I happened across this site as I was searching for my father's navy record. I completed a graduate school project that required me to complete a family genogram. Anything sound farmiliar? 1698 Magnus Redlon paternal great- great great- great- great- great grandfather born in Scotland, on the Shetland Island 1717 Magnus Redlon immigrates to the Americas and settles in the town of York, then the providence of Massachusetts, now the state of Maine. His descendents migrated from this area to Ohio, Pennsylvania, then to Indiana. My direct descendents settling in Illinois The spelling of Ridlon changed to Ridlen over the years after moving west. 1725 Mathias Redlon born, paternal great-great great-great-great grandfather. 1762 Abraham Redlon born, paternal great- great great-great grandfather 1788 Stephen Ridlen Born, paternal great-great -great grandfather 1826 James Belvile Ridlen born (6th of 8 children). Paternal great-great grandfather, Marries Sarah Ann Hamilton, descendent of Alexander Hamilton. 1873 James Ridlen born (10th of 10 children) my paternal great-grandfather. When my father and his older brother James, asked their grandfather about their family history or their ethnic heritage, he would tell them that there were "too many years between them and us". He instead told them he would rather talk about the cattle and horse rustlers that were in their family. My uncle wasn't sure if he was telling the truth or not. His first wife Virginia dies in 1931, he later marries Dorothy Gruver, she being 20 and he 60! It would be Dorothy whom became the historian for the Ridlen family. She would remain with and care for her husband until his death in 1964. She remained close to the family after he died. She wrote my father quite often after he settled here in the East. 1896 Herman Ridlen born (2nd of 4 children). My paternal grandfather. Served in the Army during WW I. He received a Purple Heart, as a result of being temporary blinded from exposure to mustard gas. After discharge he taught physics he later went to work for Western Electric. 1931 John Robert Ridlen born. 1955 John R. Ridlen Jr. born 1957. James M. Ridlen born. 1964 Patricia Ann Ridlen born. 1971 Kelli Lee Ridlen born. 1977. 1992 Three months after the birth of my son, the first grandson for my father, John Robert Ridlen Dies after a brief illness at the age of 61. He would not see his namesake, my brother’s son born or the wedding of his youngest daughter or the birth of her son.
Marc Ridlen - 08/04/00 06:27:48
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