Ridgway - Port Dickinson, NY
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member ripraff
N 42° 07.100 W 075° 56.301
18T E 422431 N 4663340
This monument is in Glenwood Cemetery and has a date of 1912 on it, even though the last date of death is 1908.
Waymark Code: WMQ247
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Marine Biologist
Views: 1

This monument has images of a cross with a crown, a robed child holding a book, two sprigs of lilies of the valley, a robed child with an anchor.

This has a couple and their children, even two who are buried elsewhere. It lists where they are buried.

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There is a court case about the money, 3493.81 left by Oscar Ridway, having died without a will. He had been a foreman carpenter with the Erie Railroad Company.
Headstone text (optional):
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Heb. 11:1. Hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stead-fast and which entereth into that within vail. Heb. 6:19. Oscar F. Ridgway, July 23, 1835 Nov. 4, 1908. Mary Prudence Bush his wife Jan. 27, 1841, Apr. 21 1888 Children of O.F. & M. P. Ridgway Grace Jan. 21, 1864 Jan. 15 1865 Theodore David Nov. 4, 1865 May 8, 1892 buried in Spring Forest Cemetery Binghamton, N.Y. Helen Sarah Feb. 12, 1879 Sept. 11 1908 buried with her husband, Fred C. Hart, in Elmira, N.Y.


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