Individual Details

Baptized St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church, South, St. Louis, Missouri, 18 May 1920. Parents listed as M. E. Holderness & Mrs. Eunice Jackson Holderness. Minister, Ivan Lee Holt.

7 Sep 1936. The Queen Mary, sailed from Cherbourg, arriving the Port of New York. Passengers included:
Mannie B. Jackson, 66, b. Memphis, TN, 21 Sep 1870, residence, 3606 West End Ave, Nashville. (Eunice's grandmother)
Eunice Holderness, 18, b. Nashville, TN, b. 16 Aug 1918, residence: St. Louis, MO

Eunice sailed on the "S. S. Monarch of Bermuda" departing from Hamilton, Bermuda, 2 Apr 1937, arriving in New York 4 Apr 1937. She was age 19, born 1918 in Nashville, TN.
Her address was 17 Wyclaron Terrace, St. Louis, MO

29 Dec 1941. Engagement Announced
Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Early Holderness of St. Louis, MO, announce the engagement of their daugher, Eunice Jackson Holderness, to William Pillow Ridley Jr. of Columbia, TN.
Miss Holderness is the granddaughter of the late Dr. Mrs. A. S. Holderness of Fordyce, Mrs. Robert F. Jackson of Nashville TN and a niece of Mrs. John R. Hampton [Sarah Virginia Holderness] of Little Rock, H. I. Holderness of Pine Bluff, and Miss Minnie Holderness of Fordyce, and was a visitor in Arkansas last summer.
She graduated from Mary Institute & Vassar College. She made her debut at a ball given by her parents at the St. Louis Woman's Club and was special maid of honor at the Veiled Prophet's Ball that year. She is a member of the Junior League.
Mr. Ridley, the son of William P. Ridley, graduated from the University of Tennessee and resides at Clifton Place, the historic family home near Nashville, TN. He is a member of Bellemeade Country Club.

St Louis Post-Dispatch, 13 Mar 1942, Friday, p.25
Pre-Wedding Parties
Miss Eunice Jackson Holderness, daughter of Mr & Mrs. Marvin Early Holderness and William Pillow Ridley Jr. who will be married tomorrow night, are being honored at pre-wedding parties in addition to a long series given previously for the bride-elect.....

Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002, Ancestry.com
Married in St. Louis, 14 Mar 1942. The bride was 24; the groom 35.
Also recorded at St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church South, St. Louis, MO. Married by Rev. John B. Peters.

Married William P. Ridley, Jr. Two children, Eunice Jackson Ridley born 9 Jan 1944, and William Pillow Ridley III, born 28 Dec 1945.

In 1948, they were living in Columbia, TN
City Directory: W. P. Ridley Jr. (Eunice) RFD 1

1950 Census. Maury Co, TN, Hh 150
William P. Ridley, 43, b. TN, Farmer
Eunice H., wife, 33, b. TN
Eunice J., dau, 6, b. TN
William P. III, son, 4, b. TN

The Nashville Tennessean, Nashville, TN, Friday, 21 Mar 1980
W. P. Ridley Jr. Services Today
Columbia, Tenn - services for William P. Ridley Jr., 72, of Columbia, a farmer and former president of Maury County Tobacco Warehouse Co. will be at 11 am today at First Presbyterian Church.
Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Ridley died Wednesday at his home.
...Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eunice Holderness Ridley; a daughter Mrs. Rupert M. Colmore, Cashiers, NC; a son William P. Ridley III, St. Louis; a brother, Campbell Ridley, Columbia; a sister Mrs. Charlie Jewell, Columbia, and four grandchildren.

According to Holderness descendant Eunice remarried after William Ridley's death and as of the summer of 2001, she was in a nursing home. Daughter Eunice lives in Franklin, TN.

St Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, 10 Apr 2007, Tuesday
Ridley, Eunice Jackson Holderness, 89, long-time resident of the Ridley Farm on Mr. Pleasant Pike, died Easter Sunday, April 8, 2007.
....Born August 16, 1917 in Nashville, she was the daughter of the late Eunice Baxter Jackson Holderness and Marvin Early Holderness. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where she attended John C. Burroughts School and graduated from Mary Institute. ...She continued her education at Vassar College.
She was married March 14, 1942 to William Pillow Ridley. mr. Ridley was a prominent Maury County farmer for many years and preceded her in death in 1980.
....Survivors include her daughter, Eunice Ridley (Rupert) Colmore of Duck River; her son William Pillow (Charlotte) Ridley of St Louis; five grandchildren, Eunice Colmore (Doug) Rodman of Duck River, Dale Colmore (Spencer) Dominick of Wilsall, Montana, Mary Colmore (Larry) Beaty of Nashville, Caroline Elizabeth Ridley of Riverside, CA, Nathan William Ridley of St. Louis; four great-grandchildren, Thomas Colton Duncan, Perrin Pullman Dominick, Susannah Colmore Rodman, and Rupert "Mac" Rodman.

Birth	16 Aug 1917	Tennessee
Baptism	18 May 1920	Saint John's ME Church, South, Saint Louis, Missouri
Marriage	14 Mar 1942	Saint Louis, Missouri - William Pillow Ridley Jr
Death	8 Apr 2007	Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee

Spouse	William Pillow Ridley Jr (1907 - 1980)
Child	Living
Child	Living

Father	Marvin Early Holderness (1877 - 1975)
Mother	Eunice Baxter Jackson (1893 - 1970)
Sibling	Marvin E. Holderness Jr. (1921 - 1976)