BIO:  RIDGWAY, James P. s/o Benjamin & Catharine (Trunnel) Ridgway

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com    (Diana Flynn)

RIDGWAY,   TRUNNEL,   SINCLAIR,   CRAWFORD

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
HADDON TWP.
PAGE 757
JAMES P. RIDGWAY was born on the farm where he now lives
January 28, 1838, one of eight children born to Benjamin and
Catharine (Trunnel) Ridgway, who came from Kentucky in an
early day, and lived in Sullivan County till their deaths.  Our
subject was raised to farming, and has followed that all his life.
October 26, 1862, he married Vandillia A. Sinclair, born January
27, 1840,daughter of John and Maria (Crawford) Sinclair, and
three children have been born to them--Ara B., July 28, 1864;
George  A., October 20, 1868;  Charles H., August 17, 1870.
Mr. Ridgway ownes 220 acres of fine land, and has been quite
successful in farming.  He and wife and daughter are members
of the Christian Church at Shaker Prairie, near where they live,
and he is a Democrat.  In 1870, Mr. Ridgway moved to Knox
County, where he remained five years, and then returned to
Sullivan County and to his present place.
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