Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Who Do I think I Am? Wow! Part 77

JAMES ALLEN4 RIDLEY (ASA ELISHA was born Sep 1856 in , Jackson, Al, and died 10 May 1931 in Thompson, McDuffie Co, Ga. He married (1) NANCY RIDDLE. She was born Aft. 1856, and died Unknown. He married (2) ELIZA B. HAWK 19 Dec 1879, daughter of JOHN HAWK and NIAGRA MCMAHAN. She was born 19 Jan 1856 in , , Al, and died 12 Sep 1922 in Stevenson, Jackson, Al.

Notes for JAMES ALLEN RIDLEY:
Tradition is James Allen married Nancy Riddle after the death of Eliza. However, this marriage didn't last long. Nancy's children ran James Allen off.
Also family tradition is James Allen had visited his daughter in Harlem, Georgia, and was returning home to Alabama on the bus. When the bus stopped in Thompson, Georgia, James was dead.
-Charlotte Ridley Traylor in her RIDLEY book.

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