Sarah <I>Barnes</I> Ridgeway

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Sarah Barnes Ridgeway

Birth
Madison County, Kentucky, USA
Death
20 Aug 1873 (aged 85–86)
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Family burial ground on the Ridgeway Farm which is now part of the golf course of the Columbia Club located on the Ridgeway Farm.
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"Sarah (Sally) Barnes, daughter of Shadrack Barnes, was born in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1787. She moved to Missouri with her father in 1808. In 1812 she married William Ridgeway (born 1787) of North Carolina. William Ridgeway enlisted in the U.S. Army on the declaration of War in 1812 and served in the Battle of New Orleans and returned to his family and settled on 320 acres of land adjoining the town of Columbia, Missouri, into a city, being one of the men who was instrumental in bringing the University of Missouri to Columbia. In addtion to rearing his own children, he reared George W. and Laura Ridgeway, the two children of his deceased son, Thomas, and in addition, the seven children of his son, Jefferson, who was killed in the Civil War. He died on June 29, 1870, and she died August 2j0, 1873. William and Sarah were both buried in the family burial ground on the Ridgeway Farm which is now a part of the golf course of the Columbia Country Club located on the Ridgeway Farm."
(SOURCE: Pinckney Glasgow McElwee. Geneology [sic] of Shadrack Barnes of Rowan County, North Carolina, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, Washington D.C., 1957. p22.)
"Sarah (Sally) Barnes, daughter of Shadrack Barnes, was born in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1787. She moved to Missouri with her father in 1808. In 1812 she married William Ridgeway (born 1787) of North Carolina. William Ridgeway enlisted in the U.S. Army on the declaration of War in 1812 and served in the Battle of New Orleans and returned to his family and settled on 320 acres of land adjoining the town of Columbia, Missouri, into a city, being one of the men who was instrumental in bringing the University of Missouri to Columbia. In addtion to rearing his own children, he reared George W. and Laura Ridgeway, the two children of his deceased son, Thomas, and in addition, the seven children of his son, Jefferson, who was killed in the Civil War. He died on June 29, 1870, and she died August 2j0, 1873. William and Sarah were both buried in the family burial ground on the Ridgeway Farm which is now a part of the golf course of the Columbia Country Club located on the Ridgeway Farm."
(SOURCE: Pinckney Glasgow McElwee. Geneology [sic] of Shadrack Barnes of Rowan County, North Carolina, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, Washington D.C., 1957. p22.)


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