Mary C. Ridenour ¹

   Another name for Mary was Mary Reitenauer.³

   FamilySearch ID: 99TQ-3K6.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Mifflin Twp., Franklin, OH. ¹ George Ridenour, farmer, 58, was living with wife Mary, 50; Daniel, farmer, 27; Elizabeth, 25; David, farmer, 19; William, farmer, 16; Reuben, 13; James, 10; Mary, 6. Also with them is Mary Starret, 82. George's farm was worth $3,500. The next household is John Ridenour, farmer, 23, and his wife Anna, 21. His farm has no value so he is living on father George's land. George was born in Maryland, John in Ohio, and everyone else in Pennsylvania.

2. Census in 1870 in Bourbon, Marshall, IN. ⁴ The 1870 census recorded Aaron Bell, farmer, 30, living with wife Mary C., 25; son Wm. T., 4; and son George A., 1. Everyone was born in Indiana except Mary in Ohio. Aaron had no real estate value, but his wife Mary had $1000. Their post office was Bourbon. On the previous census page is Mary's sister, Elizabeth (Ridenour) Beecher living with husband Peter Beecher.

3. Indiana Hospital for Insane census in 1880 in Indianapolis, Marion, IN. The 1880 census recorded Mary C. Bell, 36, as a patient in the Indiana Hosptial for the Insane. She was born in Ohio.

4. Book: Geneaology of the Ridenour Family, 1908. ⁵
Mary, youngest child of George and Mary Ridenour, married Aaron Bell. To them were born five children: William, living; George, living; Irene, living. Two died young. Irene married Harvey McCoy. They have four children.

Mary married Aaron Bell on 30 Nov 1865 in , Marshall, IN. (Aaron Bell was born on 3 Aug 1840 in Van Buren Twp., Kosciusko, IN,^{4 6 7} died on 27 Jan 1921 in Milford, Kosciusko, IN ^{6 7} and was buried on 31 Jan 1921 in Milford: Milford Cemetery, Kosciusko, IN ^{6 7}.)