Sarah "Sally" Vincent

1754 - 1836  (81 years)

• Name	Sarah "Sally" Vincent
  Birth	01 May 1754	Sullivan Co. North Carolina (now Tennessee)
  Gender	Female
  d'Aboville #	1.2.1.1.1
  Death	20 Mar 1836	Mill Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
  Person ID	I232339734022	Doby
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Vincent,   b. Bef. 1717, Brunswick County, Virginia, USA
  Mother	Elizabeth Pennal,   b. 1730, Virginia, USA d. Marion, West Virginia, USA
  Marriage	03 Apr 1749	King George County, Virginia   [1]
  Family ID	F1060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George Ridley,   b. Abt 1733, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 29 Nov 1835, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA (Age 102 years)
  Children	1. Vincent Marr Ridley,   b. 26 Jun 1778, Tennessee, USA d. 16 Nov 1852, Mount Pleasant, Maury County, Tennessee, USA (Age 74 years)   2. Thomas Ridley,   b. 16 Feb 1780, Tennessee, USA bur. 16 Nov 1852, Grenada County, Mississippi, USA (Age ~ 72 years)   3. James Ridley,   b. 24 May 1784   bur. 30 Aug 1847 (Age ~ 63 years)   4. Samuel Jones Ridley,   b. 1 Oct 1791   d. 6 Dec 1827 (Age 36 years)
  Family ID	F2888	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  OBITUARY: Her obituary, printed in the Nashville Republican Newspaper on April 7, 1836 further states: (verbatim) "We announced only a few months ago, the death of Capt. George Ridley, aged 98, one of that hardy race of men who first pierced the wilderness west of the Allegheny mountains, and who providentially lingered this side of the grave, almost the last of his brave and adventurous comrades. He left behind him an ancient matron, Mrs. Sarah Ridley, for the extraordinary period of 61 years, the faithful and affectionate companion of his earthly pilgrimage. She died of cancer, on the 20th of last month, in the 87th year of life, (her tombstone says 81 years 10 months and 19 days old when she died) at the residence of her son, James Ridley, in the neighborhood of Nashville. In checkered lots of life, we seldom see the matrimonial chain drawn out to so great a length; and less frequent can we record the fact, that the lengthened chain had lost none of its original strength.. In the lives of this venerated couple we have a memorable example left to us. They belonged to that primitive generation of people, who neither value, or give countenance to the fashions, extravagancies or nonsense of the world. Drawing their precepts from nature's school- - they practiced none of the affectations of high life. He loved her for the homely virtues of conjugal fidelity, and domestic industry and she repaid his confidence by never abusing it. When, at so early an age, she was forced to give up the rude but substantial comforts to which she had been used to, and together with these, the cherished endearments of friends and relatives, and to follow her husband to distant and unhospitable wilds, perchance to contend for food with the beasts of the forest, she cheerfully obeyed. In a warlike and uncultivated wilderness, doomed to suffer dangers, and privations that tried the courage of the boldest, she mingled the brightest virtues of her sex with the heroism of a soldier - while she administered the tender duties of her household and never sank under a woman's fears."

  
  

• Sources

  [S717051514] Dodd, Jordan, Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).