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Acts uilij icmuvc tuiupoicu to the lives of others. Once in a while, he would do something outrageous at the court house in Washington or in the Flint Hill area. He loved to go hunting and always took a youthful companion with him,” his great nephew reported. “One of the most outstanding features of these years was his relationship with young people. Testimony of older people today in Rappahannock who knew him when they were children confirms, without exception, that they adored him. By some process, this old warrior who had ridden with Mosby captured their imagination and affections. Unfortunately, I never really knew him although on one occasion, I met him. It is my very first memory — sitting in my father’s lap on the steps of the brick house during a Sunday visit in Washington with the old man in a rocking chair on the porch. Bob Ridley thus left an endelible impression on me when I was just three years of age!” Eastham added.
“Finally, at age 82, the old man suffered a stroke and fell from his horse into a cold stream while returning to his home. He died shortly thereafter, on April 9, 1924, from complications which developed and is buried alongside his wife, Mollie, in the Eastham graveyard behind Buena Vista where he was bom in 1842 — just before a whole way of life was to disappear in the gunsmoke of many battlefields,”
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