When Emma Fannie Ridge was born on 18 December 1871, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Hiram L. Ridge, was 30 and her mother, Lourena Jones, was 26. She married Minor William Johnson on 23 May 1892, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She died on 28 September 1919, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 47.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English:
topographic name for someone who lived on or by a ridge, Middle English rigge (Old English hrycg) ‘ridge’, or a habitational name from any of the minor places so named. It is synonymous with West Midlands Rudge and northern Rigg . The surname is also fairly common in Ireland, in County Galway, having been taken to Connacht in the early 17th century. The name is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire; iomaire being modern Irish for ‘ridge’. Compare Attridge .
sometimes perhaps a variant of Rich with voicing of the formerly medial consonant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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