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 1870 - 1946 (75 years)
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| Name |
John Robert Dandridge |
| Birth |
14 Jul 1870 |
Henry County, VA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
15 Feb 1946 |
Martinsville, VA |
| Person ID |
I22762 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Robert Bolling Dandridge, b. 6 Aug 1838, Henry County, VA d. 13 Feb 1907, Horsepasture, Henry County, VA (Age 68 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Susan Webster Rangeley, b. 30 Nov 1843, Stuart, VA d. 26 Sep 1936, Martinsville, VA (Age 92 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
Nov 1866 |
Henry County, VA |
| Family ID |
F8678 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- PARENTS: A History of Henry County Virginia, Judith Parks America Hill
[Broderbund WFT Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Tree #0089]
Lived in Stuart for a while (rented a room and, at one point, probably stayed with some of his mother's family). The daughter of the lady from whom he rented the room supplied the only known picture of John Robert Dandridge.
According to son Hugh, John Robert Dandridge attended medical school in Richmond, but dropped out after one year when he came down with typhoid. The disease left him slightly weakened in one leg and he had to wear a support stocking for the rest of his life.
Also according Hugh, he bought land at "Rock Run", a few miles up from Rangeley community where State Routes 683 and 924 intersect. The family's home was located at the top of a hill, close to the north-east corner of that intersection.
Daughter Elaine (Essie Mae) did not dispute Martha Anthony's statement that John Dandridge was a very soft-spoken man but, "he was hard on us [the children], but was [routinely] taken advantage of by others". She did not elaborate further. As far a being affectionate with the kids, Hugh said that his father was very fond of daughter Mary (he called her Polly) and that he would hug up son Harry, the baby of the family. He would ask them both into his "pen" formed with his legs and arms when he sat down.
Son Harry said that about the only thing he could remember about his father was his saying that "when he called to them in the morning, he better hear feet hitting the floor."
Hugh said that his father played the banjo ("strummed, rather than picked") and that he may have had or been in a [blue grass] band. Elizabeth said she remembered him warming up the "cow hide" on the banjo in front of the fire so he could play it. Again according to Hugh, John kept informed of political activities and would frequently visit with nearby black families to talk politics and to share some [corn] squeezings.
Hugh also said that his father went to church (Methodist) "fairly frequently." John's wife, a Primitive Baptist, did not go often since there was no P.B. church near by.
John Virgil Anthony, Jr. was a roommate with John R. Dandridge at Shackelford Hospital on Church St., Martinsville in 1946. He told his niece Martha A. Anthony that it was sad that so few family came to visit John Dandridge while he was hospitalized for pneumonia; complications which soon led to his death.
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