WESLEY EUGENE PIPPENGER, b. St. Mary's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, son of

CHARLES WESLEY PIPPENGER, b. 7912 Montgall Street, Kansas City, Missouri, m. 7 June 1953 at Cleveland Avenue Methodist Church, Kansas City, Missouri, to Zora Eileene DAVISON, b. 1810 Cleveland, Kansas City, Missouri. Daughter of

CHESTER LEELAND DAVISON, b. 16 September 1901 at 2307 Agnes Street, Kansas City, Missouri, m. 11 October 1922 in Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas, to Velma Pearl Allen. Son of

CHARLES CONDUS DAVISON, b. 4 July 1853 in Clermont County, Ohio, m. 25 December 1884 in Moberly Randolph County, Missouri, to Florence Evelyn RIDGEWAY, b. 11 December 1863 near Corder, Lafayette County, Missouri. Daughter of

SAMUEL RIDGEWAY, b. 7 September 1804 in Lincoln County, Kentucky, m. (1) Fanny, m. (2) on 5 November 1855 (place undetermined) to Jennettie Fowler. Son of

AUSBORN RIDGEWAY, b. 1770 in Berkeley County, [West] Virginia, m. 29 September 1803 in Rowan County, North Carolina to Jane Phelps, daughter of John Phelps and Mary Williams. Son of

PHILIP RIDGEWAY, b. 1752, d. May 1794 in Salisbury District of Rowan County, North Carolina, served in the Revolutionary War. His wife was Mary [possibly Williams or Payne]. Son of

JOHN RIDGWAY, JR., b. 1 September 1716 in Prince George's County, Maryland, d. 1793 in Berkeley County, [West] Virginia, m. Mary Tenley, d. 1809, daughter of Philip Tenley and Grace Thomas. Son of

JOHN RIDGWAY, SR., planter, resided in Prince George's County, Maryland, d. after 1733, m. c.1712 to Elizabeth Simmons, daughter of Jonathan Simmons and Elizabeth Isaac.

No further information. Some speculation is found in a Ridgeway genealogy by Thurman Ridgway and Gertrude N. Brick, that John Ridgway was a son of Richard Ridgway of St. John's Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland.

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