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Note: Parents: Abraham and Patience (Tibbetts) Ridlen, was born November 27, 1786 (B.R.); August 2, 1786 (Ridlen Book); or November 27, 1775 (T.S.). the federal census of Decatur County, Indiana, 1850 shows his age to be 64 and Sarah, his wife, to be 60. (This bears out the dates of 1786 for him and 1790 for her.) He was born at Pepperelborough, Massachusetts, now Saco, Maine and died in Marion County, Iowa, November 21, 1853 and is buried in the old Ridlen cemetery, Clay T.S., Section 26, near where he had lived. Recently the stones from this cemetery were removed to the Ridlen Cemetery near Knoxville, so that the present owner could till the land. He married Sarah Wright, January 31, 1811, in Clermont County, Ohio. She was born March 7, 1790, in Maryland, died April 29, 1864 (according to her tombstone, in her 74th year) and is buried beside her husband. Her parents are to Maine. Timothy Tibbetts Ridlen emigrated, in 1800, with his parents, to Clermont County, Ohio. Somewhere before 1820, they had moved to Dearborne County, Indiana. There they are listed in the 1820 census as Timothy T. Ridlen and wife and five small children. They are shown in the 1830 census of Decatur County, Indiana, with nine children. The 1840 census shows them still in Decatur County, with most of the children gone. The 1850 census gives his name as Timothy Ridalle(sic), age 64, male, farmer, and Sarah, 60, daughter Ruth, 10, with a Sarah A. Rogers, 12 with them. Before too long, they moved on to Marion County, Iowa. Timothy had served, along with several of his brothers, in the War of 1812. B.R. = Bible Record Ridlen Book = "History of the Ancient Ryedales of the families Riddell, Riddle, Ridlon, Ridley, etc., published at Manchester, New Hampshire in 1884 T.S. = Tombstone Source: Ridlens and Allied Families; Rose E. LaMon, Gateway Press, Inc., 1982 Second Note Source: Timothy Tibbets Ridlen, eldest child of (3) Abraham Redlon. He was born in Pepperelborough, now Saco, Maine, on August 2, 1786, died 1855 in Marion County (adjoining Shelby County) Indiana. He married in 1810 Sarah Wright who was born in 1790 in Maryland. He was taken by his parents to Ohio in 1800. He settled in Clermont County, Ohio, where he carried on farming for many years. When crossing the Allegheny Mountains while on the way from New England to Ohio, he was thrown from a young horse he was riding and sustained a bad fracture of the arm. No physician was available and the men and women reduced the arm to as near natural position as they could, bound splints to it and proceeded on their way. It was not properly united, and the movements of the horse gave him so much pain he was placed in a carriage but suffered extremely the balance of the journey. Timothy and his brother changed their names to Ridlen while on this trip West He may have had service in the War of 1812. He was of medium height, well built, very strong, hair brown and complexion ruddy. He was a Christian, a good farmer and something of a mechanic. He was possessed with a goodly share of the Redlon oddity. The 1856 census for Clay Twp., Marion County, Iowa shows, "Sarah Ridlen", 66, widow, born Maryland, in the William Ridlen family. Name was changed from Redlon to Ridlen in 1800
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