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From: "mstephen" <>
Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD] 1850 Slave Schedule - Jesse Riddlesbarger
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:53:38 -0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
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Traci

Thank you, I would very much like to have the pages of the 1840 and 1850
slave schedules regarding Jesse Riddlesbarger. I do have the federal
censuses for 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. You mentioned that Jesse
seems to have moved around a bit after 1863 - I have him in St. Louis, then
his death in Fayette in 1883. Have you other "stops along the way"? I know
he started out in Fayette, where he was a gunsmith. I did find the "chapter
3" by Kim Riddlesbarger, and using that as a starting point have been able
to track some other meanderings and life events.

I have not chased any of the family from the 1850 census - those are all
from his first wife Mary - except for their daughter Harriet, who married
William G. Barkley in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1853. They went to Montana
in the 1860s - he was territorial treasurer of Montana 1868-1871. He died in
1884 and is buried in Beaverhead County, Montana; she died in 1900 and is
buried in San Diego. I have that certificate coming. So far I haven't been
able to get a Montana death certificate for 1884.

My main interest is in the issue of Jesse and his second wife, Susan Lavinia
Norton. They married in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1853; two of their
children were born in Kansas City, Missouri, before the family was evicted
from K.C. and they went to St. Louis. I believe the third daughter was born
in St. Louis, although I have not yet been able to confirm that. I have
chased her; found her married name but not her marriage; found her children,
their deaths, her husband's death and finally her death in Los Angeles in
1931. Interestingly, in the newspaper interview contained in the chapter 3
by Kim Riddlesbarger which you mentioned, she said she had no living
relatives; in fact she had nieces and a nephew in San Francisco.

Thanks for your interest and your help.

Marie

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