Mary Ridenour: Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest

Generation: 1

1.	Mary Ridenour was born 1792 (daughter of John Ridenour and Eve). Notes: ---------- Reference: "One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 40, 109. Mary married Gabriel Connor 3 Jan 1818, , Washington, Maryland. [Group Sheet]

Generation: 2

John Ridenour was born 5 May 1762, , Washington, Maryland (son of Mathias Reitenauer and Eve); died 16 Apr 1801.

Notes:

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Reference:
"One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 40, 44, 57, 109.
"Ancestors Are Forever", 17 September 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 211.
"Genealogy of the Ridenour Family," Ephraim Valintine Ridenour, 1910, p 12.

John — Eve. [Group Sheet]

Eve

Notes:

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Reference:
"One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 40, 44, 57, 109.

Children:

Christina Ridenour was born 9 Aug 1790, , Washington, Maryland.
1. Mary Ridenour was born 1792.
Mathias Ridenour was born 7 Mar 1793, , Maryland.
Elizabeth Ridenour was born 10 Oct 1794, , Washington, Maryland.
Jonathan Ridenour was born 15 Oct 1796, , Washington, Maryland.

Generation: 3

Mathias Reitenauer was born 11 Jan 1727, , Alsace, France; was christened 25 Oct 1725, , Bas-Rhin, France (son of Nicholas Reitenauer, II and Anna Magdalena Arnet); died 14 Feb 1792, , Hagerstown, Maryland.

Notes:

Mathias was too old to carry a gun in the Revolutionary War, but served his
country by furnishing grain for the Army. Mathias took up 3000 acres of land
during his time at Hagerstown, Maryland.
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Reference:
"One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 12, 16, 29, 35, 40,
43, 57, 61, 101.
Ancestral File 4.02, AFN 4RDS-X3.
"Ridenour Family 983-1900s", Boulder Genealogical Society Quarterly, May 1979,
p 72.
Melvin Otho Ridenour Letter, 21 Jan 1995, p 2.

Mathias — Eve. Eve died Oct 1816. [Group Sheet]

Eve died Oct 1816.

Notes:

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Reference:
"One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 12, 16, 29, 35, 40,
43, 57, 61, 101.
"Ancestors Are Forever", 17 September 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 289.

Children:

Nicholas Ridenour was born 15 Aug 1755, , Maryland; died 28 Jan 1823, , Washington, Maryland.
Henry Ridenour was born 7 Oct 1757, , Maryland; died 8 Jan 1823.
Jacob Ridenour was born 11 Jan 1759, , Maryland; died 21 Sep 1827, , Virginia.
2. John Ridenour was born 5 May 1762, , Washington, Maryland; died 16 Apr 1801.
Eva Reitenauer was born 24 Dec 1764, , Washington, Maryland.
Rosina Ridenour was born 30 Mar 1765, , Maryland.
Mathias Ridenour, Jr. was born 11 Mar 1770, , Maryland; died 1803.
Daniel Ridenour was born 5 Oct 1773, , Maryland.
David Ridenour was born 20 Nov 1775, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland; died 14 Aug 1854, Jefferson County, Ohio; was buried Osage Cemetery, Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Generation: 4

Nicholas Reitenauer, II was born Abt 1683, Tieffenbach, Alsace, France (son of Nicholas "Clauß" Reitenauer, I and Susanna Windstein); died 1760, , Maryland.

Other Events:

AFN: 4RDR-BT

Notes:

Conf. 1698 France.

Nicholas Reitenauer and his family arrived in Philadelpia, Pennsylvania on the
ship Robert & Alice 3 September 1739. They came together with 238 other
immigrants from the Palatinates, (78 men, 57 women and 88 children).

The story was told that the Ridenours were close friends of Marie Antoinette and
planned to bring her to their home in America when things became difficult for
her, but the plan failed and she was executed.

In the Land Office, Annapolis, Maryland, August 1743 a patent was issued to
Nicholas Ridenour, of Prince George County, for 100 acres called Ridenours
Pond. According to Certificate of Survey, October 22, it is near the road from
John Thomas to N.E. of a pond about five miles from Conocoheague. Conocoheague
is a village six miles directly west of present Hagerstown, Maryland on a
stream of the same name which rises in Pennsylvania and flows into the Potomac
at Williamsport. This tract, as appears from the patent, was called "Nicholas
Reitenaurer's Pond."

The town of Hagerstown was named for John Jager a brother-in-law of Nicholas
Ridenour.
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Reference:
"One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 23, 28, 57, 60, 61, 63,
76.
"Ancestors Are Forever", 17 September 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 386.
"Ridenour Family 983-1900s", Boulder Genealogical Society Quarterly, May 1979,
p 72.
"Genealogy of the Ridenour Family," Ephraim Valintine Ridenour, 1910, p 6,.
Melvin Otho Ridenour Letter, 21 Jan 1995, p 2.

Nicholas married Anna Magdalena Arnet 1720/1729, , Alsace, France. Anna (daughter of Heinrich Arnet and Amelia Springer) was born Abt 1690; died Bef 1771. [Group Sheet]

Anna Magdalena Arnet was born Abt 1690 (daughter of Heinrich Arnet and Amelia Springer); died Bef 1771.

Other Events:

AFN: 4RDR-C1

Notes:

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Reference:
"One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 23, 28, 57, 60, 61, 63,
76.
"Ancestors Are Forever", 17 September 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 386.
Melvin Otho Ridenour Letter, 21 Jan 1995, p 1, 2.

Children:

Philipp Reitenauer was born 23 Dec 1708, Drulingen, Bas-Rhin, France.
Nicholas Reitenauer, III was born 14 Feb 1711, Drulingen, Bas-Rhin, France; died 1795, , Maryland.
Henry Reitenauer was born 29 Sep 1713, Rexingen, Bas-Rhin, France; died 23 Jul 1781, , Washington, Maryland.
Anna Margretha Reitenauer was born 6 Apr 1716, , Bas-Rhin, France.
Anna Catharina Reitenauer was born 7 Aug 1718, , Bas-Rhin, France.
Daniel Reitenauer was born 6 Mar 1721, , Bas-Rhin, France; died See Notes.
Peter Ridenour was born 21 Jul 1723, , Bas-Rhin, France; died 1786, , Maryland.
4. Mathias Reitenauer was born 11 Jan 1727, , Alsace, France; was christened 25 Oct 1725, , Bas-Rhin, France; died 14 Feb 1792, , Hagerstown, Maryland.
Ann Elisabetha Reitenauer was born 29 Jun 1728, , Bas-Rhin, France.
George Reitenauer was born 1729, , France; died 1756, , Maryland.