Yolo County Biographies


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JAMES RIDLEY
 
            JAMES RIDLEY, a farmer north of Black�s, Yolo County, was born May 
27, 1818, in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, a son of William and Margaret (Maxwell) 
Ridley, natives also of that State.  At the age of sixteen years he went to 
Alabama, and resided there until 1835, when he moved to the northern part of 
Missouri.  In 1861 he came with ox teams to California, locating immediately in 
Yolo County and renting land of Charles Barnes, the first year, and the next 
year (1863) he purchased the place where he now resides, three miles north of 
Black�s.  It embraces 163 acres of excellent land.
            He was married in 1835 to Miss Louisa Shumate, a native of 
Tennessee.  Their ten children are:  James T., Thomas, William, Margaret, 
Louisa, Francis, Mary, Larate, Ella and Susie.
 
Source:  Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis 
Publishing Co. , 1891
Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson, August 2004  �