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Boonie Doon Plantation
Address: Southhampton County, VA
Date: 1999 ca.
The dilapidated Bonnie Doon plantation house in Southhampton County, Va., from which Cornelius Ridley ran away in 1862.
Children of Cornelius and Martha Jane Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
Birth records from the Ridley family bible, with information about George Washington Ridley, Rachel Ann Ridley, William Henry Ridley, Rosa Ann Ridley, and Bessie L. Nicholson.
Children of Cornelius and Martha Jane Ridley, and others
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
Birth records from family bible, with information about George Washington Ridley, Rachel Ann Ridley, William Henry Ridley, Rosa Ann Ridley, Bessie L. Nicholson, Alma Ridley White, Maud Ray Ridley, Everett Cornelius White, Casper Miller White, Swithin…
Colored Officers Training Program
Address: Fort Des Moines (Iowa)
Date: 1917 ca.
Photographed at the Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School.
Cornelius and Martha Jane Ridley, Marriage certificate
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1883/02/17
The two remarried on February 17, 1883 in Media, as their slave marriage in Virginia did not have legal status.
Cornelius and Martha Jane Ridley's house
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
They purchased their home at 308 North Olive Street in 1872, 10 years or so after escaping Virginia. Their descendants continued to live in the house until about 1972, when it was sold and torn down.
Cornelius Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
Born a slave on Bonnie Doon Plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, he lived from 1839-1922. His father, Col. Thomas Ridley III, owned the plantation. Cornelius never knew his mother, and he ran away by himself in the spring of 1861. He made his…
Cornelius Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
Pictured here driving a mule-drawn delivery wagon for Hawley and Snowden's hardware store on State Street.
George A. Philips
Address: not known
Date: not known
Josepha Philips's father was a white New Yorker with businesses in Saint Croix.
George Washington Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890 ca.
Pictured with son Eddie and daughter Lily. George escaped slavery as a child with his mother, Martha Jane Parham, his sister Rachel, and his uncle, Andison Parham.
History of the Mt. Zion Lodge
Address: Media, Pa.
Date: 1920 ca.
History of the Mt. Zion Lodge in Media, Pa. written by Cornelius Ridley.
Josepha Costancia Philips Ridley
Address: Washington, D.C.
Date: 1889 ca.
Portrait when she was about age 18. She was born in St. Croix to a local laundress and George A. Philips, a wealthy white New Yorker who owned businesses and plantations in the West Indies. She was educated and cared for in St. Croix while her father…
Martha Jane Parham
Address: not known
Date: 1858 ca.
She lived from 1840 to 1919. She escaped from John Y. Mason's Fortsville Plantation with two of her children and her brother Andison Parham and his daughter. They fled to the Union army as it passed Fortsville plantation on the way to Petersburg in…
Martha Jane Parham Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
She rejoined her husband Cornelius Ridley in Media after escaping from Virginia in 1864.
Maud Ray Ridley
Address: Washington D.C.
Date: 1908
Postcard portrait taken at age 17 and addressed to her father. Text on reverse: "Taken July 22, 1908, Age 17 years 2 months 22 days. Your Only Child, Maud."
Maud Ray Ridley
Address: Philadelphia, Pa
Date: 1911 ca.
Portrait as a young woman seated, wearing a hat and traveling clothes.
