582
RIDLON FAMILY PORTRAITS.
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Judith, William, Eunice, Matthias, and Samuel; of the children of Jacob Ridlon,
there are portraits of Isaac and Betsey (Mrs. Mary (Ridlon) Davis was living a
few years ago in Gorham, Me., but has not consented to have her likeness taken);
of the children of Abraham Ridlon, of Ohio, there are portraits of Stephen, Sam-
uel, Ruth, Patience, John, Rachel, and Nicholas. One of these has been taken, —
that of Patience (Ridlon) Wells, since the frame was made, and when the subject
was ninety-four years old; this will be placed in a new and larger frame with the
other twenty-one, if three more of the same family-connection can be found to
place with it. This set of portraits cost me about $80.00. The following table
shows the order in which the portraits stand:
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1
2
3
5
6
7
POLLY
THOMAS
JUDITH
EUNICE
WILLIAM
MATTHIAS
SAMUEL
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
Aged 94.
Aged 94.
Aged 98.
Aged 94.
Aged 93.
RIDLON.
Aged 90.
RIDLON.
Aged 88.
8
9
10
11
RUTH
STEPHEN
SAMUEL
JOHN
12
RACHEL
13
NICHOLAS
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
Aged 84.
Aged 70.
Aged 82.
Aged 77.
Aged 82.
RIDLON.
Aged 75.
15
16
JOSEPH
ROBERT
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
17
SALLY
RIDLON.
18
MARY
RIDLON.
19
RACHEL
RIDLON.
20
LYDIA
RIDLON.
Aged 76. Aged 78.
Aged 75.
Aged 80.
Aged 63.
Aged 74.
14
ISAAC
RIDLON.
Aged 82.
21
BETSEY
RIDLON.
Aged 74.
I have preserved the maiden-names of the women, and the reader is referred to
the genealogy of the several families for particulars. The ages given above do not
refer to the time the pictures were taken, but the respective ages of the originals
as near as known at the time of death, and of those who still survive (1883).
Since the above-mentioned collection of portraits were finished I have procured
twenty-eight others of Ridlons of Saco, Buxton, Limerick, and eastern Maine,
which an artist is now finishing uniformly in India ink; these will be framed simi-
larly to the others in four rows, seven in each row, and will stand arranged as
follows:
1
PATIENCE
DANIEL
+
POLLY
NATHANIEL
2
3
SALLY
5
6
RICHARD
7
EDMUND
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
Aged 80.
Aged 90.
Aged 84.
Aged 79.
Aged 85.
RIDLON.
Aged 75.
RIDLON.
Aged 76.
8
9
10
ALEXANDER
PETER
RUHAMA
11
MARTHA
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
RIDLON.
Aged 75.
Aged 72.
Aged 78.
Aged 76.
12
REV.
EBENEZER
REDLON.
13
SALLY
RIDLON.
Aged-.
Aged 74.
15
16
MARY
JANE
17
WILLIAM
18
JONATHAN
REDLON.
REDLON.
RIDLON.
Aged 84.
Aged 75.
Aged 70 ?
RIDLEY.
Aged 83.
19
JONATHAN
RIDLON.
Aged 69.
20
MARY
RIDLON.
Aged 74.
14
SARAH
REDLON.
Aged 84.
21
MATTHIAS
RIDLEY.
Aged 80.
25
OLIVE S.
RIDLON.
Aged 72.
26
SARAH A.
RIDLON.
Aged 67.
27
JAMES M.
REDLON.
Aged 74.
82
SELECTA
REDLON.
Aged 80.
22
HUMPHREY
RIDLON.
Aged 75.
23
JOHN
RIDLON.
Aged 79.
24
PATIENCE
RIDLON.
Aged 70.
The above were not all of the fourth generation, as will be seen by reference to
the genealogies in this book, but some of them were and are advanced in life, and
I have filled out the spaces in this collection with nineteen of the fifth generation.
I have several hundred additional likenesses of the numerous families of Redlons,
Ridlons, and Ridleys, and at some future day may have them copied in India ink
for frames. I have also a fine collection of portraits and photographs of the Rid-
ley family in England, some of them copied from paintings made more than three
hundred years ago; the most ancient of these I have had copied nearly life-size in
crayon for frames for my own home.
