John Ridge (son of John Ridge and Susannah Catherine Wickett)5, 5 was born 18035, 5, and died 22 Jun 1839 in Delaware Dist, OK, USA5, 5. He married Sarah Bird Northrop on 27 Jan 1824 in Cornwall, CT.
Includes NotesNotes for John Ridge:
John was stabbed to death in front of his wife and children by a group of masked Cherokees at the same hour that his father, Major Ridge, and his cousin, Elias Boudinot, were also being assassinated at other locations. The alleged murder weapon is on display in a museum in OK.
More About John Ridge:
Census: 1835, Oostenollee River, Floyd Co, GA.
Comment 1: 1835, Smith Resolution: Coosawatte, voted Aye; Pro-Treaty.
Comment 2: 29 Dec 1835, Signer of Treaty of New Echota.
Education 1: 12 Nov 1810, Spring Place Mission School.
Education 2: 14 May 1817, Brainerd Mission.
Education 3: 1818, Cornwall, CT.
Emigration: 1837, Probibly with Elias Boudinot and their families.
Nationality: 1836, Valuations: Cherokee Co, Al, #44 Full Blood, Cherokee.
More About John Ridge and Sarah Bird Northrop:
Marriage: 27 Jan 1824, Cornwall, CT.
Children of John Ridge and Sarah Bird Northrop are: i.Aeneas E Ridge, b. 1833, Coo See Watie, GA, USA5, d. 1859, Fayetteville, AR, USA5.
ii.Andrew Jackson Ridge, b. 19 Feb 1835, Coo See Watie, GA, USA5, d. 17 Aug 1900, Berkeley, Alameda, CA, USA5.
iii.Susan Catherine Ridge, b. 1830, Coo See Watie, GA, USA5, d. 1870, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory5.
iv.John Rollin Ridge, b. 19 Mar 1821, Rome, GA, USA5, d. 05 Oct 1867, Grass Valley, Nevada, CA, USA5.
v.Herman Daggett Ridge, b. 1833, Coo See Watie, GA, USA5, d. 08 Nov 1863.
vi.Darsie Ridgegauntlet Ridge.
vii.Nancy Northrup Ridge.
viii.Jessica Bird Ridge.
ix.Clarinda Ridge, b. 1828.
x.Flora Chamberlin Ridge, b. 1838, Delaware Dist. Indian Territory5, d. 16 Aug 1876.
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