Benjamin Ringold Anderton, born in 1847. He never married. Ringold lived on 11.362 acres of land adjoining a similar tract belonging to his brother, Christopher Columbus Anderton, on North River, in Mathews County, Virginia They had inherited this property in 1895, from their uncle, Armistead Davis, Jr. whom they called "Uncle Army". It was the same land that their father, Benjamin, had once owned.
Ringold served as a private in the Confederate Army in Stark's Battalion, Armistead's Company of Light Artillery. He was present at the surrender at Appamattox Court House and received his parole papers as a prisoner of war on April 10, 1865. His brother, Columbus, was in the same battalion. Ringold died in October of 1924 at the age of 77, presumably from heart failure, after a lifetime of farming. As he lived alone, and some distance away from his niece and nephews, his body wasn't discovered for several days after his death, when "turkey buzzards" were seen circling over his house -- a sad end, to die alone.