Paul and
Dottie Ridenour's Major Ridge Home Page
Paul and Dottie Ridenour
"Ross knew the hearts of the people, but Ridge saw the future of the nation" - Shane Smith, brother of Chief Chad Smith
"[John Ross/Anti-Treaty Party] Lovers of the land, [Ridge Party/Treaty Party/Husband Elias] lovers of the people" - Harriet Boudinot
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Major
Ridge Cherokee
Chief (1771-1839) |
This is some information
we've
been compiling on Major Ridge since 1998. This webpage has
genealogies of the Ridge, Watie, Boudinot, Paschal, Polson, Washbourne,
Northrop/Northrup, and McNeir families. I have added a new section on
Texas Cherokees.
If you have any questions or information to add, feel free to
email me:
Paul Ridenour
"Oblivion's Altar" - Historical fiction novel
about Major Ridge by award winning author David Marion Wilkinson
2003 SPUR AWARD WINNER, BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK
(Published November 2002/Purchase at
www.amazon.com)
[Dottie is mentioned in the Author's Notes and Acknowledgments, pages 369 and
375]
Complete Genealogy of Major Ridge (to the McNeir Family of Texas - References)
Major Ridge Summary
Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family Tree Summary
Click here for the genealogy of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot families in tree form (From Cherokee Cavaliers)
Major Ridge to Dottie (Doyen) Ridenour (direct line/pictures)
Major Ridge's Journey from Georgia to Honey Creek
Ridge Party’s Defense for Signing Treaty - school paper by Anastasia Ellis
Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Pictures
(Stand Watie stamp)
Historical markers, gravestones, museums Part 1 (photographs)
Historical markers, gravestones, museums Part 2 (photographs)
Where Major Ridge was assassinated
Major Ridge's original portrait at the Smithsonian/Polson Cemetery/Ridge's Lizard Brand/Stand Watie's desk
PBS Special on Major Ridge - We Shall Remain
Play performed in LA from February to April, 2012
Treaty of
New Echota
(Signed by Ridge, Boudinot, Watie, William Rogers, Robert Rogers, Andrew Ross (brother of John Ross), Gunter, Fields, Adair, Starr, Bell,
Foster, Moore, Foreman, Smith, et al)
[Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and the others signed the treaty in New Echota,
Georgia, on 12/29/1835.
John Ridge and Stand Watie signed the treaty on 3/1/1836 in DC]
Major Ridge, John Ross, George Lowry, and Elijah Hicks letter to the Essex Register 1824
Major Ridge and John Ridge letter to the Essex Register 1838
Boston Recorder - Moravian Mission Among The Cherokees At Springplace - Major Ridge and Susannah
New Echota (Cherokee Nation Capital 1825-1838)
New Echota Cemetery (Harriet Gold Boudinot)
Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home
Ridge/Watie/Boudinot/Paschal/Washbourne Signatures
Paul and Dottie's Published articles
Ridge family Quotes and Stories
50th Anniversary - Cherokee National Holiday 8/30/02 - 9/2/02
Cherokee Warrior Memorial - Opened 11/2005 [includes Worcester Cemetery and Ross Cemetery]
Sarah (Ridge) Paschal Pix (circa 1854, age 40)
Dottie Ridenour's 3rd great grandmother
Sarah Ridge's letter to the Arkansas State Gazette, printed January 15, 1840
Dottie's unedited article
about her 3rd
great grandmother -
Sarah Ridge
(Edited version printed by the Territorial Book Foundation
of Oklahoma)
Historical Marker
Dedication for the McNeir Cemetery
- 04/08/2006
Sarah Ridge's gravesite
Smith Point, Texas
East Brainerd Mission, East Brainerd, Tennessee
Congressman John Bell's
Suppressed Report
Suppressed Report In Relation To Difficulties Between The
Eastern And Western Cherokees,
Letter to the National Intelligencer, Washington, July 27, 1840
The Handbook of Texas Online - Sarah (Ridge) Paschal Pix
The Handbook of Texas Online -
George Washington Paschal
(First husband of Sarah Ridge)
George Washington Paschal's
daughter from his 2nd marriage -
Elizabeth Paschal O'Connor
(The Handbook of Texas Online)
George Washington
Paschal
Genealogy (pictures of Sarah Ridge and G. W. Paschal)
(Begins with Dottie's 13th great grandparents - 1465)
The Cherokee Rolls for Ridge, Watie, Boudinot, Paschal, and McNeir
1900 Galveston Storm described by Paschal McNeir
(Great grandson of Major Ridge)
The
McNeir Family (pictures)
(Begins with Dottie's 5th great grandparents)
New 2024 book
(Released 11/22/2024) about Sarah Ridge Paschal Pix by
Nancy Stanfield Webb. The second book was released on 4/1/2025.
Order
both books here.
Sarah Ridge's brother John Ridge
(1825, age 23)
Portrait by Charles Bird King in Washington
Original at the Smithsonian
The John Ridge Family (pictures) - [including Northrup/Northrop family]
Where John Ridge attended school and was married at Cornwall
Sarah Bird Northrup Ridge Obituary/Mount Comfort Cemetery (pictures)
John Ridge's letter - National Gazette 1831
John Ridge - The Essex Register 1824
New-Bedford Mercury; Date: 01/23/1835; Volume XXVIII; Issue: 29; Page 1 [Sent by Kevin Ladd]
1825 New York Advocate - John Ridge and his marriage to a white woman
John Ridge and His Slaves
Poem by John Ridge 1819
John Ridge - Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, February 2, 1932
John Ridge's daughter Susan Catherine Ridge and Josiah Woodward Washbourne Family (pictures)
John Ridge's daughter Flora Chamberlain Ridge and Dr. William Davis Polson Family (pictures)
New 2023 book (Released 12/19/2023) about John and Sarah Ridge by
Leslie Simmons. Order the book
here.
John Ridge and Sarah Ridge's first cousin Stand Watie
The Stand Watie and Elias Boudinot Family (pictures)
Brig. General Stand Watie Surrendered at Doaksville 1865
Stand Watie's "Iron
Cross" Re-dedication
Park Hill, OK
June 26, 2004
Stand Watie at Pea Ridge
Letter by John Adair Bell and Stand Watie to the Arkansas Gazette on the Murders of the Ridges and Boudinot
Woodall Cemetery
(Charles and Susannah (Watie) Woodall)
Elias Boudinot (born Kilakeena "Buck" Watie -
brother of Stand Watie)
The Stand Watie and Elias Boudinot Family (pictures)
Elias Boudinot: Thoughts on Removal and His Marriage to a White Woman
Where Elias Boudinot attended school and was married at Cornwall
Elias Boudinot's visit to Boston - National Register 1826
1825 New York Advocate - Elias Boudinot and his marriage to a white woman
The Whereabouts of Colonel William Penn Boudinot
The Seven Clans - Wolf, Bird, Paint, Deer, Long Hair (The Twister, Hair
Hanging Down, or Wind), Blue (Panther or Wild Cat),
and White
Potato (Blind Savannah, Bear, or Raccoon)
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TEXAS CHEROKEES
Mount Tabor
Indian Community
(An Indian community south of Kilgore, Texas (Rusk County), where the families of the
signers of the Treaty of New Echota 1835
fled due to the assassination of Major Ridge, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, James
Starr, and others)
Mt. Tabor Indian Cemetery (History and
who is buried there)
(Paul's two-year search of a lost and almost forgotten cemetery)
Mount Tabor Indian Cemetery
(Search ended - cemetery found 2/27/2005)
George Harlan Starr Home at Mount Tabor
Mt. Tabor Indian Cemetery/George Harlan Starr Home
(A Starr studded event on April 9, 2005)
Dottie Ridenour's article on the Mt.
Tabor Cemetery for The Goingsnake Messenger
Email Glenita
None Left Behind:
The Rediscovery of a Native American Cemetery
Goingsnake District Heritage Association
Volume XXII, Number 2, 2005
Mt. Tabor Update 11/03/2005 (includes Mayfield Cemetery)
Jesse Thompson's Genealogy of Mount Tabor Families
The Thompson Cemetery (Texas Cherokees and Oil)
The Asbury Cemetery (Cherokee-Choctaw - more Thompsons)
1937 Interview with 85 year-old W. W. Harnage (Mt. Tabor area (Kilgore), Mayfields, Starrs, Thompsons, Chief Bowles
Destroyed Graveyards in the Mt. Tabor area
"Cherokee Village" at The Handbook of Texas Online is south of the Mt. Tabor Indian Community
"Cherokee War" in Texas (The Handbook of Texas Online)
Cherokee Indians in Texas (The Handbook of Texas Online)
Chief Bowles (includes San Saba and John Dunn Hunter/Fredonian Rebellion and Little Bean's Cherokee Village)
Chief
Bowles
Memorial Ceremony -
July 15, 2006
Chief
Bowles
Memorial Ceremony -
July 14, 2007
Bonus: Creek McIntosh Family and the Falonah Plantation/Drew Cemetery/Refuge Plantation
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