webpage by Paul Ridenour
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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