve Ridenour


Sarah Ridenour [1816 - 1861] (photo by Dani Ryan) married John Crosier Smith [should read aged 45 years]
Some of their children are also buried here including Elizabeth Smith, Luther Smith, Harriett Smith, and John Smith and wife Emma Smith


This is another David Ridenour buried in the Osage Cemetery but he is a nephew of David Sr. and Margaret Ridenour
His parents were Jacob Ridenour and Susanna Barbara Stemple of Aurora, West Virginia, and he married Elizabeth Easterday

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David Ridenour Jr and wife Sarah Shauver Ridenour [3rd great grandparents]

Lutheran Cemetery
Wabash, Indiana

The Lutheran church that David Ridenour Jr and wife Sarah Shauver Ridenour and their 12 children attended would have been located next to this cemetery, but the small county church is no longer there.


Ridenours at Lutheran Cemetery, Wabash, Indiana


David Ridenour Jr. (my 3rd great grandfather)
Photo by Linda Jervis of Wabash County, Indiana, on 4/6/2007


Sarah (Shauver) Ridenour (my 3rd great grandmother)
Photo by Linda Jervis of Wabash County, Indiana, on 4/6/2007


Several Ridenours (18) are buried at the Lutheran Cemetery near Wabash, Indiana
Photo by Linda Jervis of Wabash County, Indiana, on 4/6/2007


I am between David Ridenour Jr. and Sarah Shauver Ridenour [the goatee is gone]
Photo by David Ridenour

Three of David Ridenour Jr.'s daughters married into the Roser family and two sons married Bent sisters

Lydia Ridenour married Isaac Roser
Susannah Ridenour married Jeremiah Roser
Sarah Ridenour married Amos Roser
Barbara Ridenour married Samuel Unger
John Ridenour married Emma A. Bent
George T. Ridenour married Mary Ellen Bent [my 2nd great grandparents]


John Ridenour and Emma A Bent, a sister of George T. Ridenour's wife Mary Ellen Bent [see below]
In this photo is my dad Robert Ridenour and my younger brother David Ridenour

 
Susannah Ridenour Roser and Barbara Ridenour Unger


Lydia Ridenour Roser


David Christopher Ridenour and wife Catharine Smith in front of the graves of David and Sarah Ridenour


County Road 420 used to be Ridenour Rd [SW of Wabash].  Land owned by the Unger Family [Locals call it "Ungerland" or "Unger Land"]
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George T. Ridenour and Mary Ellen Bent Ridenour [2nd great grandparents]

Buffalo Gap Cemetery
Buffalo Gap [near Abilene], Texas


George T. Ridenour, Buffalo Gap Cemetery, Buffalo Gap, Texas, my 2nd great grandfather
Private, Company E, 10th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
After the Civil War, he moved to Nebraska and then to Texas


Mary Ellen (Bent) Ridenour - 1st wife of George Ridenour
2nd great grandmother


Nancy Pimela (Ashford) Chapman Ridenour - 2nd wife of George T. Ridenour


Charles Edward Ridenour - son of George T. Ridenour


Ridenours buried in Buffalo Gap Cemetery, Buffalo Gap, Texas

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George F. Ridenour

Son of George T. Ridenour and Mary Ellen Bent Ridenour

Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia

[Section 18 Grave 3638]

Dad Robert Ridenour, his sister Linda Ridenour Pfiffner, me, and brother David Ridenour
at George F. Ridenour's grave [Photo by my mom Mary Alice Ridenour]


George Francis Ridenour died in WW I, just a few days before the Signing of the Armistice
Private, 359th Infantry, 90th Division, WW I


George Francis Ridenour - WWI Memorial
Taylor County War Memorial, Abilene, Texas

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David Ridenour Sr. and Margaret Wiles Ridenour [4th great grandparents]

Lost Creek Cemetery
Hicksville, Defiance County, Ohio

All photos below sent by Kay Buckles

Buried at Lost Creek Cemetery are five children and spouses of David Ridenour Sr. and Margaret Wiles Ridenour

1. Samuel Ridenour and #1 Katharine Harshbarger and #2 Mary A. Stewart
2. Elizabeth Ridenour and Jacob Leiter [and daughter Emma Leiter]
3. John Ridenour and Susannah Hilbert [and son Augustus L. Ridenour and wife Elizabeth Wipe]
4. George Ridenour and Catharine Hilbert
5. Mary Ridenour - never married



George Ridenour (1811 - 1891) founded Ney, Defiance County, Ohio
Digital photo of a photo from the Historical Atlas of the World Illustrated
George and wife Catharine Hilbert had 10 children:

Peter Ridenour - born 4/21/1834
Daniel Ridenour - born 11/6/1836
Elias Ridenour - born 9/19/1838
Mary A. Ridenour - born 10/5/1840
Isaac Ridenour - born 10/19/1842
Susannah Ridenour - born 2/26/1845
Simon Ridenour - born 9/28/1847
Andrew Ridenour - born 5/28/1850
Hannah Ridenour - born 2/19/1853
Josiah Ridenour - born 10/1/1857

Three of their children fought in the Union Army

I am assuming that his brother and my 3rd great grandfather David Ridenour Jr. may have some of the same facial features