Willie Mae ('May' on the marker, and her given name was probably 'Mary') Doyle Ridgely was my Great Grandmother. She was born in rural Maryland and died in childbirth in Harrisonville, Maryland. She had two daughters: Mary and Ida Lurene, but something went terribly wrong with the birth of her twin boys: James William (lived a little over a month and was buried beside of her using this same marker) and a son with no name who was buried still inside of her. She and James William Ridgely, her husband, lived on a small farm which was later flooded when the dam was put in to make Liberty Lake.
Pap Ridgely re-married Evaline Hobbs, but blamed himself for his first wife's untimely death since he had been warned that another pregnancy would probably kill her. It did -- and he pretty much drank himself to death after that.
My father only remembers occasional visits by Pap Ridgely and he came by horse and buggy -- without his second wife when he visited the household of George and Ida Lurene Ridgely Davis. It's pretty evident that he really loved Willie Mae and he had planned to live a long and fruitful life as farmer and wife. This, however, was not to be and as a consequence, she is buried here with her unborn son and Richard Warren Thompson's family -- but Pap Ridgely's grave has yet to be found (almost certainly not here with her).
Pap Ridgely re-married Evaline Hobbs, but blamed himself for his first wife's untimely death since he had been warned that another pregnancy would probably kill her. It did -- and he pretty much drank himself to death after that.
My father only remembers occasional visits by Pap Ridgely and he came by horse and buggy -- without his second wife when he visited the household of George and Ida Lurene Ridgely Davis. It's pretty evident that he really loved Willie Mae and he had planned to live a long and fruitful life as farmer and wife. This, however, was not to be and as a consequence, she is buried here with her unborn son and Richard Warren Thompson's family -- but Pap Ridgely's grave has yet to be found (almost certainly not here with her).
Willie Mae ('May' on the marker, and her given name was probably 'Mary') Doyle Ridgely was my Great Grandmother. She was born in rural Maryland and died in childbirth in Harrisonville, Maryland. She had two daughters: Mary and Ida Lurene, but something went terribly wrong with the birth of her twin boys: James William (lived a little over a month and was buried beside of her using this same marker) and a son with no name who was buried still inside of her. She and James William Ridgely, her husband, lived on a small farm which was later flooded when the dam was put in to make Liberty Lake.
Pap Ridgely re-married Evaline Hobbs, but blamed himself for his first wife's untimely death since he had been warned that another pregnancy would probably kill her. It did -- and he pretty much drank himself to death after that.
My father only remembers occasional visits by Pap Ridgely and he came by horse and buggy -- without his second wife when he visited the household of George and Ida Lurene Ridgely Davis. It's pretty evident that he really loved Willie Mae and he had planned to live a long and fruitful life as farmer and wife. This, however, was not to be and as a consequence, she is buried here with her unborn son and Richard Warren Thompson's family -- but Pap Ridgely's grave has yet to be found (almost certainly not here with her).
Pap Ridgely re-married Evaline Hobbs, but blamed himself for his first wife's untimely death since he had been warned that another pregnancy would probably kill her. It did -- and he pretty much drank himself to death after that.
My father only remembers occasional visits by Pap Ridgely and he came by horse and buggy -- without his second wife when he visited the household of George and Ida Lurene Ridgely Davis. It's pretty evident that he really loved Willie Mae and he had planned to live a long and fruitful life as farmer and wife. This, however, was not to be and as a consequence, she is buried here with her unborn son and Richard Warren Thompson's family -- but Pap Ridgely's grave has yet to be found (almost certainly not here with her).
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