Sarah Clinton Ridgely

Brief Life History of Sarah Clinton

When Sarah Clinton Ridgely was born on 26 October 1903, in Louisiana, United States, her father, George Brown Ridgely, was 47 and her mother, Alleane F. Clinton, was 38. She married Roland Nesbit Smoot on 30 March 1923, in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Coronado, San Diego, California, United States in 1940 and Norfolk, Virginia, United States in 1950. She died in February 1987, in Laguna Hills, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Roland Nesbit Smoot
1901–1984
Sarah Clinton Ridgely
1903–1987
Marriage: 30 March 1923
Roland Smoot
1925–2019
Sally Doone Smoot
1928–2003

Sources (13)

  • Sally R Smoot, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Sally Ridgely Smoot, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
  • Sarah Clinton Ridgely in entry for Roland Nesbitt Smoot, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"

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World Events (8)

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1907 · Pike's Market

Pike’s Market is one of the oldest still working farmer’s markets in the US. It is located in Seattle’s central business district, just north of Belltown , and southwest of central waterfront and Elliott Bay. One of the attractions there is the gum wall. 

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English (Berkshire and Buckinghamshire): variant of Ridgley . This surname is now rare in Britain.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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