Hampton Mansion

A memorial service for John Ridgely III, a direct descendant of the builder of Towson's 18th-century Hampton Mansion and the last to live on the estate, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 Allegheny Ave., Towson.Mr. Ridgely died Sunday at College Manor of congestive heart failure. He was 79.He had lived since the late 1940s at his home, Spring Hollow, which he built on the Hampton property. The house was built about the time his father turned the Hampton Mansion, which dated to 1790, over to the National Park Service in 1948.

John Ridgely III, a direct descendant of the builder of Towson's 18th-century Hampton Mansion and the last to live on the estate, died Sunday at College Manor of congestive heart failure. He was 79.A memorial service for Mr. Ridgely was being held today at Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 Allegheny Ave., Towson.He had lived since the late 1940s at his home, Spring Hollow, which he built on the Hampton property. The house was built about the time his father turned the Hampton Mansion, which dated to 1790, over to the National Park Service in 1948.

John Ridgely III, 79, a direct descendant of the builder of Towson's 18th-century Hampton Mansion and the last to live on the estate, died of congestive heart failure Sunday at College Manor.A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 Allegheny Ave., Towson. Burial will be in the Hampton burial grounds.Mr. Ridgely had lived since the late 1940s at his home, Spring Hollow, which he built on the Hampton property. The house was built about the time his father turned over the Hampton Mansion to the National Park Service in 1948.