John Chezem was born at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1760, probably the son of Edward Cheeseman. He served in the Maryland militia during the Revolutionary War. He married 1) Mrs. Melvin (nee Price). They had six children, 1795-1804. He married 2) Lydia Fiddleman in 1806 in Delaware. They had three children, 1806-1810. He married 3) Mary Percen Turner, widow of Daniel Chezem. They had a son born in 1815. He married 4) Comfort Morris in 1819. They had eight...

Richard Ridgway was born in England about 1650. He and his wife, Elizabeth came to America in July, 1679 and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania.

John Ridgway was born in England in 1786, the son of Caliph Ridgway. He immigrated to the United States, settled first in Virginia, and then migrated to Kentucky. He married Margaret Crum in 1807, near Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. They had eleven children, 1808-1824, born in Breckenbridge, Hardin, and Ohio Counties, Kentucky. He died in 1827 in Harrison County, Indiana. Descendants listed lived in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and elsewhere....

Autobiography of Mary R. (Ridgeway) Rea, daughter of Andrew Ridgeway, a sea captain on a merchant vessel trading between Liverpool and Philadelphia. In 1852 she married James A. Rea in Philadelphia, and settled in Fairfield, Iowa. In 1862, they made a "sinuous trek" over the old Oregon trail in a covered wagon, and the description of this trek occupies most of the autobiography. They settled on land at Griffin Gulch near Auburn, Oregon, and in 1892...

Velma Pearl Allen (1902-1990), daughter of Robert Edward Allen (1879-1958) and Mary Ellen Lewis (1880-1960), was born in Springtown, Arksnsas. She married Chester Leland Davison (1901-1991), son of Charles Condus Davison (1853-1917) and Florence Evelyn Ridgeway (1864-1936), in 1922 in Olathe, Kansas. They both died in Kansas City, Missouri. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia.