- John Ridpath was born about 1737 possibly at Berwick-upon-Tweed, England and died 13 October 1777 at Germantown, Pennsylvania from wounds sustained during the Battle of Germantown. He married before 1768 at New York, New York, Charlotte Bennett who died before 1777. They had one son: James.
- James Ridpath was born 9 June 1768 at Montgomery County, Virginia and died February 1860 at Pulaski County, Virginia. He married 24 June 1792 at Rockbridge County, Virginia, Elizabeth Cox, born 28 August 1768 at Lexington Virginia and died about 1864 in Pulaski County. They had twelve children: Mary (Polly), Elizabeth (Betsey), Charlotte, John, Alanson, Martha G. (Patty), Catherine B. (Patsy), James, Christilla, Rachel, Mahlon, and Matilda.
- John Ridpath was born 19 June 1798 at Snowville, Virginia and died 13 October 1879 at Boone County, Iowa. He married 30 March 1814 at Snowville, Mary (Polly) Cox, born 1 June 1795 Rockbridge County, Virginia and died 10 March 1857 in Putnam County, Indiana. John and Mary divorced before 1847 when John married secondly, 15 June 1847 at Green Castle, Indiana, Elizabeth Mary Hogg, born about 1798 in Virginia and died before 1851 at Boone County, Iowa. John married for a third time 25 September 1851 at Boone County, Mary Jane Bird, born 20 April 1819 at Putnam County, Indiana and died 22 August 1898 at Boone County. By his first wife John had thirteen children: Abraham, Elizabeth (Betsey), Charlotte B., James B., John Wesley, Frances, Alanson, Hiram S., Matilda, Mary Ann, Henrietta, Jane and Anderson Byers. By his third wife, John had an additional seven children: Virginia, Frances, Frances Ann, James Buchanan, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George McClellen.
- John Wesley Ridpath was born 31 May 1821 in Montgomery County, Virginia and died 23 March 1907 in Topeka, Kansas. He married 27 October 1841 at Green Castle, Indiana, Duranda Straughn, born 20 May 1822 in Shelby County, Kentucky and died 27 December 1888 at Independence, Missouri, daughter of John Corbin and Obedience (Scott) Straughn. John and Duranda had thirteen children: Ceramirus, Erasmus Oscar, Richard Jerome, Obedience Ann, Martha Jane, Thomas William, Sarah Elizabeth, John Clark, Charlotta Josephine, Simon Peter, Mary Katherine, David Sanford, and Daniel Burton.
- Daniel Burton Ridpath was born 2 February 1867 at Red Rock, Iowa and died 5 June 1951 at Dallas, Texas. He married on 24 December 1889, at Kansas City, Missouri, Vida Hamlin Clarkson, born 23 September 1873 at Stephens Point, Wisconsin and died 13 June 1943 at Dallas, Texas, daughter of Charles and Julia Berkley (Brown) Clarkson. Daniel had five children: Adella Vidanna, Marie Juliette, John Wesley, Louise Straughn, and Virginia Marguerite.
- John Wesley Ridpath (II), was born 13 August 1894 at Benton, Missouri and died 29 June 1971 at San Diego, California. He married 5 October 1918 at Norman, Oklahoma, Nell Carmon, born 30 September 1896 at Norman and died 14 June 1993 at Paradise, California, daughter of James Marion and Elizabeth J. (Hall) Carmon. They had three children: Eugene Wesley, Doris Carmon, and Jack.
- Doris Carmon Ridpath, was born 31 October 1921 in Stillwater, Oklahoma and died 1 June 2012 in San Francisco, California. She married at San Francisco on 17 February 1944, Edmund Berrigan Clark, born 1 March 1921 at Duncan, Oklahoma and died 27 March 2003 at San Francisco, son of William Lynn and Ruth (Berrigan) Clark. They had two children: Michael Berrigan and Johanna Katherine.
Sources:
Boston Evening Transcript July 13, 1932 (also 24 Mar and 6 May 1932).
U.S. Census for 1850, Virginia, Pulaski Co., 48th District, page #509.
Death in U.S. Mortality Schedule for 1860 in Virginia (James Ridpath).
U.S. Census for 1860, Virginia, Pulaski Co., Western District, Page #772.
"A Brief of Wills and Marriages in Montgomery and Fincastle Counties, Virginia, 1733-1831" by Anne Lowry Worrell (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1976), p. 33.
"Rockbridge County Marriages 1778-1850" by Dorthie and Edwin C. Kirkpatrick (Iberian Publishing, Athens GA, 1985), p. 179.
Putnam County, Indiana Early Marriage Records 1822-1837 Compiled by Charles M. Franklin (Ye Old Genealogie Shoppe, Indianapolis, IN, 1982) pp. 46 and 38.
Probate #381 in Boone County, Iowa, dated 13 Oct 1879. Died intestate, no heirs mentioned. (John Ridpath).
1850 U.S. Census in Indiana, Putnam County, Marion Township.
1860 U.S. Census in Iowa, Boone County, Dodge Township, Page 43.
1870 U.S. Census in Iowa, Boone County, Dodge Township, Page 26-27.
Death in 1880 Mortality Census for Iowa. (John Ridpath).
Kansas City Star of 28 December 1888, page 1.
1860 census in Mahaska County, IA.
1870 Census in Missouri, Clinton Co.
1880 census in Atlantic, Cass Co., IA, named spelled Ridpoth, ED #32, Page 58.
1900 census in Boone County, IA, ED #7, Sheet, #4.
Marriage License from Jackson County, Missouri as filed on 24 Dec 1889.
1920 U.S. Census in Carter Co., Oklahoma.
1910 U.S. Census in Muskogee Co. Oklahoma.
1900 U.S. Census in St. Louis, Missouri.
"The Ancestry and Posterity of Matthew Clarkson 1664-1702" compiled by J. Robert T. Craine and edited by Harry W. Hazard (published by Craine, 1971).
"Who's Who in Government" (Chicago, Marquis) First ed. 1972-3, 2nd ed. 1975-6.
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