RIDLEYS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
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has been a successful man in every sense; made his fortune but lost heavily
by the late war.
Thomas-Jefferson Ridley' (7), second son of John³ (3), was born in
Belmont, Ala., June 9, 1830; married June 9, 1852, to Sarah L. Smith,
and resides at Liberty, Liberty County, Tex. He was educated at Jack-
son College, Tennessee, but returned to his trade as coach-trimmer and
builder.
Henry-Adam Ridley (2), third son of John (3), was born at Mount
Pleasant, Maury County, Tenn., Jan. 14, 1835; married Sept. 15, 1853, to
Mary Smith, and resides at Jacksonport, Ark. Educated at Jackson Col-
lege, Tennessee. A skillful machinist.
Young-Lafayette Ridley' (2), fourth son of John (3), was born in
Brownsville, Tenn., March 12, 1838; married Feb. 15, 1866, to L. A. Day,
and has issue six children, of whom hereafter. Mr. Ridley received an
academic education, and was licensed to practice law at the age of twenty-
one, but did not avail himself of the advantages of the legal profession
in consequence of the late Rebellion; he enlisted May 6, 1861, and
served through the war as lieutenant in the signal-service of the Con-
federate army. He is now engaged in farming, stock-raising, and general
speculation, at Liberty, Liberty County, Tex.
James-Madison Ridley (5), fifth son of John (3), was born in Ken-
tucky, Sept. 28, 1840; married Aug. 14, 1865, to Medora Powell, and is
now (1879) in New York city. He received a good English education;
left home when young, and being a musician of superior talent and exe-
cution (on any instrument), attached himself to a Spanish orchestra, went
to Cuba, and played in the Ticon Theatre several years. He traveled as
a high-toned gentleman the principal part of his life; has seen much of
the world, and associated with the highest grade of society.
John-Vincent Ridley* (8), sixth son of John³ (3), was born in Mount
Pleasant, Tenn.; married March 2, 1871, to Pamila M. O'Brian, and re-
sides at Hempstead, Tex. He received a thorough English education, and
is an artist and ornamental painter.
Charles-Sumerfield Ridley (1), seventh son of John (3), was born
at Mount Pleasant, Tenn., Jan. 12, 1852; married Nov. 30, 1876, to Helen
F. Crawford, and resides at Hempstead, Waller County, Tex. He re-
ceived a good education, but growing up amid the calamities of war he
had not the opportunities of his elder brothers.
Martha-Jane Ridley (2), second daughter of John³ (3), was born in
Columbus, Maury County, Tenn., Nov. 24, 1832, and died in infancy.
The wives of the brothers before mentioned were taken from the best
families; all educated ladies of the highest type. The result of the fore-
going marriages, for John-Topp Ridley and wife, is forty-nine grandchil-
dren and four great-grandchildren.
Henry-Moses Ridley' (3), eldest son of John (4) and his wife Nan-
cy-Allison Ridley, was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., Jan. 9, 1842;
enlisted in the Twelfth Tennessee Regiment at the commencement of the
war, and fought through the battles of Perryville, Columbus, Shiloh,
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and in the engagement of Resaca. He
had received seven wounds, from all of which he had recovered, till the
battle of Resaca, in which the gallant young soldier, bearing the flag of
his company, fell by a wound through the head, and was buried by Lieut.
Stanford Avins, near the railroad, within the corporation of the village of
