Osage Cemetery
Knox Township [Now known as Toronto], Jefferson County, Ohio
Webpage by Paul Ridenour
The webpage includes the gravestones of my 2nd through my 4th great grandparents.
David and Margaret (Wiles) Ridenour's farm in Jefferson
County, Ohio, near the
Pennsylvania line, north of Wheeling, West Virginia. This is also
the church he founded.
Photo sent to me 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 may have
changed its name to Osage
Lutheran Church because this is the Osage Cemetery. Layel
Ridenour's wife Nan, is
talking to John Ridenour (I am assuming John Ridenour of Stone Creek,
Ohio).
Photo sent to me 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 to me 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
There 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. He was not living in Knox Township, Ohio, but he came to visit
relatives, got sick there and died. I am pretty certain he came to visit
my David and Margaret Wiles Ridenour family. I believe his wife was
Elizabeth Easterday and his Will is in the courthouse in Steubenville, Ohio.
David Sr. and Margaret Ridenour have another daughter buried in this cemetery. Her name was Sarah Ridenour and she married J. C. Smith. Some of their children are also buried here including Elizabeth Smith, Luther Smith, Harriett Smith, and John Smith and wife Emma Smith.
Photos below are by Dani Ryan
Siblings Luther and Harriet Ridenour
She was actually born August 16, 1816 and died Nov
4, 1862, thus making her aged 45 years.
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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) 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
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Photo by David Ridenour
Three of David Ridenour Jr.'s daughters married into the Roser family and thee 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]
Samuel Ridenour's second wife was Augusta Bent
John Ridenour and Emma A Bent, a sister of George T.
Ridenour's wife Mary Ellen Bent.
My dad is Robert Ridenour and my younger brother is David Ridenour.
Susannah Ridenour Roser and Barbara Ridenour Unger
Lydia Ridenour Roser
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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 Lincoln, Nebraska, and then Texas.
Mary Ellen (Bent) Ridenour, 1st wife of George Ridenour and my
2nd great grandmother
Nancy Pimela (Ashford) Chapman Ridenour - 2nd wife of George Ridenour
Charles Edward Ridenour - son of George Ridenour
Ridenours buried in
Buffalo Gap Cemetery, Buffalo Gap, Texas
L to R: Nora Vilima Ridenour, Mary Ellen (Bent) Ridenour, Albert Ridenour,
George T. Ridenour, Earl Thurlow Ridenour [Errol Thurlow Ridenour], ca 1880-82 Nebraska
George T. Ridenour, George T.'s
second wife Nancy P. (Ashford) Chapman Ridenour, and George T.'s last three
children - Charles Edward Ridenour born 1882 in Nebraska, Martha Ridenour born
1884 in Nebraska, and George Francis Ridenour was born in Texas in 1888.
Mary Ellen (Bent) Ridenour passed away in 1890 and George T. Ridenour married
Nancy in 1891. Photo in Abilene, TX, 1891 or after.
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Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia
[Section 18 Grave 3638]
George Francis Ridenour, son of George T. Ridenour and
Mary Ellen Bent Ridenour, died in WW I, just a few days before the Signing of
the Armistice.
Private, 359th Infantry, 90th Division, WW I.
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Taylor County War Memorial
Abilene, Texas
George Francis Ridenour - WWI
My brother David Ridenour and family in 2010
George Francis Ridenour - World War I
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Lost Creek Cemetery
Hicksville, Defiance County, Ohio
All photos below 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
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 Hilbert Ridenour - born 11/6/1836
[Civil War, Captain at Gettysburg, Adams
Co. PA, wounded]
Elias Ridenour - born 9/19/1838
[Civil War in Ohio]
Mary A. Ridenour - born 10/5/1840
Isaac M. Ridenour - born 10/19/1842
[Private,
21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company K. Private, 48th Ohio Infantry Regiment,
Company F. Private, Company E, 83rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry]
Susannah Ridenour - born 2/26/1845
Simon Ridenour - born 9/28/1847
Andrew P. Ridenour - born 5/28/1850
Hannah Ridenour - born 2/19/1853
Josiah Ridenour - born 10/1/1857
I am assuming that his brother and my 3rd great grandfather David Ridenour Jr. may have some of the same facial features.
The following children and George and Catharine Ridenour are buried in Lost Creek Cemetery unless stated otherwise:
Catherine Hilbert Ridenour and son Peter Ridenour [Photos by Mary Joan]
Peter Ridenour [Photo by Mary Joan]
Elias Ridenour and wife Delilah Hannah [Photo by Kay Beucler]
Hannah Ridenour who married a Hanna [Photo by Kay Beucler]
Andrew P. Ridenour and his wife Araminta Ewers [Photo by Kay Beucler]
Isaac M. Ridenour - Forest Home Cemetery [Photo by Eric Flint]
Daniel Hilbert Ridenour and wife
Elizabeth Jane Garlow
- Fountain Grove Cemetery [Photo by Mary
Joan]
Layel C. Ridenour [Photo by Kay Beucler].
August 12, 1910, Williams County, Ohio - August 16, 2008, Ithaca, Tompkins
County, New York.
Layel is buried in the Lost Creek Cemetery and he helped me find the graves of my
ancestors via email. We emailed and sent Christmas cards for a few years. He is at
the top of this webpage. I miss him.