Ancestry of
Edward Douglass White, Jr.

9th U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

Tench Ringgold

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• • Grandfather of Edward Douglass White, Jr. — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Ringgold 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Galloway   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Mar 1777 
  • Birth Location:
  • Chestertown, Kent, Maryland 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Jul 1844 
  • Death Location:
  • Washington, D.C. 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Aylett Lee
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Oct 1815 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Loudoun County, Virginia 
  • Child:

  Catherine Sidney Lee Ringgold (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • Tench Ringgold's birthdate is given on his tombstone as 03 MAR 1777.

• Additional marriages for Tench Ringgold

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Christian Lee
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Apr 1799

• Sources for Tench Ringgold

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/28/2020).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, p. 66.
  • ³ Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850, Marriage record for Tench Ringold and Mary A Lee.
  • ⁴ Bowman, Fred Q., 10,000 Vital Records of Central New York, 1813-1850, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1986), Death record for Tench Ringgold in Washington, D.C..
  • ⁵ Highsaw, Robert B., Edward Douglass White: Defender of the Conservative Faith, Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press (1981), 16.
  • ⁶ Hodges, Frances Beal Smith, The Genealogy of the Beale Family 1399-1956, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers, Inc. (1956), 50.
  • ⁷ Lee, Edmund Jennings, Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee . . ., Philadelphia: (1895), 317.
  • ⁸ Pecdquet du Bellet, Louise, Some Prominent Virginia Families. Volume II, Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company (1907), 240.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 105.
  • ¹⁰ Thomas, Lawrence Buckley, Genealogical Notes: Part Second, Baltimore: Lawrence B. Thomas (1878), 23, gives Tench's birthdate as 06 MAR 1776.
  • ¹¹ Thomas, Lawrence Buckley, The Thomas Book: Giving the Genealogies of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G., the Thomas Family Descended from . . ., New York: The Henry T. Thomas Company (1896), 480, gives Tench's birthdate as 06 MAR 1776.