RIDLEY, James Webb, 6 Oct 1893 - 17 May 1929, Death Cert shows burial May 18, 1929 in Rose Hill; shows burial May 18, 1929 in Rose Hill; but he is not shown among those buried at Rose Hill, s/o Madge Whitney & James W. Ridley.
Joseph Marcus Dedman's brother, Dr. James Edwin Dedman (buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Birmingham, AL) married Madge Whitney (Oaklawn). Madge had been married and divorced from James W. Ridley (Rose Hill), and at the time of their divorce there were two sons: James Webb Ridley (Jr., our subject) and George Whitney Ridley. The two sons were raised by Madge and Dr. Dedman, but eventually James Webb Ridley (Jr.) returned to his hometown in Columbia where he sold insurance.
I have attached the death certificate for James Webb Ridley (died May 17, 1929) which shows burial May 18, 1929 in Rose Hill; but he is not listed among those buried at Rose Hill. The Ridley family has some rather elaborate monuments there, but I wonder if he is in an unmarked grave in or around the Ridley plots.
While James Webb Ridley is an ancillary to my family research, I was curious about this. [Jim Dedman 4 Nov 2013]
Jim I offer no solutions as to where James Ridley is buried. I will post the listing to Rose Hill and maybe someone will come forward to offer an explanation as to why his grave is unmarked.
Also considering the stock market crash of 1929, though I think the worst of it occurred Oct 1929. Those were tough times coming off of the prosperity of the roaring 20s. It is as if we pay for prosperity with a run of impoverishment to match. This happened beginning in 1929 and the economic troubles did not really cease until WW II in 1941 when necessity came into play. Often governments try to make this economic boom & bust better by imposing autocracy which imposes a kind of equal impoverishment on all, such as happens in socialism and communism, and restricts freedom of choice. True wealth is brought out by the productivity of the citizenry from manufacturing & other forms of creating products and needed services. Too much government meddling in the affairs of the citizenry is never an answer, and it eventually restricts Gross National Product & expands poverty. A form of that is going on today in our country.
Information compiled by Jim Dedman. Political commentary by C. Wayne Austin. 5 Nov 2013
