Robert Witherup and Jane Ridgeway

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Husband Robert Witherup ¹

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            AKA: Robert Witherop 2
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           Died: 1843 - Minnesota 2
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         Father: John Witherup (1762-1842/1843) 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Mary Brockington (1767-1835) 7 8

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Wife Jane Ridgeway ⁹

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            AKA: Jane Ridgway 2
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           Died: Abt 1890 - ? Crawford Co, PA
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         Father: Charles Ridgeway (1779-1854) 10
         Mother: Fanny Titus (      -1836) 11

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Children

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1 M John Witherup ⁹

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           Died:  - California
 Cause of Death: A falling tree
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2 M Peter Titus Witherup ⁹

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            AKA: Peter Titus Witherop 2 12
           Born: 18 Jun 1831 - Venango Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Olivia Barnsdale (      -Aft 1885) 12

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3 M Titus Witherup ⁹

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4 M Alexander Witherup ⁹

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Witherup

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He lived in Venango County, Pennsylvania, on the east side of the big Scrubgrass Creek near the mouth for a few years, until they migrated to Missouri. He accompanied a party on an exploring expedition up the Mississippi, and, being taken sick, he was left at an Indian village where a white missionary and his wife lived. When the rest of the party retuned they found that he had died and been buried, and so far as the family know his resting place is on the Red River. His wife returned to Pennsylvania and settled in Crawford County. [HVC 1919, 1065]

He was a river man, either rafting lumber or steamboating. He died in 1843 at Lake Pepin on the Mississippi. He had moved from Venango County to Iowa in 1837. After his death his widow came back to Hydetown, Crawford County, PA. [HCC 1899, 698]

He died on the Red River, Texas. [GPHAV, 1128]

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 989.

2 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 698.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 989, 1038.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 629, 1063.

5 James Brockington Witherup, History of John Witherup Family from 1762 to 1909 (Butler, PA: Ziegler Printing Co., 1909), Pg 1.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 321, 1127.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 629.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 321.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1065.

10 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 703.

11 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 295, 703.

12 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1089.