Attended 1907-1909
Birth: 2 Apr 1891, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 13 Nov 1973, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Parents:
Harris C. Crowell (1849-1919)
Lundy C. Furr Crowell (1854-1931)
Siblings:
Madie Corine Crowell Hahn (1876–1962)
James A. Crowell (1878–1879)
John Ivey Crowell (1881–1976)
Giles Edward Crowell Sr. (1884–1973)
Annie Margaret Crowell Sanders (1885–1958)
Charles M. Crowell (1887–1961)
Mary Lavinia Crowell Miller (1889–1973)
Sidney Harris Crowell (1893–1972)
Lee Smith Crowell (1896–1969)
Spouse: Lewis Caldwell Ridenhour (1889-1961)
Marriage: 10 Mar 1910, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Children:
Leah Catherine Ridenhour (1911–1924)
Elizabeth Irene Ridenhour Furr (1911–1987)
Ruth H. Ridenhour (1913–1913)
Helen Pless Ridenhour Alexander (1913–1994)
Frank Leonard Ridenhour Sr. (1916–1993)
Ruby Estelle Ridenhour Hood (1917–2007)
Lewis Caldwell Ridenhour Jr. (1921–1921)
Grace Geraldine Ridenhour Sherrill (1924–2017)
Burial: St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Source: www.findagrave.com, #70574086.
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Concord Tribune (Concord, NC), 20 Mar 1960, p. 11.
Ridenhours Celebrate 50th Anniversary
Saturday, March 19, 1906, Miss Gertrude Crowell of Mt. Pleasant and Lewis Ridenhour of the St. John’s community were married at Mt. Gilead Lutheran Church parsonage.
Officiating at his first matrimonial service was the Rev. L. D. Miller.
The Ridenhours moved to Concord five years after their marriage and are now residing at 689 S. Union St. They have four daughters, Mrs. Irene R. Weaver of Dunedin, Fla.; Mrs. M. M. Alexander of Decatur, Ga.; Mrs. B. H. Hood of Charlotte and Mrs. L. C. Sherrill of Concord; and a son, Frank L. Ridenhour also of Concord.
Saturday the Ridenhours celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Mr. Ridenhour, who is confined to his home with illness, is showing some improvement.
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Concord Tribune (Concord, NC), 13 Nov 1973, p. 6.
Mrs. Ridenhour
Mrs. Leah Gertrude Crowell Ridenhour, 82, of 761 Union St. S., died at a local nursing home this morning following 16 months illness.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. James Lutheran Church, where she was a member, and interment will follow in the St. John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Pastor T. C. Plexico will officiate.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 o’clock tonight at Wilkinson Funeral Home and will be at the residence during the remainder of the interim.
The family has requested that memorials be directed to the Memorial Fund of St. James Lutheran Church.
Mrs. Ridenhour was a native of Cabarrus County, daughter of the late Harris and Lunda Furr Crowell, and widow of the late Lewis Caldwell Ridenhour.
She was a graduate of Mont Amoena Seminary, Mt. Pleasant.
Surviving are four daughters; Mrs. Troy Furr of Greensboro, Mrs. M. M. Alexander of Decatur, Ga., Mrs. B. H. Hood of Charleston, S. C., and Mrs. Geraldine R. Sherrill of Concord; a son, Frank L. Ridenhour of Concord; a sister, Mrs. Lewis Miller of San Antonio, Tex.; a brother, John Crowell of the Lutheran Home, Albemarle; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
