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RIDLEYS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
at the battle of New Orleans. He was a farmer in Williamson County,
Tenn.
George-Washington Ridley' (3), second son of Beverly2 (1), was
born in Davidson County, Tenn., July 7, 1797; married and had issue
several children, of whom hereafter. He was a specimen of rare genius;
a native type of indomitable self-will; a man of great boldness and a
stranger to all earthly fear. He enlisted under Capt. Tapley B. An-
drews and Col. Thomas Williamson in the Second Tennesee Mounted
Gun-men, commanded by Gen. Andrew Jackson, against the Seminole
Indians. At the battle of Missisook, east Florida, April 1, 1818, he
was wounded five times at one firing; once on the foot, once on the upper
lip, and three times in the lower part of the abdomen, the bullets passing
directly through him. He was mustered out as wounded, for a furlough,
June 30, 1818, placed on board a vessel at Fort St. Mark, conveyed to New
Orleans, and thence up the Cumberland River to Nashville. One of his
legs was contracted an inch and a half in consequence of wounds; and he
was ever afterwards subject to fits, so that he could only perform the
lighter kinds of labor. In the presidential campaign between Andrew
Jackson and John Q. Adams in 1824-5, he was warmly and actively in
favor of the former; and after the election of Mr. Adams by the House
of Representatives, his disappointment was so great that he burned his
pension certificate, with a decided refusal to draw his annuity under the
administration of President Adams; but, after the election of General
Jackson in 1828-9, he obtained a new certificate and had his pension con-
tinued. He was a corporal in the expedition of 1818. His residence in
1866 was in Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn. During the late Rebel-
lion he remained loyal to the Union. He died Oct. 3, 1873, leaving de-
scendants who resemble him.
Robert Ridley³ (2), third son of Beverly² (1), was born in Davidson
County, Tenn., April 6, 1799; married Sally Houston, and had issue sev-
eral children, of whom hereafter He removed to the State of Missis-
sippi; some say he subsequently settled in Alabama, and died there.
Thomas-Jefferson Ridley (2), fourth son of Beverly2 (1), was born
in Davidson County, Tenn., Oct. 25, 1804; married and died issueless.
No other information.
Betsey Ridley (2), eldest daughter of Beverly² (1), was born in Da-
vidson County, Tenn., March 27, 1787; was married to John Weller, and
had a son who married his cousin, a lady noted for her beauty.
Nancy Ridley (1), second daughter of Beverly (1), was born in Da-
vidson County, Tenn., March 13, 1789; was married to John Ellison, a
silversmith, of Nashville, Tenn., who was the father of a son and daugh-
ter; the latter was married to the distinguished Methodist divine, Rev. A.
L. P. Green, who has a son of preaching talent.
Polly Ridley (1), third daughter of Beverly² (1), was born in David-
son County, Tenn., Feb. 5, 1791; never married.
Rebecca Ridley' (1), fourth daughter of Beverly2 (1), was born in Da-
vidson County, Tenn., Aug. 4, 1795; was married to Marshall Jimmerson,
who lived and died in Robertson County, Tenn., leaving, with other issue,
Dr. Samuel Jimmerson, of Edgefield City, an adjunct of Nashville.
Patsey Ridley (2), fifth daughter of Beverly² (1), was born in Da-
vidson County, Tenn., March 14, 1801; was married to William Holt, of
Williamson County, and became the mother of several highly respectable
children.
