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went out on the porch and leaped down into the saddle of his waiting horse to make his escape.
According to a tale included in Ned and Elisabeth Johnson’s book of Rappahannock history, Eastham settled in West Virginia after the war. He was involved in an altercation with the son of a business rival, Frank Thompson, that erupted into violence. The story has it that Thompson wounded Eastham before Eastham fired back—through the pocket of his overcoat. When Thompson died two days later, “Bob Ridely’’ was charged with murder but was convicted of manslaughter at his trial nine months later. Sen^tenced to two years in the ■^county jail, Eastham supposedly escaped that night and headed back to Rappahannock with a posse at his heels.
When the West Virginia deputation reached the county line, they were met by a local resident who warned them that lots of posses had gone into Rappahannock but none had ever returned. Finding discretion to be the better part of valor, the posse turned back and “Bob Ridely” Eastham finished out his life in Flint Hill, dying at the age of 82 in
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