The Great Wagon Road was the most important Colonial American route for settlers of the mountainous backcountry. It went from Philadelphia to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. One fork went to the Tennessee Valley and Knoxville and the other to the Piedmont Region of North Carolina.
Amelia married John Ringley. John was born about 1783 in Washington County, Virginia.
Amelia and John's children included:
Elijah Ringley (1803, married Sarah Hunsicker),
Elizabeth Ringley (1806),
Mary (Polly) Ringley (1808, married Hiram Smith),
Lewis Ringley (1810)
Margaret Ringley (1813, married John Shelley),
Jerial Ringley (1815, married Mary Fleenor daughter of Isaac and Margaret Fleenor),
Sarah Ringley (1820), and
John Ringley (1821, married Sarah Elizabeth Barker).
On January 16, 1810, Nicholas Hensley sold land on Steele Creek to John Ringley. In the Washington County, Virginia, Deed Book 5 1811-1814 there is also an indenture from John and Milly Ringley to Lewis Pitts.
At the time of the 1810 census in Washington County, Virginia there were two John Ringley households.
John Ringley Sen
one man 26-45,
one woman 16-26.
one boy age 10-16,
two girls under 10
John Ringley
one man 26-45,
one woman 26-45.
one boy and 2 girls under 10,
At the time of the 1820 Washington County census
one man age 26-45,
one woman 18-26.
one boy and 2 girls 10-16,
three boys and 2 girls under 10,
1830 Washington County
A man and a woman between 40-50
2 women females 20-30
a boy and a girl 15-20,
a boy and a girl 10-15,
one boy 5-10, one boy under age 5,
1840 Washington County
a man and a woman 50-60,
one man and a woman 20-30,
a boy age 15-20,
a girl 5-10
1850 Washington County
John Ringley 67
Amelia Ringley 69
Sarah Ringley 30
John Ringley 29
Margaret Ringley 16
Washington County, Virginia was formed from Fincastle County in 1777. It originally contained Sullivan County, Tennessee.
